Certified Lactation Consultant.
Providing Personalized Breastfeeding Support &
Bringing Women Back to Mother Knows Best
If you’ve found yourself here looking for breastfeeding help, you’re in the right place.
I am an Edmonton-based lactation consultant, also serving mothers in Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Sturgeon County, Fort Saskatchewan, Beaumont, Ardrossan, and Spruce Grove. For visits beyond these locations, please head to the contact page to reach out and we can discuss travel fees.
As an IBCLC and an RN, I’m trained and certified to help you to get to the place where you want to be: mother knows best. If you’re seeking help with any part of your breastfeeding journey, I’m here for you. Time moves so fast when it comes to little ones, and you didn’t have your baby to spend all of your baby bubble time worrying about milk. I’m here to give you your time back. You just expanded your family, and you deserve to enjoy that time as much as possible.
As a lactation consultant, I help with feeding issues from prenatal class-consultation hybrids, all the way through weaning- including all of the sticky areas in between: sore and damaged nipples, problems with milk supply, bottle or breast aversions, going back to work, your baby using your nipples as teething rings, etc. I’m here to help!
Women are are made to assume that breastfeeding will “just happen”, and that it’s natural and easy; that there will be no speed bumps along the way. When that isn’t the case, mothers can feel disappointed, ashamed, angry, and frustrated. That is where an IBCLC can be instrumental to helping you towards being successful with your feeding goals that you want for yourself and for your baby.
Lactation consulting is an art- it requires creative problem solving, because there’s no single solution for any one problem. Breastfeeding is a relationship, and working through issues means that we’re looking for issues on both sides of that relationship. We’re are a part of the solution when it comes to feeding issues, as well as in planning to succeed. I exist to listen, to brainstorm, to be a source of support. I set up my work days in order to have the time to sit with you and actually listen, with an intent to get you closer to where you want to be- my typical first appointment is 2 hours long. In comparison, the average doctor’s office appointment is slotted for 15 minutes, and the majority of family doctors and pediatricians without an IBCLC title have little to no lactation-specific training. Doctors are essential to mothers, but they just sincerely can’t be versed in every aspect of human life. And that’s okay, but it’s also letting mothers down when they assume that they will be able to problem-solve at their baby’s two week appointment after delivery, or at their six week follow-up with their OBGYN/family doctor.
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