Hey, this is Amanda, women's health dietitian. And I'm Emily, nutritional therapy practitioner.

And this is the RU menstrual podcast, where we help you navigate the confusing world of women's hormones and teach you how to have healthy periods.

Each week, we will be diving into a different topic on women's health and sharing our perspective using nutrition, female physiology, and metabolic health.

Our goal is to help you wait through conflicting health information and empower you on your healing journey. We hope you

enjoy it. In this episode, we are focusing on all things related to breastfeeding and what new moms can

expect in the fourth trimester with registered nurse and IBCLC Terese Dansby.

Teresa received her bachelor's degree in science and became a registered nurse in 2007.

She was a neonatal intensive care or NICU nurse for the first eight years of her career

after briefs since working in high-risk OB and then a low-risk birth center

and completing half of a master's degree with the intent of becoming a certified midwife.

She instead became an international board certified lactation consultant in 2015 after overcoming

several feeding obstacles with her first baby. She is now a homeschooling mom of three with kids

ages ranging from eight years to eight months and has left the hospital to continue her own

lactation consultation private practice. I'm so excited to have you here today,

Terese. I really appreciate you coming on. I feel like I selfishly have a lot of questions

for you as a new mom. But can you just like go right into this whole transition from midwife

to IBCLC? Because that like really surprised me. I had no idea. Yeah, yeah, thanks Amanda. I'm just really

happy to be here with you and you're in such a perfect season to talk about this with. So I,

when I was a senior in high school, I went to an all-girls high school so we could do this.

We watched a birth video in anatomy class and I came home and I was like, that's it.

I'm going to be an OBGYN.

My dad is a doctor and he's very supportive.

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