Lactation Consultant

Is there anything more frustrating than your newborn seemingly refusing your wonderful gift of milk? Getting your baby to latch can be a huge challenge and one that can make or break your nursing career. There are lots of different things to try so I will list a few as well as share [...]

In the hopital, I was told I would know my baby was properly latched if the entire areola of my breast was in his mouth while nursing. This in fact was bad information because it caused me to put the nipple in the middle of his mouth, instead of positioning it to be taken [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]