LLLGB Podcast

Our podcast is now in its second season. It provides easy-to-digest information about a wide range of breastfeeding topics.

LLL leaders, guests, mothers and parents offer a scrumptious buffet, where you can pick the treats that work for you and your family and leave the rest. The podcast talks about challenges you might face, the joys, and everything in between!

Our hosts, Maria Yasnova and Sarah Fletcher are volunteer breastfeeding counsellors with LLLGB. Maria and Sarah both lead breastfeeding support meetings locally and provide one-to-one support to anyone wanting to feed their child their milk – however that looks for them.

Since the podcast started Sarah and Maria have interviewed various guests and explored a variety of topics. Episodes are available on Spotify and Apple.

Episodes

1. Why Breastfeeding Support Matters
2. Breastfeeding as a Team Sport
3. Our Children and the Food We Eat with Chris Van Tulleken
4. When Breastfeeding Hurts
5. Discussing Infant Sleep with Helen Ball
6. Breastfeeding Beyond the Newborn Days
7. What does self care mean to you?
8. Breastfeeding and Down Syndrome with Sarah Ojar
9. The First Week
10. Breastfeeding and Aversion with Zainab Yate
11. Breastfeeding and Neurodiversity with Emily Lunny
12. In Conversation with Jayne Joyce– one of the writers of the Art of Breastfeeding
13. The first six to eight weeks with your baby
14. Dealing with Criticism
15. In conversation with Zarina Ayyub about early days and months of motherhood across cultures
16. Thoughts and feelings about introducing solids to breastfed babies
17. Discussing allergies and breastfeeding with Dr Robert Boyle, a paediatric allergy specialist and one of the members of the LLLGB panel of professional advisors.
18. Breastfeeding relationship with our older baby (from 8 months/ pre walking)
19. Adjusting to motherhood and becoming a parent
20. In memory of Naomi Stadlen (1942-2025)
21. How Babies Sleep, Helen Ball returns to the podcast to share her new book with us.
22. Over to You Part 1 (four parents share their experience of having a new baby)
23. Mothers in Conversation for Black Breastfeeding Week 2025
24. Triple-feeding (and how ‘Three Keeps’ may help) – three mothers share their stories

If you have any requests for podcast topics or a someone you think would make a great guest, do let us know at podcast@laleche.org.uk