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At MomStory, our team of highly experienced and compassionate Lactation Consultants offers comprehensive support and guidance for mothers and babies to overcome breastfeeding challenges. These services often include lactation counselling provided by certified lactation consultants or trained professionals. Our Breastfeeding Consultants assist with issues such as latch difficulties, low milk supply, nipple pain, and feeding problems. They also offer advice on expressing milk, nursing twins or multiples, and breastfeeding premature or sick infants. Additionally, these consultations can help working mothers plan for successful and uninterrupted breastfeeding while managing their work commitments. Overall, breastfeeding consultation aims to ensure that mothers and babies receive the best support for a successful breastfeeding journey.
What to expect when you visit a lactation consultant at MomStory?
- Offering all-encompassing prenatal information and counselling to ensure optimal care for both babies and mothers.
- Assessing and assisting with latch establishment for babies having difficulty latching.
- Evaluating milk transfer to identify and address potential low milk supply or flow issues.
- Diagnosing causes of nipple and breast pain in breastfeeding mothers.
- Identifying factors contributing to slow weight gain in breastfed babies.
- Investigating possible reasons for fussiness in breastfed infants.
- Educating mothers on recognizing early feeding cues in babies.
- Providing guidance for breastfeeding twins.
- Addressing factors in older babies who refuse or pull at the breast.
- Educating on the use of electric breast pumps for milk expression.
- Offering advice on complementary feeding.
When should mothers visit a Lactation Consultant at MomStory?
- Insufficient weight gain in the baby.
- Baby experiencing difficulties with sucking.
- Persistent soreness of nipples.
- Flat or inverted nipples.
- Severe breast engorgement.
- Issues with milk supply (excessive or inadequate).
- Breastfeeding an adopted baby.
- Relactation.
- Challenges with breastfeeding technique.
- Breastfeeding a baby with special needs due to illness or prematurity.
- Nursing twins or triplets.
- A working mother seeking to maintain breastfeeding.
