Kate - the journey of re-lactation, diagnosis of thyroid cancer whilst pregnant with baby no 3, and incredibly different breasfeeding journeys
Kate is an endorsed midwife and IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) based in Australia. She is passionate about a no bull-s**t approach to feeding and motherhood, and ultimately supporting families to have their most empowered experience as they transition into parenthood. Kate has honestly shared her own feeding and motherhood struggles through her work in Milky Business. Most recently, this journeyed her through a cancer diagnosis early in her third pregnancy, managing tongue ties, expressing, weaning, cancer treatment and re-lactation.
In this episode we discuss
- Being a midwife and ‘still’ getting shredded nipples. Finding out her baby had a posterior tongue tie and dealing with the lack of support in this area.
- How feeding her second daughter was beautifully redemptive breastfeeding experience.
- In Kate’s words how “third time round was the ultimate shit show that we made sunshine out of”.
- Kate shares how whilst she was tandam feeding her two daughters she got a diagnosis of thyroid cancer in the first trimester of pregnancy number three.
- We delve in to dealing with cancer surgery, treatment and being told you can’t breastfeed.
- Kate discusses how coming to terms with the idea of not breastfeeding her last baby was a shattering embodiment and she was determined to find a way through. This is where Kate shares her story of re-lactation, pumping, storage of milk, finding high lipase in the expressed breast milk and realising she cannot use it, using donor expressed breast milk, feeding at the breast, the moments of absolute joy and getting to a point where she looks back exceptionally proud and with a full heart.
Kate has gracefully shared her story, filed with insights and warmth of heart. This episode will make you cry but it will also uplift you at the powers of the human mind, body and spirit.
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