I love to enable mothers to help themselves, so their babies can help themselves too! Breastfeeding is meant to be really enjoyable and pain-free. But because of common UK birth practices, it may take time for mothers and babies to get it going easily. Early support for encouragement and problem-solving can make all the difference. I offer individualised pre-birth breastfeeding preparation, to complement NHS antenatal classes, and home visits for general support and problem-solving. I also offer telephone and email consultations.

More about me: I am a former midwife and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and Media Liaison for Lactation Consultants of Great Britain. (Find out more about Lactation Consultants here) In 1999 I won the British Hospital for Mothers and Babies Breastfeeding Award. I worked as Infant Feeding Adviser in a shared post in a Surrey hospital for 5 years; now I help mothers voluntarily and through my private practice. My aim is to help parents make informed choices on infant feeding, and I'm qualified to give information and assistance with every aspect of breastfeeding in the first 2 years. I also give support to mothers who wish to reduce or stop breastfeeding, or who weren't able to get it going and need to come to terms with this.

I supported Anna with feeding both Lloyd and Nina.  

Photograph by Michelle Chalmers http://www.freeindex.co.uk/profile(Michelle-Chalmers-Photography)_25522.htm

See page 3 for details of my services and fees.

For a brief email or telephone consultation, with no obligation, send an email through this site (top right of the page), or direct to aliblenk @ hotmail.com (removing the spaces), or ring 01252 337189.

To read FAQs on infant feeding and my answers, click here: http://www.linkable.biz/userimages/FeedingFAQs.doc