As a mother myself, and someone who has worked with parents since 2003, I understand the sorts of feeding and parenting challenges that you might be facing with your baby. Rest assured I am here to walk beside you and support you every step of the way and take a compassionate, empathetic approach to each challenge you might be facing. Below are just some of the infant feeding issues I can support you and your baby to navigate.

I have personal experience and special interests in infant feeding in neurodiverse families (e.g., ASD, ADHD), feeding premature babies, babies born through assisted conception and feeding in childcare settings.

My support for you doesn’t stop as your baby grows. 

Early days

  • Antenatal infant feeding education, preparation for infant feeding, and planning for success
  • Achieving a comfortable latch
  • Encouraging a reluctant baby to attach to the breast
  • Experimenting with varying feeding positions
  • Managing engorgement
  • Preventing and overcoming nipple pain or damage
  • Preventing and overcoming breast pain

Bottle feeding

  • Bottle refusal
  • Coughing and gagging
  • Bringing up milk after a feed
  • Concerns around intake
  • Pacing a feed
  • Weaning off formula supplements
  • Mixed feeding

Managing your milk supply

  • Concerns about your baby’s weight gain
  • Too much milk
  • Low supply

Unsettled babies

  • Crying, unsettled or fussy babies
  • Infant sleep and settling

Assessment and/or referrals

  • Tongue tie/lip tie
  • Food sensitivities

Special circumstances

  • Supporting parents of premature or hospitalised babies
  • Infant feeding twins and multiples
  • Weaning off nipple shields
  • Re-lactation and inducing lactation

Older babies

  • Feeding your baby and older child (aka tandem nursing)
  • Weaning your baby from the breast
  • Starting your baby on solid foods
  • Feeding and fertility
  • Growing your family
  • Preparing your older child for a new baby

Returning to work

  • Expressing, storing, and providing your expressed breast milk to your baby
  • Preparing for returning to work, study, or other separation from your baby
  • Transitioning to childcare

Basic baby care

  • Swaddling, sleep and settling
  • Nappy changing
  • Bathing
  • Dressing
  • How to play and interact with your baby
  • Bottle and lactation aid cleaning and care
  • Formula preparation

Parenting

  • Understanding baby & child development
  • Attachment & bonding
  • Managing life with a baby
  • Balancing caring for your baby AND yourself
  • Adjusting to parenthood
  • Guiding your child’s behaviour
  • Gentle parenting