When Breastfeeding Doesn't Go As Planned with Claire Rodriguez

Welcome to This Episode where Claire and Elly chat about:

• Breastfeeding Grief and Trauma
• Her personal journey with breastfeeding her daughter which ended at 6 weeks.
• the trauma of not breastfeeding IS a thing, and effected her deeply. 
• How birth trauma and breastfeeding trauma is the same yet different.
• Women who do not accomplish their breastfeeding goals often feel like their bodies have failed them and why that’s often a false narrative.
• What constitutes as a true breastfeeding problem and what’s often just a lack of support.
• Elly’s personal journey with breastfeeding which is a wide range of different experiences.
• We talk about tongue ties in our children and what we’ve learned along the way about ties and the most useful resources we’ve found.
• Using the Internet to get us through breastfeeding issues, the good the bad and the ugly.
• True low supply issues and potential causes.
• Using breastfeeding covers or not.
• The Gorilla who was taught to breastfeed by humans. The moral of the story is breastfeeding needs to be taught to younger women through witnessing.
• Biologically, seeing each other breastfeeding is the best and most natural way for us to learn how to breastfeed! Not when we’re having our own babies for the first time.
• The benefits of breastmilk for moms and babies. Also the fascinating intelligence of how the Breast and breast milk changes to meet each baby’s hourly, daily, monthly change in needs.
• Fed is Best vs Breast is Best vs Support is Best.
• Breastfeeding and formula feeding with in 1st world vs 3rd world countries.
• How the act of breastfeeding helps to develop our muscleskeletal, dental, breathing and air ways.
• The pros and cons to bed sharing while breastfeeding and how the risk of SIDS might be decreased.
• Her career in peer to peer support while women go through their breastfeeding grief.
• What adequate support for women should look like.
• What processing her grief has looked like and the raw emotions of failure and inadequacy.
• What to say (and what not to say) to women who are struggling with breastfeeding.
• Mothers deserve and are worthy of support for breastfeeding grief.
• The messages that women are constantly bombarded with, around not being able to trust or love our bodies and how that effects breastfeeding, birthing, mothering and all aspects of being female).
• The root cause of women not achieving their breastfeeding goals is failing social structure and support.
• To find Claire, work with her 1:1 or to join her virtual breastfeeding grief circles : https://www.theprimaldyad.com  and her IG https://www.instagram.com/theprimaldyad/