Lactation Consultations
This service is offered at Maple Shores Health Centre by Emily Gaudreau.
What is Lactation Consulting Support?
As a new parent, you can expect an Lactation consultant to assist you with all your lactation needs, from helping you design a workday pumping schedule and storage plan to finding the best breastfeeding position for you.
Lactation Consultants can also assist you with common lactation pitfalls, like low milk supply, breastfeeding pain, and conditions like mastitis and plugged ducts. Or if your baby is struggling to latch or isn’t gaining weight properly, your lactation consultant can determine how to improve feeding sessions, develop special feeding schedules for babies who are premature, and even provide a referral to another healthcare professional if your condition needs further attention.
Who can assess a lactation consultant?
Anyone who is pregnant, planning on adopting a baby(yes, you can breastfeed them!), bottle feeding, or breastfeeding a baby of any age. Formula feeding can also offer unique challenges, lactation consultants can also help with those issues.
What are the benefits?
Research shows that seeing a lactation consultant can help improve the initiation, duration, and exclusivity of breastfeeding.
Breast milk is tailor made for your baby and is the best food for them!
Breastmilk has lifelong benefits for the breastfeeding parent and baby.
The Effectiveness of Lactation Consultants and Lactation Counselors on Breastfeeding Outcomes. December2015 Journal of Human Lactation 32(3)
Breastfeeding and Health Outcomes for the Mother-Infant Dyad, February 2013 Pediatric Clinics of North America 60(1)p. 31-48