See details of my services and fees here.
Contact me for an initial no-obligation free consultation. I look forward to hearing from you!
I work alongside your midwife, health visitor and GP to offer the following:
Free email information
- Local breastfeeding support groups, drop-in clinics and Baby Cafés
- Lnks to websites for breastfeeding information and support
- Follow-up after paid support (see below)
Free telephone consultation
- Up to 15 minutes' discussion of your needs, and brief suggestions for problem-solving and free help available
- No obligation for further contact
- Individualised preparation during the last 6-8 weeks of pregnancy
- In the comfort of your own home, or at my home if you prefer
- Partners or significant others encouraged to join in
- Joint discussion:
- previous feeding experience, to discover what happened and possible reasons for problems
- birth expectations and individual needs
- how breastfeeding works, with video/DVD and various teaching aids
- expressing milk by hand or pump (especially if complications are expected)
- induced lactation (eg for adopted baby) or relactation
- continuing breastfeeding after return to work
- baby-led weaning to solid food
- bottle-feeding with expressed milk or formula (if desired)
- Suggestions for birth and the first few hours, to ensure feeding gets going well
- Written information and weblinks for future reference
- Free email follow-up
Cost: £70 for a 2-hour session, further follow-up session if desired at £50, plus travel @50p/mile
Home consultation in a 20-mile radius of Aldershot
- Early check within the first 2-3 days, to ensure all goes well, as a follow-up on Preparation for Breastfeeding session (hospital visits by arrangement)
- Help with finding comfortable positions for feeding
- Problem-solving - sore nipples, attachment issues, slow weight gain, mastitis etc
- Referral to others if necessary (eg for tongue-tie treatment or cranial osteopathy)
- Help with expressing milk
- Support for stopping breastfeeding, if needed or desired
- Relactation or induced lactation, and use of feeding aids
- Help with bottle-feeding, if needed or desired
- Visits to my home if out of area
- Free telephone and email follow-up until problems resolved
Pre-arranged telephone consultation
At a mutually convenient time for discussion on any matter, eg:
- previous feeding experience, to discover what happened and possible reasons for problems
- birth expectations and individual needs
- how breastfeeding works
- suggestions for labour, birth and the first few hours, to ensure feeding gets going well
- problem-solving for sore nipples, attachment difficulties, mastitis etc
- expressing milk by hand or pump
- continuing breastfeeding after return to work
- baby-led weaning to solid food
- bottle-feeding with expressed milk or formula
- coming to terms with unresolved breastfeeding problems
- free email follow-up
Cost: 50p/minute, with the first 15 minutes free; clients to bear the cost of the call.