An IBCLC can assist you with breastfeeding challenges both simple and complex, including:
- Adjusting to life with a newborn
- Adoptive nursing
- Anesthesia
- Baby wearing
- Biting
- Bottles
- Breast refusal
- Choosing a pump
- Cleft lip / cleft palate
- Colic
- Cultural issues
- Dealing with criticism
- Dental and oral health
- Disabled or handicapped mothers or babies
- Elimination patterns
- Failure to thrive
- Fertility issues
- Frequency of breastfeeding
- Getting enough sleep
- How to tell baby is getting enough milk
- How the birthing affects breastfeeding
- Introducing solids
- Losing weight after childbirth
- Low milk supply
- Medications
- Milk banking and milk sharing
- Milk storage
- Nipple confusion
- Normal newborn behavior
- Nursing during pregnancy
- Nursing multiples
- Nursing outside of the home
- Nursing strikes
- Overactive letdown
- Dummies
- Postnatal depression
- Premature babies
- Preparing to breastfeed
- Pumping issues
- Reduction and augmentation surgeries
- Reflux
- Relactation
- Returning to work
- Scheduling
- Sexual abuse
- Sick mother or baby
- Sore breasts – mastitis, plugged ducts, abcesses
- Suckling difficulties
- Sore nipples
- Surgery
- Tandem nursing
- Too much milk
- Weaning, including night weaning
- Yeast/thrush
If it becomes evident that a tongue tie may be impacting on breastfeeding, we can diagnose this and refer you to your local NHS tongue tie clinic or to one of the private tongue tie specialists that we work with.
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