Maternal Health, Pain & Medical Needs
- Persistent Pain & Wounds: Ongoing breast or nipple pain, perineal or incision discomfort, mastitis, breast abscesses, or dermatological conditions of the breast and baby's mouth.
- Prescriptions & Medical Orders: Need for clinical labs, cultures, diagnostic imaging, prescription medications, or authorized prescriptions for banked donor milk.
- Hormonal & Chronic Conditions: Management of chronic low milk supply across successive pregnancies, prior breast surgeries, or newly diagnosed maternal health conditions.
- Postpartum & Emotional Wellness: Integrated physician care for postpartum depression, hormonal imbalances, birth trauma recovery, or grieving a lactation failure.
Personal, High-Touch Physician Care
- Low-Intervention & Home Births: We honor natural birth choices and warmly welcome babies following uncomplicated home births, birth center births, or low-intervention hospital stays who simply need a supportive, experienced medical home.
- Hands-On, In-Person Evaluation: When you are uncomfortable relying on AI, internet search forums, or phone/video consults—and know you need your baby's latch and feeding behavior evaluated in person by an experienced physician.
- Appropriate Clinical Triage: Urgent concerns are triaged to ensure safety, with dedicated time set aside to focus thoroughly on your family.
- Conflicting Advice & Advocacy: When you’ve been given conflicting information from multiple sources, or another provider told you to stop breastfeeding/supplement, and you want an expert medical strategy to make breastfeeding work.
- Prenatal & Extended Care: Pre-conception planning, prenatal breastfeeding plans to optimize the birth/postpartum transition, and guidance for extended nursing, bedsharing, or specialized maternal elimination diets.
Decades of Clinical Experience
- 26+ Years as an IBCLC: Decades of clinical practice dedicated specifically to advanced breastfeeding medicine and maternal-infant care.
- Personal & Professional Foundation: Over 14 years of continuous personal breastfeeding experience, including tandem nursing, nursing through pregnancy, working full-time, and pumping.
- Independent Practice: A small, autonomous practice dedicated to protecting your birth and breastfeeding space without hospital or corporate mandates.
