Susie Prout

The Australian Breastfeeding Podcast

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Each week, Susie Prout, a Registered Midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, will interview new mothers on their breastfeeding journeys. Susie will unpack all things breastfeeding; whether that be expressing, mixed feeding, going back to work, moving on when breastfeeding doesn't work out. If it has to do with feeding your baby - Susie will cover it! This podcast is for mums to be to learn about the everyday issues surrounding feeding your baby, this is for new mothers to understand that we are all going through the same issues and we are all coming through on the other...

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5. Painful attachment, frequent feeding and exhaustion, with Penny Blunden 23.10.2019 30:32

In this episode I interview Penny Blunden. Penny shares her breastfeeding journeys with her 2 little boys Rex and Jack. Penny breastfed both her boys for about a year, however she explains the hardships she had to go through in the early months, which included frequent feeding day and night, a bout of very painful attachment and exhaustion. Penny had severe hyperemesis with both her pregnancies an...

4. Prematurity, learning to feed in the NICU, and expressing, with Helen Nightingale 16.10.2019 31:38

In this episode I interview Helen. Helen is a Registered Midwife and is also the mum of one year old Emilia. Helen had a high risk pregnancy, being diagnosed with pre eclampsia and delivered her baby by caesarean section at 35 weeks, Emilia was born weighing in at just 1.6kg. I asked Helen to be a guest on the podcast as I knew she would be able to give the listeners some insight into learning to...

3. Silent reflux, initial weight loss and baby led verse mother led weaning, with your host Susie Prout 09.10.2019 29:51

In this episode, rather than interviewing a guest, I am telling you my story of breastfeeding my three children. I will share my struggles with a delay in milk supply, which resulted in baby weight loss above the normal cut off and how I worked through that. I will share my journey with my first baby having silent reflux who was medicated and how some family and friends saw an unhappy baby and imm...

2. Delayed milk production, demand feeding and living away from loved ones, with Lucy Cox 02.10.2019 18:45

In this episode I interview Lucy. Lucy is a mother of 3 boys, having successfully breastfed them all. She lets us in on her journey of delayed milk production early on, to the truths of demand feeding and how that really looks, to breastfeeding in public as an expat in different countries. We discuss breastfeeding goals and how they can change between children. Lucy is currently still breastfeedin...

1. Tongue tie, mastitis and extended breastfeeding with Zahra Bowden Thioune 25.09.2019 20:31

In this episode I interview a mother of 2 boys Zahra. Zahra lets us in on her breastfeeding journey with her first son, which included a tongue tie revision, mastitis which resulted in a breast abscess and initial problems with weight gain and attachment. She went on to successfully breastfeed her first son for over a year. Her second breastfeeding experience was very different from her first. It...

0. Introduction to the Australian Breastfeeding Podcast 12.09.2019 3:10

In this introduction, your host Susie Prout will tell you a little bit about herself and her expertise and how this podcast is going to unfold. We need to talk about breastfeeding more, everyday breastfeeding issues, candidly and honestly. Tune in every Thursday for another episode.