Lactation Consultation

Breastfeeding Support

Breastfeeding offers crucial nutrition that is important for growth and development for infants from birth to one year and even beyond. However, like any new skill, many breastfeeding parents and their babies often require guidance and support.

That's Where We Come In!

We have a high number of breastfeeding families. We will do our best to help you meet your breastfeeding goals. Any breastmilk you feed your infant is a gift of health for your child that lasts their lifetime. It supports their immunity, anatomy and even their development.

We respect each family's feeding decisions. We do encourage moms to breastfeed exclusively or give only breastmilk for the first six months then continue to breastfeed and give solid foods, beginning at 4-6 months, until your baby is a year old.

We love babies and enjoy helping families learn how to breastfeed! We will help you as little or as much as you need. We provide in-office feeding evaluations for hands-on help as well as phone support for any questions you may have along your breastfeeding journey.

Some areas we can provide guidance include:

  • Positioning your baby at the breast
  • Optimizing supply
  • Latching
  • Caring for your breasts and nipples
  • Assessing milk transfer
  • Assuring adequate nutrition
  • Assembling and using a breast pump, including sizing for the appropriate flange
  • Storing milk
  • Avoiding nipple confusion/transitioning from bottle to breast
  • 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

Please call our office to schedule an appointment.

Resources:


  • Books: Nursing your Baby by Karen Pryor, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La leche League (8th edition) and The Nursing Mother's Companion by Kathleen Huggins, R.N. 


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