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The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by conflicting sleep information; frustrated by sleep advice that felt wrong; or searched for a truly gentle, responsive alternative to sleep training, then you are in the right place. In each episode I’ll be answering your most pressing baby and toddler sleep questions, dispelling common sleep myths, deepening your understanding of biologically normal sleep, and encouraging you to trust your intuition. And because sleep is rarely just about sleep, you may just find some responsive parenting, lactation, or self-care tips sprinkled in along the way.
I’m your host, Kim Hawley, MA, MPH, IBCLC Holistic Sleep Coach, Lactation Consultant, Peaceful Parenting Educator, and mom. My specialty is truly holistic, developmental, attachment focused sleep support – no hidden sleep training here!
The Responsive Family Sleep Podcast
Exploring The Weaning Journey
Weaning is such a big step in a nursing journey, and often there isn’t much support and space to explore the weaning process. In this episode, I’m joined by Katy Baker-Cohen, an IBCLC with a special love of supporting parents on their weaning journey. Our conversation focuses on the experience of choosing to wean an established nursing relationship. We talk about the decision to wean and the emotions that surround this part of the nursing journey.
We explore the relationship between weaning decisions and sleep and how interconnected these aspects of parenting often are. For many parents, the decision to wean interacts with the ways a parent supports sleep, from complete weaning to small steps to create limits around nursing. From our shared love of supporting the weaning process, we both hope this episode helps you see more seen, validated, and supported.
About Katy
Katy Baker-Cohen, she/her, lives with her husband and children, Adam (11) and Aida “IDA” (7) in Philadelphia. After becoming a nurse in 2010 Katy worked for 4 years on an inpatient oncology floor. Katy then followed her dream of supporting families and for the last 10 years, Katy has been a nurse home visitor with The Philadelphia Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) supporting first time parents from pregnancy until child’s second birthday.
With a cohort of fellow NFP nurses, Katy became an IBCLC in 2017. Katy has a small lactation private practice, Crescent Lactation Care, where she offers in-home and virtual visits, a weekly lactation support group and a monthly weaning support session.
Connect with Katy
Website: https://www.crescentlactationcare.com/
Turning Leaves, weaning support session sign up: https://www.crescentlactationcare.com/turning-leaves
Weaning blog post: https://www.crescentlactationcare.com/crescent-lactation-blog/weaning
IG: @crescentlactationcare
Resources related to this episode
You may find my 2 blog posts on night weaning helpful….
Considering night weaning: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/blog/ready-for-night-weaning
Strategies for night weaning: https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/blog/how-to-night-wean
Connect with Kim
Grab a free sleep myth busting guide and learn more about working with Kim:
https://intuitiveparentingdc.com/
Instagram: instagram.com/intuitive_parenting_dc
Facebook: facebook.com/intuitiveparentingdc