Welcome to the Holding Time Podcast. Here we discuss breastfeeding in all it’s complexity - the ups and down, the challenges, the triumphs. Whether you are expectant, a new mother or simply interested, I hope you’ll appreciate the incredible warrior women who are managing to breastfeed babies across the country. This podcast is part of the Holding Time Project, an experimental intervention in chronically low breastfeeding statistics. Through music, art and writing, we’re looking at the reality of breastfeeding and listening to mothers who know a thing or two about how things could be better.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 hours 28 minutes
episode 6: Holding Time Featuring Natalie W
Natalie W I just thought I could like, ask for the help, and it would be there
Natalie talks about how her sons tongue tie wasn’t diagnosed for the first four weeks because the hospital where she gave birth didn’t automatically refer her to breastfeeding support. Natalie’s son had a tongue tie which was eventually cut after she paid to have it cut privately.
“I just thought, Oh, the help that I need, like when I want to breastfeed will just be there...
episode 5: Holding Time Featuring Victoria
Victoria
Victoria talks about her struggle to feed her premature baby, born 2.7lbs nine weeks early and her second 4lb child after having an emergency C-Section. Starting out in the hospital with Midwives who are too busy to sit with her whilst she attempts to feed, she struggles to establish a pain-free latch. When she returns home, the local support service, Koala North West support her in trying nipple shields for a month but her baby doesn’t gain much weight...
episode 4: Holding Time Featuring Michelle
Michelle ‘I was Told I Couldn’t Breastfeed’
Michelle talks about how her awareness about the importance of breastfeeding has grown across the years, after feeding three children. As an experienced breastfeeding mother, she says she grieved after being told in pregnancy that she wouldn’t be able to breastfeed her newborn as she would need surgery...
episode 3: Holding Time Featuring Ellen
Ellen It’s been the highlight of my mothering journey so far
Ellen talks about the importance of a network of mothers, especially during lockdown and reflects on breastfeeding in public.
"Throughout lockdown it was very difficult, you didn’t want to meet people in different stages: one lady would have given birth so you didn’t want to go meet them because they’d just had the baby and you were heavily pregnant yourself and, yeah, it was hard"...
episode 2: Holding Time Featuring Jennifer
Jennifer I wanted to be with my mum but I needed to be with him as well
Jennifer talks about breastfeeding whilst nursing her dying mother and how she never expected to feed for so long...
episode 1: Holding Time Featuring Ellie
Welcome to the Holding Time Podcast. Here we discuss breastfeeding in all it’s complexity - the ups and down, the challenges, the triumphs. Whether you are expectant, a new mother or simply interested, I hope you’ll appreciate the incredible warrior women who are managing to breastfeed babies across the country.
This podcast is part of the Holding Time Project, an experimental intervention in chronically low breastfeeding statistics...
An Introduction to Season 1: Mothers of Cheshire and Merseyside talk about breastfeeding
Welcome to the Holding Time Podcast. Here we discuss breastfeeding in all its complexity - the ups and downs, the challenges, and the triumphs. Whether you are expectant, a new mother or simply interested, I hope you’ll appreciate the incredible warrior women who are managing to breastfeed babies across the country.
This podcast is part of the Holding Time Project, an experimental intervention in chronically low breastfeeding statistics...