The pumpspot
The pumpspot is a collection of nourishing conversations about the emotional, beautiful and messy ways we navigate nursing, pumping, & parenthood. Every episode connects us, inspires, and explores how we feed our families—at home, in the workplace, throughout the world. Listen in and let this community feed you hope, encouragement, and support—all in the name of milk and motherhood—because no one should do this alone.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Episode 27: Professional Support for Working Parents
Averjill Rookwood (The Corporate Doula) is a passionate doula who is trained to serve in the holistic fertility, birth and postpartum arenas. She also brings over fifteen years of employer benefits m…
Episode 26: Running and Mothering? Yes You Can!
In today's episode, Amy sat down with Whitney Heins and Laura Norris of The Mother Runners. Join them in conversation about what it's like to be both a runner and mother, how that changes during preg…
Episode 25: A Different Journey with Every Baby
Lisa, on our team, had to go have a baby in order to be a guest on the pumpspot, and today is that day! Lisa is in a very special season of postpartum as she is home nursing and navigating life with …
Episode 24: Kate Torgersen Built Milk Stork By Fulfilling a Need
This week on the pumpspot we were so excited to sit down with Kate Torgersen, the founder and CEO of Milk Stork and a mother of three. Kate founded Milk Stork when she was traveling and pumping for h…
Episode 23: Normalizing Postpartum Life with Comedian Christine Meehan-Berg
Welcome to the pumpspot! We are here sharing nourishing conversations about the beautiful, challenging, and wonderful ways that we feed our families. In today's episode, Amy sits down with Christine …
Episode 22: Your Pelvic Floor Health
This week our very own Nina Emlen spoke with Sarah Reardon for a fascinating episode about pelvic floor health. Sarah is a pelvic floor physical therapist who has an incredible wealth of knowledge to…
Episode 21: How Mothers Esquire is Changing The Conversation for Women in Law
There are some unique challenges to navigating both parenthood and a career in the legal profession, especially when it comes to breastfeeding and taking the bar exam. For this energetic, vital conve…
Episode 20: Inducing Lactation and the Path to Feeding as the Non-Gestational Parent
Is it possible to breastfeed your baby if you didn't give birth? That's a question we've heard a lot and so we've invited a guest who has a beautiful story and answer to that question. Lisa had the p…
Episode 19: Exclusive Pumping is Breastfeeding Too
The journey to feed does not look the same for every mother, every family. For some, the journey might be made up entirely of pumping. Exclusive Pumping is a form of breastfeeding and a part of the f…
Episode 18: Celebrating Black Breastfeeding Week (and beyond) with BMBFA
To continue celebrating National Breastfeeding Month and uplift Black Breastfeeding Week, we took this opportunity to celebrate with an inspiring and enlightening roundtable discussion! Amy convened …
Episode 17: A Family Affair: The Role of Partners in Feeding
To continue our celebration of National Breastfeeding Month, Amy sat down with Tom Johnston. Tom is a midwife, a lactation consultant, a father to eight breastfed children, and an assistant professor…
Episode 16: The Best Breastfeeding Pep Talk Ever
We know there are hard days, long nights and so many challenges to overcome within the feeding journey. We know there are many moments you need the reminder that you are strong and capable and that y…
Episode 15: The Circle of Nourishment: A Milk Donation Deep-dive
This conversation explores all the ways we give and receive the gift of breast milk. Lisa sat down with Abby Malman Case of Mothers’ Milk Bank, and Mothers’ Milk Bank Baby Café in Denver, Colorado fo…
Episode 14: How do we navigate motherhood in an age of radical change? Part 3 with Mackey Roberson
This platform is a place where we value community conversations and elevating voices around real topics, issues and mothers. With that in mind, we wanted to bring you a very timely conversation with …
Episode 13: Breastfeeding at work: what working, feeding families really need
As a community-inspired breastfeeding and pumping platform, we're focused on helping parents feed both their families and their careers. Nourishing a baby impacts every aspect of your life, and that …
Episode 12: How NASA is blazing a new path for working parent and breastfeeding support in the workplace
If we can get working mothers to space, we can certainly make space for them here on earth. Lisa and Amy sit down with Susan Schuh, Rachael Copeland, and Erin Sholl from NASA to explore how a company…
Episode 11: How do we navigate motherhood in an age of radical change? Part 2 with Ericka Polanco-Webb
On this platform, we value candid community conversations that elevate voices around real topics, issues, and motherhood experiences. For part two of our series of conversations with Black mothers an…
Episode 10: How do we navigate motherhood in an age of radical change? Part 1 with Jenny LeFlore
This platform is a place where we value community conversations and elevating voices around real topics, issues and mothers. With that in mind, we wanted to bring you a very timely conversation betwe…
Episode 9: How do we care for the mental health of mothers? with Dr. Catherine Birndorf + Paige Bellenbaum of The Motherhood Center
How do we talk to ourselves, take care of ourselves, and come together in a time of postpartum (and pandemic) to support maternal mental health? We spoke with Dr. Catherine Birndorf and Paige Bellenb…
Episode 8: Birth In the time of coronavirus: Paige Carroll, CPM and Blair Hicks, CNM
As we continue to explore COVID-19 through the lens of mothers and women, we wanted to learn more about how the birthing and postpartum experience has been impacted. To help us look at this topic fro…