AMS Lactation

Services

Prenatal Consultations

  • Discuss questions or concerns before delivery.
  • Learn what to expect before/after your milk comes in.
  • Understand your baby’s feeding cues.

Latching & Positioning

  • Is the baby latching ok?
  • Am I holding the baby in the right position?
  • Why am I feeling pain when I latch the baby on?

Milk Supply

  • How to tell if your milk is coming in.
  • Building and maintaining milk supply.
  • Massage/expressing milk.
  • Amounts of milk to expect.
  • Different kinds of breast pumps.
  • Wet and poo diapers and how many to expect – amount and color of poop.
  • Supplementing breast milk/formula.
  • Baby weight gain.

Nipple care

  • Cracked nipples.
  • Use of nipple creams, nipple shells, nipple shields.
  • Nipple infection – symptoms.
  • Nipple Trauma

Complications

Unusual signs/complications to watch out for.

  • Engorgement.
  • Nipple yeast.
  • Plugged ducts.
  • Mastitis.