The worst part... my dr. and lactation consultant at the hospital didn't believe me!
Not exact matches
In fact, I'm incredibly grateful to the
lactation consultant I worked with
at the
hospital, who, when I started crying, took me in her arms and rocked me gently and told me not to put pressure on myself, that as long I was taking care of my baby I was
doing a great job.
Because I didn't hear about it when I was pregnant and had my babies, and if it's been around for a while obviously the
hospitals that I gave birth in never made any mention of it, so I'm assuming they weren't baby - friendly back then, but after I gave birth I knew that a
lactation consultant was going to go on to the, come into the room, well actually
at the first child you already know the rounds, you know, what's going to happen, you know, how long you're going to be there, all that stuff.
Again I got the
hospital grade pump I don't remember if it was a
lactation consultant at the
hospital but they said you know «The
hospital grade pump will establish your milk flow and the pumps you buy in the store will maintain it.»
Does the
hospital you are looking
at offer a
lactation consultant, level III nursery, refrigerator in postpartum, hair dryer, etc..
What I
did get was 3 meals a day delivered to me, yummy chocolate cake, a
lactation consultant on staff
at my beck and call, a full body massage every day while I was in the
hospital, and, oh yeah, expert care from doctors and nurses with an OR and NICU down the hall if I needed it.
One last thing I wish I had
done was to get in touch with the
lactation consultants in my
hospital to find out what pumping facilities were available while I was still pregnant, rather than waiting until the first day back from maternity leave and scrambling to figure this out while overwhelmed about being back
at work.
She currently practices as a
lactation consultant at Tri-City Medical Center, teaches pre-natal breastfeeding and parenting classes at several Scripps Hospitals and Tri-City Medical Center, does private practice lactation consults through her private lactation practice «The Original Comfort Food Lactation Services», and until recently worked at Queen of the Valley Hospital and Scripps Mercy Hospital doing inpatient, bedside lactation
lactation consultant at Tri-City Medical Center, teaches pre-natal breastfeeding and parenting classes
at several Scripps
Hospitals and Tri-City Medical Center,
does private practice
lactation consults through her private lactation practice «The Original Comfort Food Lactation Services», and until recently worked at Queen of the Valley Hospital and Scripps Mercy Hospital doing inpatient, bedside lactation
lactation consults through her private
lactation practice «The Original Comfort Food Lactation Services», and until recently worked at Queen of the Valley Hospital and Scripps Mercy Hospital doing inpatient, bedside lactation
lactation practice «The Original Comfort Food
Lactation Services», and until recently worked at Queen of the Valley Hospital and Scripps Mercy Hospital doing inpatient, bedside lactation
Lactation Services», and until recently worked
at Queen of the Valley
Hospital and Scripps Mercy
Hospital doing inpatient, bedside
lactation lactation consults.
If you plan on breastfeeding (which I recommend every mom
at least tries their best because it is so good for your baby) then I highly recommend you
do lots of research and get as much help from the
lactation consultants at your
hospital as you can.
But a
lactation consultant at the
hospital really helped and encouraged me (mostly, she told me that it * truly * would get better in a relatively short amount of time, and it
did).
Did you know that one
lactation consultant at a Boston - area
hospital told me (in person, to me and about 100 others in a room
at a conference) that she would be fired if she ever uttered the words «tongue tie»
at her
hospital again.
I received minimal attention from the
lactation consultants at the
hospital, because I
did not know to ask for more time with them.
The
lactation consultant I met with
at the
hospital told me to «accept no pain» and, if I
did feel discomfort, to re-position the baby / ies to ensure a proper latch.
So didn't need the NICU, but we
did need a little bit of
lactation help and my body is pretty awesome when it comes to making milk, so I never had a problem with that with my twins, but it least up to their due - date so from about thirty - five weeks when they were born up to about forty / forty - one weeks I saw a
lactation consultant again trough the
hospital that I delivered
at, and it was outpatient and I went in about once a week and we would sit there and she would help me latch the babies, we would get out a huge double breastfeeding pillow and she taught me how to roll up the wash - clause and stuff to get my breast in the right position and squish them and push them up and I am like «Hey, I like how they look now!»
«The
Lactation Consultant at the
hospital gave me a nipple shield to try, and that's what
did the trick for us.
There are lots of helpful nurses and
lactation consultants at the
hospital, and some even
do house visits.»
At our
hospital, this included optional antenatal classes, which
did address infant feeding, and postnatal visits by a
lactation consultant should any problems with breast feeding arise.