Moms Off The Record

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Whether your goal is to prevent or plan pregnancy, and better yet you want to avoid non-evidenced based, toxic, and synthetic methods, you NEED to listen to this.

Carly Hartwig (@cleanlivingwithcarly) and I discuss:
Why is the fertility awareness method an evidence-based, effective way of preventing or planning for pregnancy? How does it differ from the rhythm method? What about Natural Family Planning?
What's the difference between the Billings, Justisse, and Marquette methods, and why did Carly choose to become certified in Justisse?
Why are women accidentally becoming pregnant when using the app Natural Cycles? What about when wearing condoms?
Are vasectomies and "non-hormonal" IUDs really harmless?
How do we want to introduce FAM to our daughters?
Is perimenopause real? What are the symptoms?
Is HRT (hormone-replacement therapy) always bad?)

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I sat down with Aaron Siri, Managing Partner of the NYC-based law-firm Siri & Glimstad specializing in vaccine injury, RFK Jr.s attorney during his presidential campaign, and the author of Vaccines, Amen the Religion of Vaccines.
We discuss
the conflicts of interest between the nation's leading vaccinologists, vaccine manufacturers, and the United States government.
how vaccine manufacturers were able to get away with administering medical products that have never been proven to be safe
what is fundamentally wrong with the clinical trials performed for vaccines
myths and lies we've been fed about how vaccines are responsible for saving lives
the legal process that occurs when a parent sues for a vaccine injury
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Today I chat with my second-cousin Megan who is a younger yet ever so wise Millennial toddler mom and Renaissance woman. Our moms are first cousins. Megan has worked as a doula and now runs a doula placement agency in Southern California. She’s also a mom to a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, an IBCLC, and a Nurse Practitioner. 
Have you heard of the company Carrot? Women who are not even adequately trained to be postpartum doulas are able to bypass the necessary time and in-person training it takes in order to become one in order to get their piece of the pie. Why is this problematic? When families hire a postpartum doula, the expectation is that the entire family unit will be cared for including the home. There is an expectation that breastfeeding support will be offered and that the postpartum doula is actually knowledgeable about breastfeeding. Instead, women are able to claim the title of postpartum doula while actually stepping into the misleading role of overnight nanny or newborn care specialist.
During this episode, I also ask Megan for her nuanced opinions on bottle and pacifier usage (it’s not so black-and-white!). We discuss what is really attributing to textbook low supply.
We delve into a breastfeeding technique I had never heard of before called “reverse cycling” and why we think it’s so seldom discussed. It’s typically used as a strategy for moms who must return to work and don’t want to affect their supply or offer formula, so they hold off on nursing all day and then nurse truly on-demand all throughout the night. It does require bedsharing in order to be successful.
I ask her what is the worst breastfeeding advice she’s ever heard as someone who is trained as an IBCLC, a Nurse Practitioner, a former doula and a toddler mom who is still nursing.
Despite having to return to work outside the home (part-time for 12 hour shifts!), Megan is still successfully nursing her 3.5 year old.

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In this solo, I discuss why I chose to nightwean each of my children when I did and how I returned to my "why" when staying committed to nightweaning felt hard in the middle of the night.

I explain which strategies worked vs. which didn't. Why I nightweaned my son at 21 months old vs. my daughter at 17 months old and what it meant for each of their breastfeeding relationships with me.

Each of my children, as I'm sure each of yours, have such different temperaments. There is no one-size-fits-all nightweaning blueprint. A lot of it is a mix of your maternal intuition coupled with some trial and error. There are general guidelines of definitive nos and yes's with the process, but there is no bypassing the hard parts. Like with any other challenging milestone, it must be met head on. This is something I kind of learned the hard way.

I explain when I believe it is developmentally inappropriate vs. appropriate to night wean and when the benefits of nightweaning outweigh the benefits of night nursing. I also talk about how and when your husband can get on board with helping.

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Elena Bridgers is a mother of two, science writer and researcher with a focus on maternal health and well-being, examined through the lens of evolutionary mismatch.
Her personal journey of finding motherhood challenging after choosing to have two-under-two and going through extreme sleep deprivation led her to ask why this is so hard. How did our ancestors do this?
While Elena is a big fan of Michaeleen Doucleff, author of "Hunt, Gather, Parent," she points out that Michaeleen's focus is on parenting strategies whereas Elena examines the social context in which our ancestors mothered.
In this episode we discuss, from a hunter-gatherer evolutionary perspective:
interpregnancy intervals
breastfeeding as birth control
weaning from nursing
tandem feeding
the tradwife movement and having very large families
Bedsharing vs. sleep training
Alloparenting, "free" childcare, and the nuance with daycare
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