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Establishing Your Milk Supply

Establishing Your Milk Supply

Update: 2025-12-10
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How can you be sure to establish a good milk supply after your baby is born?
Listen in today as Dianne and Abby discuss establishing a good milk supply, things
to watch for that may interfere with establishing a good supply and some things
you can do to help.

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Things we talked about:
In pregnancy [7:01 ]
24-72 hours after delivery [10:20 ]
The more you feed, the more milk you will make [12:18 ]
Prolactin and oxytocin [13:40 ]
Endocrine control and autocrine control [16:57 ]
8-12 feeds in 24 hours is a baseline [20:00 ]
Taking care of you [25:52 ]
Things that can interfere with establishing a supply [26:38 ]
Things you can do [30:40 ]

Links to information we discussed or episodes you should check out!
https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/survival-guide-for-the-4th-trimester/
https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/delayed-onset-low-milk-supply/

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https://diannecassidyconsulting.com/milklytheblog/

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Here is how you can connect with Dianne and Abby:
AbbyTheuring ,https://www.thebadassbreastfeeder.com
Dianne Cassidy @diannecassidyibclc, http://www.diannecassidyconsulting.com

Music we use:
Music: Levels of Greatness from We Used to Paint Stars in the Sky (2012)
courtesy of Scott Holmes at freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes

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Establishing Your Milk Supply

Establishing Your Milk Supply

Dianne Cassidy & Abby Theuring