Lo’s Lactation Lab

Have you been made to feel like the person who knows your baby best by the medical care providers that you have hired to advise you on how to help you care for your babies? If not, how did the care providers make you feel? It turns out this phenomenon has been studied in the lactation field and those who help you with lactation can either help build your self-efficacy or make you feel like you are...

Amy was a NICU nurse before she was a parent, and she still didn’t know what she didn’t know when it came to breastfeeding. She has five human milk feeding experiences to share, all VERY DIFFERENT. From the perfect first experience to low supply to the second, most likely due to a stressful work environment and a misunderstanding about the difference between pumping supply and at-the-body supply,...

If you have ever struggled to feel organized while breastfeeding or chestfeeding in the hospital after giving birth and wondered why you and your baby felt out of sync and out of sorts, there might be a reason. Today IBCLC Lo NIgrosh and host of the Milk Making Minutes discusses 5 simple yet often overlooked adjustments that anyone can make to give yourself a better likelihood of learning to feed...

Did you have to readjust your expectations of what baby feeding looked like for your family? Did you have anyone reminding you that each journey is different and each baby is different? My guest Kelly Smith had spent 10 years as a meditation instructor before becoming a parent and had a lot of practice learning to tune into her inner voice, but she still needed help from friends, her partner and a...

Do you want to continue nursing your baby to sleep, but are also hoping to find a way to get more sleep? Are you looking for some out of the box thinking that might impact your whole family so that you can all achieve a calmer nighttime routine and improve sleep for years to come? On this episode IBCLC and host Lo Nigrosh discusses: Ways to change your routine so that you have more time to sleep W...

Did you feel frazzled at your first pediatrician’s appointment? Did you cling to your baby feeding goals because your birth didn’t turn out the way you hoped? Kaitlin McGreyes of Be Her Village tells three very different breastfeeding stories that showed varying levels of support. But one thing rang true throughout– the levels of support she felt and didn’t feel made it clear that she wanted to ch...

Have you been nursing your baby to sleep and now you are worried you are creating a bad habit? Do your instincts regarding your baby’s sleep often conflict with the advice you get from friends, family members, and even doctors? Do you have anxiety around creating a poor sleep association around nursing to sleep? On this episode IBCLC and host Lo Nigrosh discusses: How humans are classified as it r...

Did you start using formula almost within weeks or days of your baby being born? Did that feel like the best choice for your family? Did you have cultural or familial practices which helped you feel supported during the postpartum period regardless of your feeding choices? My guest Sirisha, tech executive turned podcaster and entrepreneur dredges up her memories of those early baby feeding days to...

Have you ever been surprised by the birth of a preterm infant? Or perhaps you work with families in the perinatal period and want to know better how to support them after preterm deliveries. There are many outdated practices that continue in the NICU for preterm babies that make feeding human milk more difficult. On this episode IBCLC and host Lo Nigrosh discusses: Outdated practices that get appl...

Have you been surprised by how you ended up feeding your babies? Were you able to make those decisions with confidence? Did you have barriers to breastfeeding or chestfeeding that dictated you switch to bottle feeding? My guest Jess, a postpartum doula and Certified Sleep Consultant shares three very different baby feeding stories that led her to changing careers to support other families. This ep...

Has your breastfeeding, chestfeeding or pumping journey been much more difficult than you ever dreamed it could be? Is feeding time filled with anxiety around milk supply, or do you dread feeding your baby due to pain or some other difficulty? Have you struggled to enjoy your baby as you deeply desire because feeding has been so hard, but you’ve been afraid to change the feeding plan? This episode...

Did you try breastfeeding or chestfeeding or pumping only to be disappointed that you were not able to meet your original goals? Did you seek out all the support you could find and you still didn’t meet the “success” you were looking for? This episode is for anyone who has grieved over the milk making journey. My guest Sydney’s baby was a little over four months old at the time of this recording,...

Were you given a nipple shield by a nurse or a lactation consultant in the hospital? Does the nipple shield feel cumbersome or stressful, and now you are wondering how you can wean off of it? Or perhaps you are someone who works with families in the postpartum period, like a doula or a pediatrician and you would like some pointers about how to help families wean from the nipple shield. This episod...

Do you have strong feelings about pumping? Do you love or hate it? Have you had a lot of success with pumping, or do you feel frustrated by your output? If you are a perinatal care provider, what are the personal attitudes that you bring to your support role inadvertently? Today you meet Dr. Dianna of Pump with Purpose. She became an exclusive pumper by accident with her first baby, but decided th...

Often when there is an extra complication like an illness, a disability, or a rare disease, human milk feeding can be made more difficult because well-meaning care providers don’t always provide the latest evidence based information. When early human milk feeding gets interrupted by outdated policies, this can have long lasting implications for the parent and the baby. Today’s episode focuses on D...

Here on The MIlk Making MInutes we explore barriers that make feeding human milk difficult. I hear all too often that partners or families are not supportive of breastfeeding/chestfeeding/or pumping. So today, on Valentine’s Day, I wanted to honor those people in our lives who love us so much that they help us to prioritize making milk for our babies in practical and emotional ways. You will hear...

Was breastfeeding or chestfeeding made more difficult for you by a feeling of not being yourself after your birthing experience? Was your recovery made more difficult by an inability to rest due to extra doctor’s appointments that required you to shuffle around? Megan, a doula and childbirth educator shares her two breastfeeding experiences. The first experience was made more difficult due to a di...

Having you been pumping for a period of days, weeks, months or years and are now ready to stop? It doesn’t matter how much milk you’ve made– you did an amazing thing by pumping milk, and only YOU know when it is time to stop. If it is time to wean from the pump, there are several approaches you can take! Lo Nigrosh, IBCLC and mother of two breastfed babies and toddlers (who are now elementary aged...

Jen Larimore is a Mom First and lawyer turned life coach who realized that in order for whatever she was doing to work for herself and for her family, that she had to be able to find some amount of joy. She has five children, and five very different breastfeeding stories, and over time she learned to ask for the support she needed. On this episode you will hear Jen discuss: How decisions in the ho...

Are you feeling ready to be done with your nursing journey? This is part one of two part series on weaning. Next week will be all about weaning from the pump which has different considerations. If you are feeling ready to wean from feeding your baby from your own body no matter how long you have breastfed or chestfed, this episode is for you. Lo Nigrosh, IBCLC and mother of two breastfed babies an...

Tanya Tringali was 19 when she was pregnant and 20 when she had her baby. It took one visit with an OBGYN who didn’t treat her with respect over twenty years ago to realize there must be a better way than the traditional system of birthing– and she marched into Barnes and Nobles to read about birth. It was this decision that changed the course of her life. She not only delivered that baby at a fre...

Do you feel like the breastfeeding class at the hospital prepared you for feeding your baby? Did you wish you had more individualized care? Did you know that you can meet with a private practice IBCLC during pregnancy? On this episode IBCLC Lo Nigrosh helps listeners understand how you can find a private practice IBCLC that will support your baby feeding goals. This episode also discusses: Insuran...

Have you ever had the experience of thinking everything was going well in the postpartum period, and then suddenly, it wasn’t? Did you think the postpartum period would be a straight line to better breastfeeding, better sleep, understanding parenting more and discover that it’s definitely more of a wiggly line? My guest Deb Flashenberg, owner of The Prenatal Yoga Center and host of the Yoga Birth...

Are you afraid your baby or toddler is weaning before you are ready? Are they refusing to nurse no matter what you do? Do you want to know what to do in this situation in case it ever happens to you? This week IBCLC Lo Nigrosh helps you understand the difference between early weaning and a nursing strike, explains why nursing strikes happen, and gives some problem solving tips for getting past the...

Were you given a set of guidelines by nurses or lactation professionals that felt like rules? Did you ever need to stray from those guidelines in order to do what was best for your individual situation? As a professional dancer, Janet was accustomed to getting a set of rules and then following them, so it was surprising when she realized her lactation situation dictated that she she change the pla...