Katie The Traveling Lactation Consultant
Welcome to the podcast. I am your host, Katie Oshita, BSN, RN, IBCLC and infant feeding specialist. Quench your thirst for knowledge and travel with me across the nation to discover, learn, collaborate and better serve clients from all over the globe. Let’s ride and thrive together.
Episodes
96 episodes
Ep 96 Diet & Breastfeeding with Allegra Gast
Pregnancy and postpartum nutrition are not just helpful but essential to milk supply. Thyroid issues, PCOs, insulin resistance, gut microbiome dysfunction all cause problems in milk supply and nutritional status. Learn how working w...
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Episode 96
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59:37
Ep 95 My Airway Journey- Update
Learning about oral ties and airway dysfunction hasn't only helped Katie's clients and practice. Along the way Katie and her family have benefited from this knowledge. Since learning more about lip and buccal ties, Katie and her Kid...
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Episode 95
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Ep 94 CST with Meaghan Beames
Craniosacral therapy (CST) is something that few people understand. CST comes from Osteopathy and is a gentle, rhythmic movement to support bones and the cerebrospinal fluid moving within us. CST is gentle and focuses heavily on the...
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Episode 94
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59:20
Ep 93 BF in AU w/Kyrie Hickey
Breastfeeding is universal and lactation support is needed everywhere. Katie Oshita and Kyrie Hickey discuss pumps, providers and paid time off in Australia and how those things differ with what's offered in the US. Listen here for ...
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Episode 93
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1:02:39
Ep 92 Guided Releases w/Dr Kundel
Frenectomies are much more common now, there are more providers learning and doing releases. Rarely though does anyone discuss or offer a guided release, many don't even know what it is or how it's different. Dr Kundel has bee...
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Episode 92
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55:30
Ep 91 Lactation & Skilled Bodywork with Dr. Karen Garcia
In this episode Katie Oshita and Karen Garcia discuss how bodywork and lactation work together. As a practitioner of Osteopathic Manual Manipulation (OMM) and lactation, Dr Garcia is in a unique place to combine the two fields to help the...
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Episode 91
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53:57
Ep 90 Anatomy of a Lactation Visit
Ever wondered what happens at a lactation visit? What does an IBCLC do with the parent and the baby? What types of visits are there? What is different for a returning to work visit or a visit with a tongue tied baby? In ...
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Episode 90
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34:29
Ep 89- From Pharmacy to Homeopathy w/Adina Popov
It's not often you meet someone who has gone from a very allopathic profession to extremely holistic. Adina Popov lives in Romania and started her career as a Pharmacist. After having her children she felt passionate about lactation...
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Episode 89
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55:30
Ep 88 Breastfeeding in Indonesia w/Ingrid Siahaan IBCLC
Breastfeeding is a universal biological right. It is what humans have been doing from the beginning of time. While it is biologically normal, that doesn't mean it's easy. Some places in the world have more support than others....
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Episode 88
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Ep 87 At Breast Supplementation w/Johanna Sargent
For many parents, exclusive breastfeeding is difficult and supplementation must happen. Many do what is referred to as "triple feeding" to breastfeed, bottle feed and then pump. It's exhausting and not sustainable long term. While m...
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Episode 87
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57:14
Ep 86 Breastfeeding, Sleep and Supporting Queer Families w/Joy MacTavish
Most of the time sleep and breastfeeding feel like opposing forces, but they don't have to be. Joy MacTavish is an IBCLC and a holistic sleep consultant who supports families to balance both wants and needs of their growing family. ...
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Episode 86
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50:22
Ep 85 What New Parents Need to Know
In this episode, Katie Oshita addresses many of the topics new parents need to know about. From prenatal lactation to weaning, telehealth, and gut microbiome, lactation is a time of questions and concerns for most families. Many are...
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Episode 85
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30:57
Ep 84 - Breastfeeding T1D Babies w/ Erin Hayden-Baldauf
Type 1 diabetes in infancy and toddler years is rare, but when it happens most families are not just encouraged but forced to wean from breastfeeding. Erin Hayden-Baldauf has personal and professional experience with breastfeeding a T1D b...
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Episode 84
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1:00:42
Ep 83 Lactation for the Rest of Us w/Jacob Engelsman
Breastfeeding, chest feeding, body feeding, bottle-feeding. There are many ways to feed an infant (this list doesn't even include cup feeding, finger feeding and more!). Gender diverse and queer families need unique support when exp...
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Episode 83
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50:01
Ep 82 Bottle Skills with Susan Howard
Bottles are actually not an innate skill. Babies are born knowing how to breastfeed, and with many reflexes to support the process. However bottle are not like the breast (no matter how much the packaging claims it's "just like the ...
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Episode 82
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Ep 81 Skilled Chiropractic with Dr Rachel Kuperus
Being born is quite difficult and traumatic, even in the best of situations. It's hard- on both the parent and newborn. Chiropractic care helps get the dyad moving and feeling better, and this means breastfeeding better as well.&nbs...
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Episode 81
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Ep 80 Year 3 in Review
Year 3 for podcasting is done! This year saw the end of constant traveling and instead a focus on international virtual travel. The recordings were with 10 IBCLC's, 4 Release providers, 4 Bodyworkers, 6 solo recordings, and 2 other ...
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Episode 80
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29:46
Ep 79 Guided Releases with Dr Geis
Having a bodyworker with hands on during a release isn't popular, but it has profound results. Dr Michael Geis, an Osteopath trained in Osteopathic Manual Manipulation and Cranial Techniques and has chosen to specialize in oral ties after...
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Episode 79
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55:30
Ep 78 Getting Healthy in a Toxic World
In this episode Katie Oshita talks about how people aren’t healthy anymore- fertility rates are on the decline, pregnant patients are less healthy, children aren't healthy in their childhood anymore. Airway and movement dysfunction ...
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Season 3
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Episode 78
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34:25
Ep 77 Nat the OT
OT and Lactation can have a very complementary relationship however, sadly it's frequently a complicated relationship instead. In this episode Katie Oshita and Nat Udwin discuss how IBCLCs and OTs can not only support each other but suppo...
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Episode 77
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56:34
Ep 76 Shereen Lim
Tongue tie is not a US phenomenon. Tongue ties have been known about and treated for hundreds of years, but in the last decade the field has dramatically expanded. Part of that is more recognition, part is epigenetic changes causing...
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Episode 76
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56:18
Ep 75 Jeanette Mesite Frem
Most families in the US do some form of combination feeding, using bottles and frequently breast pumps. The sheer volume of new pumps, bottles, and other feeding supplies is enough to overwhelm most IBCLC's. To stay current on new e...
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Ep 74 Amber Ginn
Every professional specializes overtime. Sometimes it's an instant pull and choice, other times it's a slow process where you learn more and more about an area and become an expert about it. For Amber Ginn, it was much more instanta...
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Ep 73 Thriving not just Surviving
In this episode Katie Oshita discusses some of the healing and holistic modalities that she is learning through the Holistic Lactation residency course she is taking. Comparing and contrasting allopathic/mainstream "normal" interventions ...
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Season 3
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Episode 73
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37:52