Jessica's story - inverted nipples, breastfeeding grief and finding solutions
About this episode
Jessica Baker shares her experiences with breastfeeding challenges and the emotional impact of not meeting her feeding goals.
This week I’m joined from Sydney in Australia, by midwife Jessica Baker to talk about breastfeeding her two daughters and the grief and mental health impact when feeding doesn’t go to plan. Jessica describes anticipating difficulty due to inverted nipples, having a home birth with Vada followed by special care admission, early nipple-shield use, severe engorgement, and missed support because staff assumed she was confident as a midwife. After a tongue and lip tie release with a laser, Vada’s ...
People in this episode
Host: Emma Pickett
Guest: Jessica Baker
Topics covered
- breastfeeding
- mental health
- inverted nipples
- home birth
- support
- grief
Keywords
- breastfeeding
- inverted nipples
- mental health
- home birth
- nipple shield
- tongue tie
- support
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Sydney, Australia
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