Episodes 52
Avg. Duration 21m
Activity Dormant
Since Nov 2022
Latest Episode May 2025

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Daily
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Episodic
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About This Podcast

Welcome to the Holding Time Podcast. Here we discuss breastfeeding in all it’s complexity - the ups and down, the challenges, the triumphs. Whether you are expectant, a new mother or simply interested, I hope you’ll appreciate the incredible warrior women who are managing to breastfeed babies across the country. This podcast is part of the Holding Time Project, an experimental intervention in chronically low breastfeeding statistics. Through music, art and writing, we’re looking at the reality of breastfeeding and listening to mothers who know a thing or two about how things could be better.

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Recent Episodes

Holding Time Featuring Rachel

May 26, 2025 19m

“I always just assumed that I would give birth and just breastfeed, and that would be it. It would be this natural, straightforward thing.”“It's not just feeding them. If they hurt themselves, you…

Holding Time Featuring Hannah

May 26, 2025 24m

"I would see people passing the house and I would just daydream and think, ‘I wonder if they breastfed their baby? I wonder if they found it hard?’ And I was thinking that about people I didn’t even…

Holding Time Featuring Sinead

May 25, 2025 28m

"I researched so much about it, put so much effort into it and it just still wasn't working." "My mum was amazed at how much I knew about it, you know, from what I'd researched and how much I'd been…

Holding Time Featuring Alison

May 25, 2025 26m

"It’s about having choices, being informed, and feeling in control of my body and birth. That’s what I wanted.""I think it's really lovely to be able to, you know, enjoy breastfeeding, which was…

Holding Time Featuring Rana

May 24, 2025 25m

"I felt incomplete at times, but I kept going. Because motherhood isn’t about perfection—it’s about perseverance.""It’s not just about feeding; it’s about connection, about learning, and about…

Holding Time Featuring Madeleine

May 24, 2025 26m

"Breastfeeding isn’t just about feeding—it’s about connection, comfort, and transformation."Maddie, a medical doctor and mother to a three-year-old, describes breastfeeding as a transformative…

S3 Holding Time Featuring Reena

May 23, 2025 27m

"I wholeheartedly appreciate what my body went through in order to give me two beautiful children. I cherish that.""I think my biggest hurdle after pregnancy was being told, ‘Oh, you’ll just know…

Holding Time Featuring Alexandra

May 23, 2025 26m

"I was really determined to breastfeed. I just knew I’d power through it no matter what.""The reality of motherhood and birth and all of that is very, like, dirty and it’s grizzly and it’s just very…

Holding Time Featuring Clare

May 22, 2025 27m

"I 100 percent wanted to breastfeed. I knew about the benefits for mum and baby, and just thought it was something that I would do without question.""I was desperate to know any detail to make me…

Holding Time Featuring Salma

May 22, 2025 23m

"Throughout my pregnancies, I had Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction… where my hips no longer like each other or any other muscle in my body.""When the baby latches on, if the baby's got a particular…

Holding Time Featuring Ruth

May 21, 2025 20m

"I think being pregnant was the first time in my life I appreciated my body."Ruth, a mother of three, shares her journey and reflections on breastfeeding, childbirth, and motherhood. Her…

Holding Time Featuring Leanne

May 21, 2025 32m

“Increasing exposure through the media and making sure that it’s encouraged in cafes and things like that would take the individual responsibility away from the mums a little bit more.”Leanne shares…

Holding Time Featuring Deqa

May 20, 2025 27m

"If society saw breastfeeding as normal, mothers wouldn’t feel the pressure to hide or change their choices."Deqa, a Community Engagement Lead for the Women's Health and Maternity Programme, shares…

Holding Time Featuring Victoria

May 20, 2025 26m

"The distance for me of where my baby was, in comparison to where I was... I sort of resented having to express and not be with him."Victoria reflects on her experience of balancing work and…

Holding Time Featuring Kayleigh

May 19, 2025 26m

"It’s not right and it’s not fair... everywhere should be breastfeeding friendly because it is our right, it is literally legally protected."“I had a lot of guilt and shame that I've had to work…

Holding Time Featuring Mahum

May 19, 2025 17m

"When I was three weeks postpartum, I reached out to the breastfeeding clinic. I was in tears on the phone, like, I don’t know if I can do this.""It’s about talking to and having that support system…

Holding Time Featuring Stacey

Jan 03, 2025 26m

"When COVID hit... I was adamant, I am not going to stop breastfeeding this child because we don’t know what this is."Stacey’s story reflects her resilience in overcoming institutional and personal…

Holding Time Featuring Benash

Dec 27, 2024 33m

“There’s definitely some very real fear that… people go in to have babies, that they’re going to be told that they have to breastfeed, and that is it” Benash, a Specialist Cultural Liaison Midwife,…

Holding Time Featuring Frances

Dec 20, 2024 27m

"I think a lot of the pressure for me came from myself... Without this being something that I was consciously thinking at the time, I think I wanted to get it right. I wanted to kind of succeed at…

Holding Time Featuring Zoe

Dec 13, 2024 27m

"People mean well, don't they? They're like, 'Oh, you know, give yourself a break, give them a bottle.' But when you're really trying to make breastfeeding work, it's kind of not what you want to…

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The Holding Time Podcast has published 52 episodes since November 2022, covering topics in Kids & Family, Parenting.

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