Whether your goal is to breastfeed for a few weeks, a few months, a year, or until your child self weans, I'm happy to provide you encouragement and evidence based information.
A Typical Lactation Consultation
Typically 1-1/2 to 2 hours
- Identify your unique breastfeeding goals and any concerns
- Gather a medical history including previous births, breastfeeding experiences and breast surgeries
- Gather information on how breastfeeding has been going
- Weigh your baby and gather any medical history
- Perform a suck evaluation and complete exam of your baby's oral structures as well as reflexes
- Observe a complete breastfeeding session
- Provide a written care plan to confirm goals and address any concerns or feeding issues
- Provide a written report to your care provider
- 30 minutes of telephone or e-mail follow up support
- Identify your unique breastfeeding goals and any concerns
- Gather a medical history including previous births, breastfeeding experiences and breast surgeries
- Gather information on how breastfeeding has been going
- Weigh your baby and gather any medical history
- Perform a suck evaluation and complete exam of your baby's oral structures as well as reflexes
- Observe a complete breastfeeding session
- Provide a written care plan to confirm goals and address any concerns or feeding issues
- Provide a written report to your care provider
- 30 minutes of telephone or e-mail follow up support
When to call...
Mother's Challenges
- Painful Feedings
- Perceived low milk supply
- Oversupply/Overactive Let Down
- Plugged ducts/Mastitis
- Nipple Shield Use/Weaning
- Returning to Work
- Poor Latch
- Premature Birth
- Slow Weight Gain
- Sleepy at Breast
- Colic
- Oral Tethers/Post Frenotomy Care
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