About Milk and Motherhood | growing in person and spirit into the mothers we long to be
A podcast companion for moms searching for contentment, wholeness, confidence, & strength in a season that can feel lonely, overwhelming, exhausting, & depleting.
I interview guest experts on physical, mental, & emotional health needs of mothers and children. We will also dig into the theology of motherhood, contentment, and loving boundaries through the lens of birth, postpartum, breastfeeding, and matrescence.
49. What to Expect in the First Week of Breastfeeding
I've gotten this question several times recently, and this was the easiest way to answer it! Please share with your pregnant or newly postpartum friends who are working hard to breastfeed, because how you handle the first week really establishes your long-term breastfeeding trajectory <3
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Looking for more help? Visit my website happymamahealthybaby.co (https://theresedansby.wixsite.com/therese) to see what your options are, and don't forget to follow along on Instagram @happy.mama.healthy.baby (https://www.instagram.com/happy.mama.healthy.baby/) <3
12 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
48. Hypermobility and Breastfeeding
I once had a PT tell me to stop breastfeeding if I ever wanted my pelvic pain to go away. I'm so glad I didn't listen to her. Now I know my pain was from POTS, hypermobility, endometriosis, and, yes, some core weakness. So when we eventually weaned, the pain didn't go away. I'm forever grateful I did it on my timeline and not hers.
I want you to know more about your body and your breastfeeding experinece and this episode is one of the (almost 100!) breastfeeding-specific episodes in Earbud IBCLC (https://www.patreon.com/c/happymamahealthybaby). I wanted to share it in full here so you can see what we are doing over there!
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you can find my PDF postpartum cookbook HERE (https://www.patreon.com/posts/nourished-mother-147954248?source=storefront)
and the allergen-free one HERE (https://www.patreon.com/posts/nourished-with-147973213?source=storefront)
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More on hypermobility:
> assessing joint hypermobility (https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/assessing-joint-hypermobility/)
> Organic Olivia podcast: Are You Hypermobile? (https://open.spotify.com/episode/4t5uw4pCiu9jh6czx0o8bb?si=HxyXUegpS-mLU8k8zhRF5A&t=3&pi=DrInehgVTRut6)
> Hormone Healing RD podcast: MCAS, POTS, and Hypermobility Part 1 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/2yazSSrY2Zhjw4ZCkshGFt?si=ibHeKwMxS9i5k_huRj_v8A)
> Hormone Healing RD podcast: MCAS, POTS, and Hypermobility Part 2 (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UrZdjOasKANde58quz94w?si=QfyXl447TmS9J1HmUIBQ7A)
23 Sept 2025
47. Care, Contentment, and Stewarding Your Family's Money Wisely with Carly the Debt Free Mom
In this interview, Carly (@debtfree.mom) and I chat about the shifts that motherhood brings to the family finances, chores and allowance, grocery costs, how to talk about money around your kids, and how to plan for the future. I LOVE her tagline, that care creates contentment. You can find more info on working with Carly at debtfreemom.co (https://www.debtfreemom.co/).
(And THIS (https://personalfinanceclub.com/build-wealth-by-investing-in-index-funds/) course on Index Funds is the retirement/investement one Carly recommended in our conversation.)
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Click HERE (https://theresedansby.wixsite.com/therese/about-3-1) to learn more about Earbud IBCLC, my new affordable breastfeeding and postpartum membership with access to my full lactation library and breastfeeding problem-solving framework.
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49. What to Expect in the First Week of Breastfeeding
Published 7 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The rest of that first day, feeding might be very hit or miss, and if you had a very fast birth, your baby might be disoriented and it might be cluster feeding earlier, but for the most part, babies are going to be sleepier on that first day of life. We want to keep offering the breast every three hours, but we do expect them to be hit or miss, as long as they are full term and they don't have any bed flags for milk transfer issues, and as long as you don't have any bed flags for low supply issues, we kind of let that ride for the first 24 hours. […]
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