Want to Transform Early Lactation Care?

The first hours and days of breastfeeding are so unique.

A new baby, a new identity for a mother, and so many firsts.

First latch, first cry, first wet diaper, first time skin to skin, and so on.

Everything is intense and technicolor, and everything feels important to document and remember.

For those of us supporting the new family, we sometimes struggle with our role: how hands-off can we be while still meeting our responsibility to keep them safe?

How can we ever be sure breastfeeding is going well?

This isn’t just a blog about breastfeeding.

I’m here to support everyone whose role it is to support and nurture the breastfeeding family.

This Substack is built to strengthen the connections between the practice of lactation support and the rest of the universe of health and well-being.

More than twenty years of lactation care in multiple settings and from multiple vantage points have given me some insights, which I share here, along with ideas, inspiration, and resources designed to help you grow in your lactation career.

Feelings of isolation, frustration, and a sense of working uphill are all too common in our space.

Join me here for the boost you need to fulfill this role well - that we can work together to share what is important about breastfeeding, human milk, and the practice of lactation care.

Effective early lactation care requires the ability to remain focused on what CAN be affected or improved in the moment, what is normal, and what will need to be addressed going forward.

In this episode, I’m sharing an overview of The First 100 Hours and what holistic early lactation care means because that’s a question I sometimes receive in The Lactation Consultant’s Inbox.

I want it to be clear that this is a whole system of care that everyone can use. Take a listen and let me know how it lands with you.

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As always, thank you for everything you do for babies and their parents!

P.S. I wrote a book about the First 100 Hours!