Breastfeeding and Returning to Work: A Practical Guide for New Parents
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This episode discusses the challenges and strategies for breastfeeding while returning to work, featuring expert insights from Lactation Expert Rowena Gray.
This week on Parents You’ve Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast we are discussing breastfeeding and returning to work. Can you return to work while breastfeeding? What policies can you put into place with your workplace to make this possible? We ask Lactation Expert Rowena Gray these questions and more.Rowena Gray is an IBCLC, Midwife, Author and Mama to three beautiful girls.In this episode we discuss:- How common it is for working Mamas to return to work whilst still breastfeeding- If you need to pump to maintain your supply and continue breastfeeding when returning to work- If some partners/careers bring baby to work so the mother can feed instead of expressing- How to express breast milk and breastfeed- If workplaces need to allow time and a place to make expressing possible. We discuss the regulations or government policies around this- How babies cope with feeding when mothers return to work. Do babies get confused or develop a bottle preference if you provide milk in a bottle when you are at work?- How to store breast milk at work- If pumping and breastfeeding at work cuts down your supply- How to return to work part time, if you want to breastfeed on the…
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