- [Jazzmyne] Welcome to Boob juice!
- [Lindsay] Where is my baby?
- Can you drink breast milk as an adult?
I'm a horrible mother! Oh my god.
- I'm losing it y'all, I'm losing it.
(intro music)
(baby squeals)
- Hi, I'm Lindsay!
- And I'm Jazzmyne.
- And this is 'Fast Forward',
where we take on the ultimate challenge.
- Breastfeeding.
(laughs)
- Parenthood.
And this is 'Fast Forward',
where we take on the ultimate challenge.
- Parenthood!
- In this episode,
we're going to be breastfeeding for 24 hours.
- Were you breastfed?
- Yes. Were you?
- No. - Oh...
- I think my mom fed me with formula.
Honestly, breastfeeding is probably
one of the only subjects in pregnancy and birth
and everything that I really don't know much about.
- Same!
- [Hannah] Hi! - [Both] Hello!
- We're going to be abiding
by a breastfeeding schedule for 24 hours.
What are your thoughts?
- I did what, I guess they call it on-demand feeding?
Which is, whenever you notice the cues,
you just feed them then and there.
- I feel like some people think
there's like a right and a wrong
when it comes to breastfeeding or formula.
- As long as your kid's being fed,
who cares? whether it's formula, whether it's breastmilk.
It's no one place to tell you how to do it,
or how not to do it.
- I love that. Thank you!
- Bye! - Bye.
- This is a lot! I'm already tired.
- I'm stressed just thinking about.
- [Julie] Hi, I'm Julie Matheney.
- [Lauren] Hi! I'm Lauren Archer.
- How you feed your baby is as personal choice
as any choice that you make with your body,
supported as best, right?
So you'll hear 'Breast is best!',
you'll hear 'Fed is best.',
And then, there are two extremes
and then there's a lot of fighting in the middle.
- So we learnt so much about breastfeeding.
I came in knowing nothing at all.
- Truly.
- Kind of scared of it, to be honest.
Can everyone lactate?
- Theoretically? Yes.
So 2018, the first transgender woman
was able to induce lactation through hormone therapies
to breastfeed her baby for six weeks.
- Can you drink breast milk as an adult?
- Yes.
- Whoa. What does it taste like?
- Welcome to Boob juice!
(laughs)
- Hey Cheska! - [Cheska] Hey!
- You recently birthed a child!
- I did.
- And, you're lactating! - I still am!
- Wow! Have you ever tried your own breastmilk?
- I've tried my friend's breast milk.
- How was it? - Before I was pregnant.
- I, it's just watery. - Watery?
- Really?
- Yeah, it didn't really taste like anything.
- We're going to be trying it.
- I have this. I pumped it last night for you.
For you guys, fresh off the boob.
- Fresh! (laughs)
- Don't make me laugh! I'm gonna spit it out.
- I'm terrified. - Why?
- I don't know.
(drum roll)
- Wait, why is it really sweet?
- Really? - It is?
- Yeah.
It is!
- Oh, it is sweet! I had Boba last night.
(gasp)
- Now it can change in flavor, based on what you eat.
Just like breast milk, it can be different colors.
It can be blue, orange, green, yellow, white.
- Because of what you're eating.
- It literally tastes like tea milk.
- Boba Tea Milk! Out of your boob.
I'm Impressed!
- We're going to teach you how to actually breastfeed.
(yells)
- Okay, so what does it feel like?
- It feels like someone's sucking out of your nipple.
- Okay!
Got it.
- So on this breast model,
unfortunately with this model, there's only one hole.
You'll have an actual nipple,
we'll have four to 20 nipple pores.
- What!? Four to 20!?
- Four to 20, where you will spray milk
out of multiple holes.
So this is not an anatomically correct nipple.
- Never.
- So when you have somebody bring you the baby,
you're going to actually get them tummy to tummy,
the butt's going to be on their arm,
hold them with your palm of your hand in their back,
finger and thumb behind the ears.
Now you don't have to just feed across your body,
- You can feed in 'Football'!
- Football!
- Okay? So your baby can be back here.
- That looks comfortable! - Very comfortable.
- You can feed your baby where they're upright,
so this is called 'Koala'.
- I like to call it 'The Barstool'.
- Okay, so...
- So you you automatically, yep. Roll the baby in.
Now switch your hands,
so your right hand is going to be on the baby,
with your palm of your hand on baby's shoulders,
with your finger and thumb up by her ears.
And then you switch arms, so you bring this one across
and now you're holding your baby.
- What about breast pumps?
- Yeah, let's look at a breast pump.
So this is the 'Flange',
but I would actually put this here.
There's two modes to a good quality breast pump.
There's a stimulation mode that is to stimulate the nipple,
to get you to release milk.
And there's an expression mode
that actually relieves that or moves that milk.
- I've never done anything like this on camera!
Okay, it's like a little boob massage!
- Okay, so you guys are going to be doing mock schedules
of how you would feed, possibly feed your baby!
We have come up with two different options.
- So I'm going to give you mine!
- Okay!
- [Julie] So this is for a baby
that would be about one week old,
where we're still working on
optimizing feeding at the breast.
We're going to consider that you have a lower milk supply
and we're trying to boost that supply.
So we're going to be breastfeeding the baby
and then pumping, not all the time,
so you're on a modified triple feeding plan.
- And this is a plan that could be for week one
all the way through like 3, 4, 5, 6 months.
And it's called 'Feeding on Demand'.
And it's basically where the baby asks, and you deliver.
- Do you have any words of wisdom for us
as we endure on this breastfeeding journey?
- Take care of yourself!
And between feeds, feed yourself!
- All right.
- This might work in our favor!
- You'll be great!
- Bring us the babies!
- These are actual newborn size.
- Your baby is cuter than my baby!
- We know! (baby noise)
- Oh my god, It's six o'clock in the morning!
Oh, What do I have to do?
25 minutes to left breast, 30 minutes right?
That's like being out for a whole hour? Breastfeeding?
- I'm not a morning person. - Not at all.
- I am so not okay in the mornings.
(laughs)
Don't talk to me before 9:00 AM!
I'm just like imagining this actually being a real baby
and it like crying because I need to milk.
I hate everything.
You can't necessarily fall asleep,
- No.
- So I was up for an hour, at 6:00 AM.
It was a nightmare.
- Y'all (laughs)
I slept through my first alarm already.
I was supposed to feed Papa at 7:00 AM and it's 7:25.
It's going to be a lot of sitting today.
When I first saw my schedule,
I thought I had it maybe like, better?
And then I saw Lindsay's too, and I was like,
this is just as bad...
- Yeah. (laughs)
Look at this. That's my schedule for today.
- [Kate] It looks like a lot!
It looks like you're not really doing much else that day.
- I don't know how you do other things while doing this!
I would look at the schedule and I was like, okay,
it's seven o'clock, and I have to breastfeed until 7:30.
And then I have like, max 45 minutes,
And then I have to breastfeed again!
- You have to operate your schedule around those
in-between periods, which don't last long.
It's just like, so stressful!
The first thing I thought of this morning,
I was like, this is the ultimate birth control video.
My kitchen is insanely dirty,
and I don't have time to clean it.
Alright, now I've got to bottle feed.
Geez... I should've gotten a pillow!
Now I gotta do pumping for 10 minutes.
9am is when I, you know, get ready for the day.
I needed to brush my teeth, I need to go to the bathroom,
I need to do, like eat something! I was so hungry!
But I had to try to do all those things
while like holding this child.
- I have maybe an hour and a half.
Dishes,
taking out garbage,
and like having to figure out how to do all this,
all around like a schedule.
How do parents do this alone?
- I have to wear these pads.
Basically, If I don't wear this,
then I'm leaking, like milk, everywhere.
It's like a literal maxi pad for your boobs.
- People like me, that breastfeed,
We leak!
And so we have to put these in our bras.
Oh is that funny?
I'm literally providing food for your child.
- [Kate] Yeah, well you also left the child
upside down on the couch, so...
- [Jazzmyne] Aw.
I've seen stats and things saying that
breastfeeding is healthier.
I still assume that formula is healthy
because people are giving it to their kids?
- When you think of what our milk is from our bodies,
it's a living substance that has red blood cells,
immune properties, it has growth hormones,
and it's constantly changing during the day.
So your morning milk,
is meant to hydrate the baby for the day.
Your night milk has hormones in it to help babies sleep.
Breast milk is constantly changing.
Formula is the same every single time.
- But one of my favorite fun facts is like biofeedback,
Where when baby comes to your breasts, they deposit germs,
your body, intakes it and creates exactly what baby needs,
including antibodies.
So like if a parent or anyone in the house is sick,
- I'm like, drink the milk! - Oh My God!
Because you essentially become your own pharmacy!
- Which is amazing! - Wild!
- It is 11:45, which means I now have to
do 20 minutes of breastfeeding
and then 10 minutes of bottle feeding
and then pump for 10 minutes.
Well, this shirt's great!
I can kind of do a little tuckie moment.
Why you smiling like that? (baby cries)
Pumping time, Baby!
Oh my God! Oh!
I don't know what it is about today,
but it's really suctioning! (screams)
Okay, I'm not gonna lie, it kind of hurts!
I just got off my period, my boobs are sensitive.
I'm sure that your boobs would be even more sensitive
when you're breastfeeding though.
- On a scale from one to 10, how much does it hurt?
- I was just going to ask that!
- It shouldn't, it should never hurt.
- Okay, but really?
- There is no amount of pain that you should endure.
- I talked to Lindsay,
and Lindsay's latching her baby on a real boob.
I was just doing the motions.
What do I do? Keep her under here? Expose it?
- Today is a chaotic day for me. My apartment's a mess.
So I'm going to go over to Cissy's house,
which she literally lives down the street.
And she's probably going to provide me
with coffee and peace.
So I went to the cafe with Cissy,
but then I had to breastfeed in public.
It was really nerve wracking, but it was fine.
I'm sure if it was a real baby,
I would feel more like this is my place
and I can take up this space.
- [Cissy] Hello?
- This is my friend that saved the day.
Honestly, this is what's going to actually happen
when either of us have children.
- I'm not excited. (wheezes)
- I've been calling him the evil baby because
look how evil he looks.
(cackling)
I had a devil-looking child fake baby, right?
If, if I had a cute ass child, that was my own,
I still wouldn't love breastfeeding
and that whole schedule that's around it,
But at least I'd probably feel like
I have more of a purpose to get through.
- This whole show so far,
I felt like, oh, I could be a mom!
And then this episode happened, I take it all back.
This is also not how I'm supposed to be holding him.
I'm a horrible mother! Oh my God.
I also now have a meeting,
I can't decide if I want to go off camera or on camera
with this baby in my boob.
- Lindsay is... Oh! right here with her hideous baby.
(laughs)
- Jessica, look at my baby! It's not as cute as yours.
My schedule is basically like an hour
of just milking myself.
- Listen, I much prefer breastfeeding than pumping.
- I'm sure. - Like I dreaded the pump.
- Yeah, just sitting there. - That noise,
that humming noise, - Being milked
- Being milked! A human milking machine.
I thought I would have to stop and do this less,
It's exhausting.
- We didn't have a real child, - No.
- We're not recovering from postpartum.
- No, the hormones...
- The hormones! All that stuff aside, this sucked.
- Yeah. - This really sucked!
- I never am tired at this time.
I'm exhausted.
The early evening into like the actual evening,
I was just sick of it.
I was bored, yet consumed?
I still have five more times to feed this child,
throughout the night.
- How was your breastfeeding experience?
- Breastfeeding is awful. I hated it.
For me, I had this issue called 'DMER'.
'Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex'.
So basically, the second milk let down,
When that would happen,
I would get this awful feeling of dysphoria
like this isn't my baby, this isn't my house,
this isn't my life.
Over time it faded away, but not completely.
For me, it was always a fight to breastfeed.
- I want to know a little bit about your mental health.
- Your body has just gone through a massive hormonal shift.
Your pregnancy hormones are dropping,
your breastfeeding hormones are increasing,
so it can cause all these weird mood changes.
There are some experiences where our hormones
work differently than how we anticipate.
So there is this thing called D M E R,
which is this Dyseuphoric Milk Ejection Reflex.
So that when you release your milk,
instead of feeling this warm, cozy, happy,
comforting feeling, you actually feel
like creepy crawly, like get it off anxiety.
There are other people out there that
don't feel excited to breast or chest feed or pump.
- And it's a lot of work!
It's not this thing that just comes easily to everyone,
and it's magical for everyone,
But it's worth it!
- My alarm just went off to breastfeed and I have a dilemma.
I can't find the baby.
Is it in the car? Where is my baby?
I did not leave baby in the car. I left my baby by my shoes.
Hey, little punk!
- So it is currently our 11:15 feeding.
I think I'm going to sleep on the couch tonight.
I don't want to wake you because of work!
I'm waking up at like, three!
I feel like this is how I have to sleep.
I mean, she's probably shouldn't be this close to the edge?
- [Kate] Yeah, also that she looks pretty much awake!
(laughs)
- I'm so tired today! Oh my!
People would say "Parenthood's a full time job!"
I'm like "Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course it is."
It's a full-time job times 10 million
because at least at a full-time job,
you have a time you go home, a time you relax.
And the full-time job doesn't wake you up
at 3:00 AM crying, wanting to suck your boob!
- Well, it is 12:00 AM,
and it is time for me to feed!
I thought that I only had a 3:00 AM
and really I have a 3:00 AM,
and a 4:15 and a 6:30.
(alarm rings)
- I literally just got to sleep, and now it's 2:00 AM.
The thing with breastfeeding is
I'm trying not to fall asleep.
You're not supposed to do that.
- It's like a special kind of pain
when your sleep is being messed with.
- This one hurts. This one really hurts.
- Some form of torture, honestly.
- It really felt that way.
(swears)
- This is my three o'clock alarm.
I wonder how Lindsay is doing?
(snoring)
- If I had a newborn, I would need so much support.
Our last minute, and then I'm going back to bed.
We are done!
Honestly, Parents.
Unreal.
- I went into this thinking, "Aw, cute child!",
like I'm kind of excited to be a mom!
And then this video happened. - Yeah
- I take everything I ever felt back.
We didn't even have a real child
that we didn't even have real bodily things happening to us.
And this schedule really messed me up.
- The affordable care act, so that was signed in 2010,
says that lactation services need to be covered by insurance
at a hundred percent? - Oh? That's great!
- As preventative medicine,
about 75% of my clients get my consultations full free.
So you can do a prenatal breastfeeding class for free,
you can see me for free,
to be able to then get this, these things on track.
- I would need me, someone to help me.
- Yeah
- Someone to help them, help me.
- Yeah! - Like, I would need
a whole team if I was doing this.
- Right? Oops, man.
Magical and horrific. - Yes!
(baby noise)
(outro music)