Blunt breastfeeding help with real-parent patience.
Badass Breastfeeding Podcast is a practical, conversational guide to breastfeeding, pumping, postpartum recovery, and infant feeding worries. Diane and Abby move from loose banter into direct advice, often correcting common myths with warmth and plain language.
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Badass Breastfeeding Podcast is a long-running breastfeeding support show with a casual rhythm and a practical center. It sounds informal, but the advice keeps returning to concrete feeding decisions. Diane brings lactation consultant and maternal child health language into everyday talk. Abby brings parent experience, listener framing, and a social work background. Together they spend a lot of time on the questions that make new parents spiral: Is this pain normal, is milk supply dropping, can stress hurt feeding, will night nursing ruin teeth, and when does pumping stop? The answers are rarely dramatic. That is part of the value. The show pushes back on blanket warnings, especially when parents are told to stop breastfeeding without clear evidence or context. Cavities become a conversation about food exposure, genetics, bottles, formula, and unsupported blame. Fortifiers become a conversation about what is being added, why it started, and whether anyone explained when to stop. Postpartum recovery gets treated as a period of healing, fear, logistics, and mental strain, not a contest to seem fine fastest. The show can wander. Family updates, sponsor reads, giveaways, and small domestic tangents often come before the lesson. Still, the repeated pattern is useful: a worry arrives, gets talked through, and ends with a realistic action such as calling a lactation consultant, checking medication compatibility, watching the whole baby, or easing pressure on the parent. Listener mail gives the archive an unusually personal texture. A listener story about widowed motherhood turns breastfeeding into something larger than feeding alone, while still staying grounded in the daily work of keeping a baby fed. The tone is blunt, warm, and often funny. It is not clinical. It is for parents who want someone to say the practical thing clearly, then say it again in a way that sticks.
Made for: Best for breastfeeding, pumping, pregnant, and postpartum parents who want practical feeding guidance in a conversational format. It also suits support people trying to understand common lactation worries without medical coldness.
What sets it apart: The show combines lactation guidance with unpolished, lived parent talk, so advice lands like a conversation rather than a handout. It is especially strong at challenging overconfident bad advice while still urging individualized support when a real feeding problem needs help.
Dianne Cassidy, IBCLC, and Abby Theuring, The Badass Breastfeeder, discuss everyday issues surrounding breastfeeding and motherhood, in ways everyone can relate to. This is the Badass Breastfeeding Podcast!
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical lactation guidance meets candid accounts of postpartum recovery, pumping, travel, and the invisible work of feeding a baby.
Diane and Abby turn breastfeeding into a practical, candid conversation rather than a set of rigid instructions. Diane brings her perspective as a lactation consultant and maternal child health specialist, while Abby draws on her own extended breastfeeding experience and social…
This is the show that turns your feeding spiral into a question Diane and Abby can actually answer.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A milestone episode blends familiar banter with a widowed mother's moving account of breastfeeding after loss.
The 500th episode of Badass Breastfeeding Podcast treats its milestone less like a victory lap than a lived-in reflection on what breastfeeding can hold when life has already been remade by grief.
A practical look at breast milk fortifying, wasted bottles, and asking when fortifier is still needed.
Diane and Abby keep the episode grounded in the question many parents actually bring home: what is fortifier doing, and how is it different from formula? Diane frames fortifier as something added to breast milk, while formula is treated as a standalone food source.
A grounded breastfeeding discussion on stress, oxytocin, and when supply worries call for lactation support.
Stress and Milk Supply looks at a worry many breastfeeding parents know well: whether stress can be tied to low milk supply. Diane, a lactation consultant and maternal child health specialist, and Abby, the Badass Breastfeeder, ease in with family updates, insurance talk, jury…
A relaxed, practical reset on breastfeeding rules, pain, timing, and making room for ordinary life.
Breastfeeding 101 resists the urge to turn nursing into a rule-bound routine, shifting attention away from the clock and toward a baby's time at the breast.
A practical, loosely structured look at surgery, nursing, and the shifting ground around breastfeeding, recovery, and trying again.
The hosts keep the tone warm and familiar, using family banter to set up a practical run through surgery, anesthesia, and breastfeeding while trying for another baby.
Breastfeeding is a learned skill, not an early failure.
Badass Breastfeeding Podcast frames early-feeding stress as something that can be learned, not as proof that breastfeeding is broken. Diane and Abby keep returning to a simple point: breastfeeding is a skill, the baby is learning it, and the parent is learning it too, so the…
Breastfeeding is framed as hidden bookkeeping, item by item.
The episode treats breastfeeding as mental labor long before it treats it as feeding. Diane and Abby stay with the private checklist one person carries all day: the last feed, which breast was used, pumping output, diaper counts, growth, weight gain, hunger cues, and the small…
Breastfeeding is presented as a learned skill, with enough concrete guidance to make the early newborn haze feel less overwhelming.
The episode treats breastfeeding as a skill that can feel messy before it feels natural. Its strongest point is the simple comparison to learning to walk: babies need practice, and parents do too, so the first attempts are rarely graceful.
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Diane, a lactation consultant with Hashimoto's, says breastfeeding is usually unaffected when thyroid levels are regulated, and she breastfed her first baby "just fine" despite a hypothyroidism diagnosis.
Diane and Abby celebrate the Badass Breastfeeding Podcast’s 500th episode with a giveaway featuring an S7 pump, two $100 gift cards, a Tokidoki carrier, and breastfeeding merchandise.
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Diane, a lactation consultant and maternal child health specialist, and Abby examine a claim that stress is the “number one killer” of breast milk supply and can eliminate supply within 24 hours.
Diane, a lactation consultant, and Abby revisit breastfeeding basics after listener Victoria suggested a beginner-focused episode.
Diane, a lactation consultant and maternal child health specialist, and Abby discuss why postpartum recovery can extend beyond the commonly cited six weeks.
Diane opens with the familiar back-and-forth about their own kids being breastfed.
Diane and Abby open with a little age confusion about their kids.
Diane and Abby of the Badass Breastfeeding Podcast revisit infant reflux, noting more than 50% of infants spit up at two months old and that reflux typically peaks around four months, resolving by six as the esophageal sphincter matures.
Diane opens by introducing herself as a lactation consultant, a mother of three, and a maternal child health specialist.