PRIVATE LACTATION CONSULTATION
A lactation consultant is trained and certified to help you with any problems or concerns related to breastfeeding your baby (including weaning).
During an individual lactation consultation, Dr Mubaraka can offer reassurance and troubleshoot specific issues with you.
- Teaching different breastfeeding positions and correct latching technique for your baby
- To begin and maintain breastfeeding after a Cesarean-section
- Help you deal with breast and nipple problems such as flat, inverted nipples, pain, engorgement, plugged duct, nipple bleb, mastitis, etc.
- Teach you to recognize your baby’s hunger cues.
- Assess your milk supply and help you to increase, decrease or maintain your milk supply
- Show you how to breastfeed twins, or tandem nurse your baby and toddler
- Work with you to manage breastfeeding after you return to work
- Teach weight gain strategies for preterm babies, low birth weight babies.
- Help parents of babies with tongue tie and other oral restrictions to achieve breastfeeding goals.
- Teach you how to feed a premature baby, or a baby with special needs, post-surgery or in NICU.
- Help those mothers with relactation where she has stopped breastfeeding but wants to get the baby back to the breast
- Expression of milk - hand expression or pump, choosing the correct flange size and technique of pumping
- Storage and handling of expressed breast milk.