Prenatal Home Visit

At a 90-minute prenatal visit, we'll talk about:

  • What the first hours of your baby's life might look like with regard to breastfeeding

  • What you can do to protect the "golden hour" - your first opportunity to establish a primal extra-uterine connection with your baby

  • The importance of maintaining the integrity of your baby's microbiome, skin-to-skin contact and early and frequent nursing

  • What your partner can do to help facilitate breastfeeding and how to avoid or manage early discomfort

  • What the signs are that your baby is drinking colostrum and eventually transitional milk from your breasts

Postpartum Home Visit​

At a 2 hour home visit, here's what happens:

  • A full medical, pregnancy and birth history will be taken (the day before we meet)

  • Observation of a full feeding 

  • Pre- and post-feed weighing to determine intake from your breasts, if needed

  • Attention to comfortable positioning and latch technique

  • Comprehensive oral and structural exams

  • Observation of a pumping session, flange-fitting and milk storage education

  • Nutritional support for your milk supply and postpartum wellness

  • Education around bottle feeding, including positioning, pacing and teat options

  • Creation of a sustainable feeding care plan, with your input, that will evolve as feeding improves

  • I just finished working with Barbara today after two weeks and she is absolutely amazing!!!!! My supply disappeared after being sick and she was able to help me get it back better than ever! This is my 4th child and I thought I had nursing down…nope! Barbara taught me what to look for regarding hunger cues and because of this my one month old sleeps through the night and has no indigestion anymore! She also taught me how to properly use my pump and it turns out I was not even properly sized for the flanges. My freezer is now full of milk, my baby nurses like a champ and I’m getting sleep. Barbara was super responsive and made a lot of time for me. She sat through a nursing session with me coaching me along. I cannot recommend her enough!!!! I’d give her more than 5 stars!

    — Kimberly

  • Barbara is WONDERFUL and just the best!!! I worked with her for two months, and she was patient, kind, listened to my needs and tailored her approach for my family. You can tell that Barbara is truly invested in your child’s well-being. She spent so much time with me and my son, and was always available for FaceTime or texts. She was even more helpful than our pediatrician when our son started to refuse the bottle. I worked with another LC before Barbara, and I am sad I didn’t find Barbara first.

    — Mili

  • Barbara is fantastic! I reached out to her when we were having feeding issues with my son and we set up a visit to her office within a few days. She was able to provide me with support for nursing, pumping, and bottle feeding and had incredibly helpful tips for each that completely changed our feeding journey. I can't compliment her highly enough on how her suggestions have helped us. With her suggestions I was able to nurse more comfortably (even without a nursing pillow!), I was able to more than double my pumping output and our bottle feeds with our son sped up considerably as we implemented the exercises and changes she suggested. If you are having feeding issues it is so worth reaching out to a qualified IBCLC for some help. She also provided a very detailed report that we shared with our pediatrician who complimented how thorough it was. I highly recommend working with Barbara!

    — Anne-Marie