Breastfeeding Support
Breastfeeding can be instinctive for baby, but is often something that women need to learn.
Having an expert breastfeeding consultation during pregnancy, or straight after your baby is born, is ideal and will enable you to prepare for a rewarding and empowering relationship with your new baby.
But if like most of us, you wanted to wait and see if you and your baby could do it on your own and are now experiencing difficulties and need a little extra support, we can help you.
We are experienced in all kinds of infant feeding and can assist you with any challenges you may be facing.
Feeding Support is provided by Charly Cooke and Mel Robinson our Infant Feeding Coaches. They will carry out a thorough feeding assessment, support you with your feeding and work with you to formulate a plan to address any issues you are having – helping you to gain more satisfaction from your breastfeeding experience.
What does a Breastfeeding consultation include?
A 60-minute Consultation over Zoom which includes:
- A thorough feeding assessment – observing your baby feed
- Feeding information – responsive feeding, sometimes called ‘feeding on demand’
- The importance of ongoing skin-to-skin contact
- Feeding cues – recognising the early communication signs
- Feeding positioning – tips on getting it right
- Attachment – how to ensure a good latch
- How to identify effective feeding and how to improve things
- Signs of optimal feeding
- Lactation advice, the composition of breast milk, stages of feeding
- Expressing breast milk
- Baby weight and growth chart analysis
- Feeding plan (as required)
- Bottle feeding advice (as required)
- Mixed feeding advice (as required)
- Electronic follow up support information
Problems we can help you solve:
Whatever challenges you are experiencing, we can help. These are some of the most common issues:
- Lack of confidence in positioning and attachment – poor latch
- Sore nipples
- Breastfeeding during the early weeks: baby weight loss; slow weight gain
- Insufficient milk supply or ‘oversupply’
- Mastitis
- Thrush
- Baby fussing at the breast
- Issue arising due to possible Tongue-tie
- Reflux – including cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA)
- Feeding twins
- Expressing breast milk
Can we help you over Zoom?
Yes, we can! The biggest benefit to a zoom consultation is you are in control. We will provide clear instructions, use props to demonstrate, guide you step-by-step, tweak as we go along and return to anything that is not clear, all at a pace you are comfortable with. We know the right questions to ask and we will have a clear picture, prior to the appointment, of the issues you are facing.
Antenatal Breastfeeding Package (£255):
This includes 1 x Antenatal feeding session via Zoom
2 x Postnatal support sessions via Zoom/clinic setting
1 x Sling Consultation (demonstration and correct fitting of your own sling, or consultation on the right sling to buy, via Zoom/at our workshop in Crowborough)
1 x On-line Baby First Aid Course!
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"Every new mum needs a Dee in their life!"
Expecting twins, I was very unsure as to whether I'd be able to breastfeed successfully but knew I really wanted to give it a go. Dee helped me enormously by teaching me the ins and out of breastfeeding, milk production and supply so that I could understand how best to go about making it work. She came to the hospital as soon as the babies were born, showed me how to latch, various positions for single and tandem feeding, what to watch for and was so encouraging and positive at a time when I was hugely overwhelmed and vulnerable.
"Expert advice and a highly professional approach."
Dee provides expert advice and a highly professional approach. She taught me several key breastfeeding skills such as certain holds that have hugely helped. She listened compassionately when I was upset. And the advice she gave was pragmatic and practical. Thank you Dee!
"A lactation consultant to keep hold of..."
Cannot recommend Dee more highly, our newborn was feeding beautifully (so we thought) and was content and satisfied but kept losing weight. Dee came over straight away and gave us a step by step plan that we had been looking for instead of rather woolly advice we had got elsewhere. Within less than 24 hours our baby girl had her first weight gain and has continued to gain. I mentioned Dee and her advice to the cranial osteopath we use and she said that she sounded like a 'lactation consultant to keep hold of' in the myriad of ones out there. Dee's advice was practical and easy to follow and didn't make us feel inadequate.
