diet soda while breastfeeding



- are you breastfeeding? - [man] yes. (upbeat music) - my name is colette wiseman. i'm a er physician and also a lactation counselor. i go out to new mom's houses and help them with breastfeeding. most of it's really just reassuring moms

that they're doing it right and that the baby is getting enough milk and answering some basicquestions about timing and what's normal in a newborn. i'm here today to assist and guide two men who are gonna try out mamabreast, even though they're men they're gonna be simulatingwhat it's like to breastfeed. - i feel like i know a decentamount about breastfeeding.

i know that there's a lotof nutrients in the milk, i know that there's actually no age to ever stop breastfeeding, it's just a societalthing that people make you feel like you need to stop drinking breast milk at a certain age. i mean you can't be like 35 and be like, "gimme some of that breast milk." - what i know about breastfeeding is that

it's a necessity for the baby, and i know that it couldbe uncomfortable for women because, you know, yourbreasts are on large. - woahoho! this is what i'm gonna have to wear? - yeah, this is gonnasimulate breastfeeding. - i have to wear this the whole day? - and i just throw this up over my-- - yep, just goes on--

- should i turn off the valves? - no, leave them on.- leave them on? okay. - it's fine, they don't leak. (laughs) - it already feels weirdon my neck and on my back. - if you're going tosimulate expressing milk, like if your baby is having trouble actually latching on to the breast, what you need to do is cupyour hand under the breast,

you're not gonna coverthe area under the nipple, but you're gonna cupunder kind of in a c-shape and express gently, likeit's a water balloon. - [curly] oh-ho-ho! - [colette] yeah, see youhave to hit that magic spot, it's not just a matter ofgrabbing and squeezing. you're gonna actually move baby so that it's nose is at the nipple and baby is gonna move hishead back, or her head back,

and latch on like that. - i have to feed a babyevery few hours now. - well, after newborns willfeed more than every few hours. if they're getting formula, they'll usually feed every three hours, but if they're breastfed theymight wanna go on every hour. - [zach] that's a lot to remember, but i'm ready to do this. - and so it begins.

i'm actually wearing my blazer the opposite way because i don't wanna look (laughs) - it's cold, guys.- cold. - it's real cold. - i kept bringing them upto kind of relieve my neck of the weight of it and that's what helped, and the ladies next to me were cracking up

'cause they were sayingsometimes that's what they do. - is it heavy? how much do they weigh? - [curly] it is heavy. it definitely feels like you can kind of rest it on something. - see, i do that all the time! - [woman] are they heavy? - yeah, i've noticed like my neck,

the back of my neck is hurting. - [woman] wow, welcome to womanhood. - [woman] does it feelweird having to, like, do it every so often? - it feels weird having to do it a lot, 'cuz i'm like in the middleof something and i forget and i'm like, oh, it's time already? - i couldn't get into a work rhythm. every time i wouldfinally get into a flow of

doing whatever i was doing at work, my alarm would go off tellingme i have to breastfeed, or i'd have to dispose into a cup. it's now 3:15, and i have toextract milk from my breast. fun times. - is that bad that i skipped two feedings? - yes! - i don't have a problem withsomebody else breastfeeding, but i did feel weird aboutpeople looking at me.

i actually avoided leaving the studio. i was scared to be stared at. i was worried that if my alarm went off and my baby got hungry that i would not be in a place that was private enough to breastfeed. - is this wrong to beeating while he's eating? came down, saw curly sitting here.

boobies out, no baby. (laughter) this was a dark awakening into a future i feel if i have like a daughter. like i don't think i'dwant to have a daughter. like i'm hoping i don't, for her sake. 'cause i don't think this is a good look for a female me. - how does this experience make you feel?

- can i be honest? it's really bothersome. i haven't got--- i feel that way about boobs. - yes, well the boobs is a separate issue. - [woman] how you feelin', talita? - i feel good.- yeah? - i was talking about earlier, how i didn't feel reallycomfortable going out because i feel like i'd get anxiety

about just going to the market. like, i'm like, oh, igotta go to the market and then i get anxious and i'm like, i can't imagine having to then think about breastfeedingat the market, too. you know, like, i can't imagine what that anxiety must belike for women to just be... they can't just go to the market, they have to worry about feeding somebody

and they can't not feed their baby, they have to feed the baby, so this is already, it gave me a little bitmore self-conscience in the way that i imaginea lot of women feel. - i think this was aninteresting experience to something that i had no idea experience of like what it's like, you know, because i'mobviously not a woman,

and i'm never opposed to awoman breastfeeding in public, but this just made me feel the trials and tribulations to go through. - people don't like seeingboobs for their function, because they are sexualized. so, i think if they cansomehow understand that it's, you know, it's a little bit of both. you know, if you likeboobs, you like boobs, but boobs also do more.

they act as more than justsomething that turns you on. like, they bring life. they're part of a human being as well. i commend women all the time, like,

diet soda while breastfeeding,y'all make things look easierthan they actually are. i mean big ups to you, you birth life and thenyou nurture it, like, that's girl power.