Lactation Consultation
Breastfeeding Support
Breastfeeding provides essential nutrition for infants birth to one year and older. As with learning anything new, most breastfeeding parents and babies need some instruction and support during this learning period.
That's Where We Come In!
We provide one-on-one breastfeeding consultations tailored for the unique needs of you and your baby. We provide instruction on positioning and latch techniques and pumping, and emphasize comfort. We can help prevent and treat common breastfeeding issues such as sore nipples, engorgement, and undersupply or oversupply. Our approach is grounded in the latest evidence-based practices to support successful breastfeeding.
Some areas we can provide guidance include:
- Positioning your baby at the breast
- Latching
- Caring for your breasts and nipples
- Assessing milk transfer
- Assuring adequate nutrition
- Assembling and using a breast pump, including sizing for the right size flange
- Storing milk
- Returning to work/school while breastfeeding
- Traveling and breastfeeding
- Training a breastfeeding baby to a bottle
- Teething while breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding premature babies
- Managing slow weight gain babies
- Breastfeeding twins
- Breastfeeding babies with special medical needs such as cleft palate, Down Syndrome, and heart conditions
- Managing medications, medical tests or surgery while breastfeeding