Episode 59: Navigating the Silent Challenges of New Motherhood with Lactation Consultant and Infant Feeding Coach Ellen Ellingsworth
- S1E59
- 47:57
- September 11th 2020
Bienvenidos, querido A:R Nation!
Say it with me: I am blessed! I am happy! I am thankful that I have another day!
That's how I've been feeling, and I wanted to share that energy with you!
I'm super excited to share this episode with you.
Our guest works in an industry and niche that I knew nothing - or at best, very little - about.
Her name is Ellen Ellingsworth, and she is a lactation consultant and infant feeding coach.
I met her as I'm moving along in my digital marketing journey, and thought that sharing what she does would be hugely valuable.
As a coach, Ellen works with expecting and new mothers to navigate the challenges of feeding.
Ellen shares that some of the more immediate challenges she faces when speaking to new and expecting moms is the oft-outdated, and sometimes straight misinformation, that people are given when it concerns feeding (and she knows this, because she's also a registered dietitian).
In this world dominated by social media and people often sharing "only their best self," Ellen shares the challenge of 'Mom-guilt,' something that many new and expecting moms experience when they find themselves having issues when it comes to feeding their baby.
Finally, Ellen shares some very practical tips and perspectives that new and expecting moms should examine as they figure out and learn how they and their child will navigate feeding.
I will share that (at least at the time of this recording) I don't have children, so this conversation was really insightful and instructive for me, and I learned a lot from it about an experience I didn't even knew existed.
There is no greater magnitude of responsibility and respect than motherhood. This is the Adulthood:Revisited podcast.
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Adulthood: Revisited
I dunno about y'all, but in the last few years I've been trying to figure who I am.
I've asked myself who am I as a person, as a man, as a partner in relationship, who am I in business.
I wonder if who I am is really who I want to be
If not, when did it change, and what can I do to tap into who I really want to be.
If you've asked yourself questions like these, then I invite you to join me on this journey, Adulthood: Revisited.