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Can you continue breastfeeding when you start baby-led weaning? Absolutely! And in this special bonus episode Heather Dvorak, IBCLC joins Katie to talk about how to succeed at both breastfeeding and baby-led weaning simultaneously.

Heather Dvorak is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant who helps parents succeed at breastfeeding in her private practice. But Heather is also a mom of 4 and has done baby-led weaning with all of her children. Heather and her 4 children also all have a myriad of food allergies, so her baby-led weaning journey has not always been an easy one!

In this episode Heather talks about strategies for continuing to breastfeed when your baby starts solid foods. She discusses transitioning to greater intake from food as breastfeeding sessions decrease in number and frequency. We talk about individualizing your breastfeeding + BLW goals and she shares tips for breastfeeding and chestfeeding parents who want to continue past baby’s first birthday.

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In this episode, my guest Heather Dvorak, IBCLC and I discuss:

• How to succeed at breastfeeding when your baby starts baby-led weaning...and as a mom of 4 kids with food allergies (plus food allergies herself!) Heather has a wealth of information about continuing to breastfeed even if BLW is hard for you too!

• The natural progression to producing and providing less breastmilk during the weaning process as your baby starts to derive more nutrition from solid foods

• Strategies for parents who are breastfeeding/chestfeeding and want to continue doing so past the baby’s first year

  
  

LINKS from episode

• Heather Dvorak, IBCLC’s website A Baby Place: Birth, Breastfeeding and Beyond.

• La Leche League Joint Statement on Use of Term Chestfeeding (this was a new term for me, so I asked Heather to explain more about its use & thought this was helpful)

• What is an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) informational statement from the IBCLE

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• SUBSCRIBE to the Baby-Led Weaning Made Easy Podcast here - new episodes are released on Monday and Thursday and subscribing means you’ll never miss what’s new (+ you’ll get notified about special bonus episodes too!)

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• SIGN UP for Katie’s free online workshop “BABY-LED WEANING FOR BEGINNERS: How to get your baby to try 100 foods before turning 1 without you having to spoon-feed purees or buy pouches” - everyone on the free workshop gets a copy of the 100 FIRST FOODS LIST which was mentioned by Heather and Katie in this episode