Breastfeeding Consultation (initial 2 hour appointment, then as required)
- Are you determined to breastfeed but finding the whole business a nightmare (e.g. sore nipples, baby isn't putting on weight etc.)? Are you sick of being given conflicting advice?
- Initial emergency visit (observing a feed; helping to attach a baby; how to express) followed by daily visits until problems are resolved
Baby Routine & Sleeping (2 hour appointment)
- Help getting baby into a flexible baby-led routine.
- From 2 weeks old, help parents to know when baby needs feeding, when to 'play' and when to sleep.
- Timing of feeds and how to encourage baby to sleep at night.
- Advice on how to start expressing daily, so that partner can give one night feed.
- Allowing Mum a break.
- Allowing Dad to bond with baby.
- Allowing baby to take breast and bottle (of expressed milk).
- Sleep training - different methods to help baby sleep at night, e.g. withdrawal technique/controlled crying etc.
Postnatal Depression/Birth Stories (2 hour appointment)
- Did you have a traumatic birth experience? Would it help to talk it with an outsider (of course confidentially)?
- Do you think you might have post-natal depression (one in three women suffers some form of 'blue' period); initial assessment/discussion to help recognise signs and symptoms; coping strategies and other avenues of help explored.