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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:

  • 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

We can also assist in recommending specialist physiotherapy groups to work in conjunction with Guy and your lactation consultant who utilise therapeutic ultrasound to unblock milk ducts.

There is no absolute way of ensuring you do not get Mastitis however, there are several things to be aware of to help you reduce the chances of Mastitis. These are:

  • Beware of oversupply of milk.
  • Manage cracked nipples to reduce the opportunity for infection.
  • There is evidence to show that Probiotics reduces the chance of Mastitis.
  • Learn to manage blocked milk ducts

Mastitis is a more serious issue and will in many cases require antibiotics, effective drainage of the breast and therapeutic ultrasound in order to fix the problem.

It is important you ring our rooms and speak with our Midwives should you develop any symptoms.