If you are like Erin, then you may be feeling pressure to start holiday traditions that will be part of your children's lives for the next couple decades...

But your stressed out nurser may have other ideas.

In today's episode, Erin breaks down three common ways your breastfeeding toddler may responds to the changes around them this month, as well as 3 tips to handle nursing and weaning until the new year.

Q&A of the day: How much milk is too much??

Wins & Whines: Construction, Instagram detox, Moana 2, and parenting with anxiety.

The Gentle Toddler Weaning Course is the perfect thing to add to your holiday wish list! Learn everything you need to know about weaning to feel prepared, and even excited to move into the next stage of parenting. Add THIS LINK to your gift list now!

Contact Erin

Email: erin@nursingmamas.com

IG: @erin.nursingmamas

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and so on this episode of Weaning It, Erin sits down with her friend Caitlin LoCascio-King who is a veteran breastfeeding mom of 4, a lawyer and business woman who had a double mastectomy earlier this year.

Caitlin shares her four different breastfeeding experiences, two of which extended beyond a year.

She then explains how her family history of cancer prompted her to begin getting routine mammograms and breast MRIs before the age of 40 and how doing so resulted in a double mastectomy.

She shares her health journey over the last year and how being a breast-feeding mom influenced her perception of her surgery.

Episode Links

Pockets of Hope

BCalmed Inc

If you or someone you know goes through breast cancer surgery, these are amazing resources and items that you can gift to them.

You can find Caitlin on Instagram @cllk09.

I am honored to have five 5 start Apple reviews of the show! But having more will help our audience grow. After listening to this week's episode would you go here and leave a review?

IG: ⁠@erin.nursingmamas⁠ (DM me and say hello!)

Take the Extended Breastfeeding Quiz - ⁠HERE⁠

Join the Nursing Mamas' Social Circle - ⁠HERE⁠

Purchase the Gentle Toddler Weaning Course - HERE

Book a 15 minute consult - ⁠HERE

Erin critiques a Motherly article on gentle parenting and questions if a gentle parenting backlash is on the horizon.

Like most fads and trends, gentle parenting can be taken to the extreme and be so distorted it no longer resembles its original form.

She provides 3 tips to decide if parenting advice is a good fit for you, and when to see additional help.

Next, she discusses how to apply gentle parenting techniques when your toddler hits, and how to look at their hitting through a new lens (spoiler: they're not mad, they're scared).

Q&A of the Day

Cassandra asks, "I've done a little research on this but can't seem to find any information for toddler aged breastfeeders. Does my hormonal cycle impact my child through my breast milk? I have noticed that on my really difficult hormonal days my toddler also really struggles. It's like she has PMS too! Of course this could be from her picking up on my mood, but I have long wondered if she's receiving hormones through my milk?"

Wins & Whines

Powdered vitamins, homework, feminism

Resources/Links

The Gentle Toddler Weaning Course - HERE

Read the Motherly Article - HERE

My go-to Gentle Parenting Book - HERE

Kids powdered vitamins - HERE

Adult powdered vitamins - HERE

Let's connect!

IG: @erin.nursingmamas (DM me and say hello!)

Take the Extended Breastfeeding Quiz - HERE

Join the Nursing Mamas' Social Circle - HERE

Book a 15 minute consult - HERE