International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)

An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
is a breastfeeding specialist.

Lactation Consultants can help with..

Adoptive breastfeeding
Building a milk supply
Infants with tongue tie
Infants with clefts of the lip and/or palate
Infants with other medical or special feeding needs
Latch
Mothers who have had breast surgery: reduction, implants, biopsies, one-sided nursing
Mother’s milk feeding when feeding at the breast is not possible
Multiple births; twins or more (yes, you can!)
Overactive letdown and oversupply
Prenatal consults: what to expect and how to get off to a good start
Plugged ducts
Relactation
Returning to work or school
Use of breastfeeding aids: pumps, shields, at breast supplementers

Supporting Breastfeeding. Supporting mothers.
Lactation Consultations in your home.

certified lactation consultant Supporting Breastfeeding Building milk supply

certified lactation consultant Latch Infants tongue tie

certified lactation consultant Plugged ducts Plugged ducts

certified lactation consultant Use of breastfeeding aids Relactation pumps, shields

About Breastfeeding

"If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally balanced, delicious food , a wonder drug that both prevented and treated disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock market.

The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically. Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since the beginning of human existence..."

Gabrielle Palmer, in The Politics of Breastfeeding, London: Pandora Press, 1988, page 1.