- Baby attachment problems including
- positioning the baby onto the breast, nipple variation and tongue tie
- Milk supply (too much or not enough)
- Mother experiencing pain during attachment and feeding
- Vaso Spasm: symptoms include discomfort and shooting pains
- Breast thrush: symptoms include discomfort and shooting pains
- Mastitis: symptoms are high fevers, pain and redness
- Blocked milks ducts
- Sleepy baby
- Post premature birth:
- Tongue tie
- Cracked nipples
Breast Feeding and Lactation Consultation
Whether this is your first baby or your third, many women after the birth of their baby require breast feeding support. With years of experience in working and caring for our patients we understand how important feeding help and support is beyond the hospital.
That is why we have a highly experienced lactation consultant who visits our rooms weekly, offering personalised, one on one sessions, to our patients for all their feeding issues. This service is also available for further telephone support where distance may be a problem.
Please contact our rooms to speak with one of our Private Practice Midwives to explore if this option is for you.
Planning for expected feeding challenges is also available.

Some Of The More Common Breastfeeding Issues Are:
It is important you ring our rooms and speak with our Midwives should you develop any symptoms.