EBB 234 - Tackling Fatphobia in Lactation with Kristin Cavuto

On today’s podcast, we’re going to talk with the founder of Every Baby Eats, licensed clinical social worker, and IBCLC, Kristin Cavuto Kristin Cavuto, pronouns she/they, is a licensed clinical social worker in IBCLC and private practice in central New Jersey. Her practice specialties are low supply, parental and infant mental health, and the intersection of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender in the care of the new family.   Kristin is the mother of two children who nursed full-time despite maternal insufficient glandular tissue (IGT) and who are now 16 and 13. Kristin is also an anti-racist activist and an LGBT+ activist, a member of Transformative Works fandoms, and makes fighting for a better world part of their daily life. We talk to Kristin about supporting families struggling with feeding infants in a realistic, family-centered, and non-disparaging way. We also talk about fatphobia as a form of oppression and marginalization in medicine and birth and what we can all do to challenge bias and model acceptance Content warning: We mention the intersection of fatphobia and racism.

Resources:

• EBB 99 – Plus Size Pregnancy and Birth with Jen McLellan 
• Harvard Implicit Bias Test
• Fat Phobia Scale Revisited by Robinson, Bacon, et al. 
• HAES (Health at Every Size)
• The Body is Not An Apology 
• National Association for the Advancement of Fat People 
• To follow Kristin on Facebook 
• Kristin's current project: https://www.everybabyeats.com/