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We have part two of our baby reflux series. Today, I am interviewing Emily Swan. Emily is a wife, mother, nurse, and

internationally board certified lactation consultant. She has worked with maternal and infant health

for a decade now, and she's just as passionate today about today as she was when she first started,

and she'll talk a bit about her journey with

that in the episode. I love her story and how she got into it. What really started out as a career

in the NICU quickly turned into a love for holistic wellness outside of the hospital system.

And that's where her passion for helping women and babies breastfeed through holistic

lactation work really kind of bloomed. She incorporates bodywork and nutrition as key pillars

for infant health. And over the years, she's learned more and more about the dyad, the mother

baby dyad, and the importance of looking at them as one rather than two separate parts, which I

personally really love and appreciate. She loves her work, her family, and the importance of looking at them as one rather than two separate parts, which I personally

really love and appreciate. She loves her work, her family, and their little homestead very much.

She hopes to continue this work for many, many years. We talked about a lot in this episode. It's

more focused on bodywork, positioning, posture, and the environment when it comes to baby reflux,

which I feel like is, it's foundational. No matter what root cause your baby has, you have to

address the physical and the environmental and like the, you know, what kind of stressors

are present, things like that. Are they getting outside, getting getting sunlight so she has a lot of very practical simple things and sometimes when we have

such a stressful and reflux can be really complex in babies it's not always super straightforward

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