Welcome to BF Lactation for Breastfeeding support!
Why choose Breastmilk for your baby(ies)? Breast milk is proven to be the best nutrition, the gold standard for infants. Breast milk is the easiest milk for babies to digest. Breastfeeding creates a wonderful attachment with baby, while providing natural nutrition, and passive immunity. Breastfeeding can mean providing breast milk even beyond latching at the breast! My goal is to help provide breastfeeding support to new families, to help you meet your breastfeeding goals.
Do you need support? Breastfeeding is instinct combined with troubleshooting. Many new parents need support in the first days, and even the first months and beyond. Our medical institutions may not always provide a lactation education to expectant moms, and often medical staff that serve us in labor and delivery, aren’t educated in lactation. Consequently, many new parents go home from delivery with challenges that require support. IBCLCs are specialists in lactation; our main role is to help improve breastfeeding outcomes for lactating families.
I’m an IBCLC (lactation consultant) who is passionate about working with women/parents in lactation. BREAST FRIEND Lactation offers support through prenatal education and postpartum guidance in breastfeeding & pumping, offering techniques to help you succeed in breastfeeding. If you’re wanting to pump, or plan a Return to Work, you may want to learn about pumping and flange fit.
Reach out anytime before or during your lactating journey. 🙂
Services Provided
Having a lactation education prior to your baby’s birth can help to prepare you for breastfeeding. Having support in breastfeeding postnatally, is like having a Breast Friend to help you.
I help provide lactation guidance and support, with information to help make sense during the breastfeeding journey. I understand that each situation is unique and will determine what is needed.
Offering:
1. Prenatal Lactation Education & Consultation
2. Postpartum Lactation Consultation (Latch Assessment)
3. Followup Lactation Consultation (Any unresolved issues)
Of Breast Pump/Flange consultation (Pump/flange fitting)
These can be in the privacy of your home, or virtual (some support is limited in virtual sessions).
Consultations:
1. Prenatal Lactation & Education Consult
If you’re pregnant, and planning to provide breast milk for when your baby arrives, BF Lactation offers a prenatal education. This class is intended to provide a comprehensive understanding on what to expect in breastfeeding. Obtaining an education prior to delivery, is an effective tool for your best breastfeeding outcomes. This can include an assessment for breastfeeding.
You can sign up anytime. In-person or virtual. Bring your questions; can include one partner.
2. Postpartum Lactation Consult
Breastfeeding concerns after baby has arrived?
Sore nipples/damage? Breast pain? Unsure if baby is latching properly? Baby not gaining weight adequately? BF Lactation provides support to help achieve a proper latching, efficient milk transfer, and knowledge on how to keep/build up the milk supply. Each lactation consultation will be tailored to your needs, which typically includes an observed feed/weighted feed. A care plan is provided along with referrals as needed. 
3. Followup Lactation Consult
Follow-Up Lactation Support may be needed if issues have not resolved, or new issues have presented. This consult may also help to confirm that things are going well!
Can be in-person or virtual, depending on the needs.
Or
Breast Pump/Flange fitting Consult
Planning a Return to Work? Wanting to Pump milk for storage? Need a flange fit?Wanting to understand how breast pumps work? Questions about pumping at work? I offer support to help guide you in your pumping journey, understand about milk storage, and to promote the Pump Law.
I know what it’s like to need support! My personal experience includes breastfeeding my own 3 children for 4.5 years. Near the end of my breastfeeding journey, I became a 7-year volunteer for the hospital program that supported me! In recent years I’ve worked in a clinic as a breastfeeding specialist, communicating with many mothers/parents about their breastfeeding journeys. So many shared their struggles in breastfeeding, whether it be just after baby is delivered, or months down the road. In this I recognize that new mothers are willing to accept an issue is with them, but many times the struggle is due to a lack of knowledge on how lactation works. My goal is to help change this!
Prenatal Education Consult
Prenatal Consult/w Lactation Education provides an assessment, and a great foundation of how lactation works before your baby arrives!
In Person or Virtual.
60+ minutes
Initial Lactation Consult
A Lactation Consult provides an assessment, with the focus of supporting your goals.
In-person preferred.
Virtual if needed.
60-120 minutes
Follow-up Lactation Consult or Pump/flange Consult fitting
Follow-up lactation services
or Pump/flange fitting.
In-Person or virtual
