Lactation Consultant

Before my son was born, I knew I wanted to breast feed but was clueless about what it would entail. I imagined that he would start suckling seconds after leaving the womb and off we’d go, feeding with ease. Reality had a different story that started with induction, 20 hours of labor, 2 hours [...]

As I was relaxing during a much needed pedicure the other day, I flipped through my latest issue of Fit Pregnancy Magazine. (Not pregnant, but still have a subscription). Thinking I was just taking some well-deserved time off from full-time mom-hood, I was alarmed to find out that the pampering activity I was participating in [...]

For the first three months of my son’s life, I nursed every two hours, round the clock. Sleep deprived and focused on establishing good nursing, I stayed close to home and on the couch. At around 4 months, I was going crazy and needed to rejoin the living world and so embarked on “adventures in [...]

One thing I wish I had known before I had my baby was that breastfeeding could be painful and challenging. I know this is not the case for some women. For me personally, I thought that breastfeeding would be a blissful bonding experience between my daughter and me. Instead, I suffered from boughts of thrush [...]

Pumping can be very frustrating when you feel like you’re not able to express enough milk. For some women, they can pump several ounces in just ten minutes while others can only seem to get one ounce or two ounces after pumping for a half an hour. For me, I was never able to [...]