Makes Milk with Emma Pickett

This podcast explores the challenges of weaning a booby monster, including motivations for weaning, nursing manners, and cutting down on feeds. It discusses empowering children, alternative ways to respond to breastfeeding requests, and strategies for weaning. The importance of supporting emotional needs during the weaning process is emphasized, along with the upcoming book on weaning.

Explore night weaning and different methods like Dr. Jay Gordon's and Lyndsey Hookway's approach. Leaving your nursling overnight is not an effective strategy for weaning. Challenges cultural expectations of uninterrupted sleep and encourages reevaluating assumptions about a child's sleep patterns. Night-weaning may improve parental sleep but not necessarily the child's. Strategies include storytelling, singing, white noise machines, and involving the child in choosing a nighttime friend. Prepare the child, create alternative associations for falling asleep, and provide emotional support during the night weaning process. Seek professional help for sleep issues.

Explore the natural age of weaning, nursing strikes, the emotional experience of weaning, personal reflections on self-weaning, finding joy in the weaning process, and the complexities of child-led weaning.

This podcast explores the decision to wean from breastfeeding/chest feeding, including societal pressures and guilt. It discusses options for breastfeeding parents needing medical treatment and the importance of considering alternative medications. The podcast also addresses continuing breastfeeding while returning to work, choosing guilt over resentment in motherhood, and the importance of authenticity and self-care in the weaning process.

The podcast celebrates the breastfeeding journey, acknowledging the challenges faced during the pandemic. It discusses the numerous benefits of breastfeeding, including health and psychosocial advantages. The importance of body autonomy, consent, and setting boundaries is highlighted. The podcast emphasizes the significance of celebrating the breastfeeding journey, suggesting activities and emphasizing the need for support and admiration among women.

Welcome to Makes Milk with Emma Pickett. We'll begin weekly episodes in September, but in the meantime, you can subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts.Follow me on Twitter @MakesMilk and on Instagram  @emmapickettibclc or find out more on my website www.emmapickettbreastfeedingsupport.comThis podcast is presented by Emma Pickett IBCLC, and produced by Emily Crosby Media.