Private Antenatal breastfeeding consult
Duration : 1-2 hours.
Costs, payable at time of appointment :
– Face to face $300 per hour
– Online $250 per hour
These consultations are provided in the comfort your home or online by our Lactation Consultants (IBCLC’s).
All too often we hear mums lament that they wish they’d done some breastfeeding education prior to their babies birth. This session is for you.
In your personalised ante-natal consultation, we will identify your goals for feeding and will provide varied and individualised education based on these identified needs. Encouraging questions and allaying concerns allow us to build confidence together before the birth of your new arrival. During your consultation we will need to discuss your ante-natal medical and emotional history to identify any areas of note and provide education accordingly.
We can discuss:
- The importance of the first breastfeed and why this first feed is so important to maintain lactation;
- Early signs the baby is not attached well and how to rectify;
- How to facilitate the first feed by practicing correct positioning and attachment using educational aids;
- Whether antenatal expressing is appropriate and how to perform expressing and safely collect and store breast milk before the baby’s birth;
- Changing breasts;
- What to expect and how to become familiar with your changing breasts;
- The function of your breasts;
- The anatomy that allows for lactation;
- How to effectively maximise and maintain lactation;
- What to expect in those first few weeks, normal feeding patterns and behaviours of the neonate;
- How often your baby may feed in the early postnatal period and what constitutes a successful breastfeed;
- Normal output and how to know my baby is effectively transferring milk from the breast;
- Support services and facilities available to you and the family as a new parent;
- Any other particular concerns or individual needs you may have
Fourth Trimester – Transition to parenthood
Duration : 4 hours face-to-face course, group sessions
Cost : $650 per family.
Understanding newborns, initiation of breastfeeding, day-to-day care of a baby, SIDS and safe sleeping, setting techniques and normal newborn behaviour and sleep in the early weeks, relationship changes and parental adjustment.
Private sessions available on request.
Postnatal feeding consult
Costs, payable at time of appointment :
– Face to face $300 per hour
– Online $250 per hour
Gain confidence knowing that your Midwife/Lactation Consultant is on hand to support you during those early days and weeks while you transition into motherhood. You can choose how and when your care takes place.
By receiving early care and advice that is consistent, and non-conflicting, you are best placed to prevent difficulties from arising in the postnatal period. Your Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) from Milk & Mums Co is available for on-line video consult, or if preferred, in the comfort of your own home.
Includes one week’s text support. If further support required, please review other support options available through our shop.
Book your postnatal care visits with your Milk & Mums Co during your pregnancy or contact Milk & Mums Co as soon as your baby arrives.
Please check with your private health fund to see if your policy covers you for Antenatal and/or Postnatal Lactation Consultancy.
Your consult:
- Identify your goals for feeding and parenting;
- Extensive medical history also previous feeding experience;
- Infant feeding support – assessing your baby, your breast and a breastfeed. Suggesting modifications where appropriate.
- Education as to what constitutes a successful breastfeed;
- Parental support whilst transitioning to parenthood;
- Assistance to manage and devise a management strategy for;
- Cracked and damaged nipples
- Tongue and lip ties
- Poor attachment at the breast
- Breast refusal
- Mastitis
- Nipple thrush
- Nipple vasospasm
- Management of insulin resistance/diabetes
- Low supply/oversupply
- Nipple shield- weaning off the shield and shield care.
- Expressing and bottle feeding
- Transition to formula
- Introduction of solids
- Management of feeding returning to work
- Management of previous breast surgery (reduction, augmentation)
- Multiple births
- Settling a baby to sleep, normal baby sleep patterns and sleep and settling education.
- Routine post natal mother and baby checks
- Identify your goals for feeding and parenting;
- Extensive medical history also previous feeding experience;
- Infant feeding support – assessing your baby, your breast and a breastfeed. Suggesting modifications where appropriate.
- Education as to what constitutes a successful breastfeed;
- Parental support whilst transitioning to parenthood;
- Assistance to manage and devise a management strategy for;
- Cracked and damaged nipples
- Tongue and lip ties
- Poor attachment at the breast
- Breast refusal
- Mastitis
- Nipple thrush
- Nipple vasospasm
- Management of insulin resistance/diabetes
- Low supply/oversupply
- Nipple shield- weaning off the shield and shield care.
- Expressing and bottle feeding
- Transition to formula
- Introduction of solids
- Management of feeding returning to work
- Management of previous breast surgery (reduction, augmentation)
- Multiple births
- Settling a baby to sleep, normal baby sleep patterns and sleep and settling education.
- Routine post natal mother and baby checks
Sleep consult packages
Our sleep consultants can either do online or face to face consults to identify your baby’s sleep needs and curate specific programs to meet your needs. We can identify specific needs and then tailor a plan to suit those needs.
All consults include one sleep plan and one weeks text support.
5 hours day support – $800
1 night – $1,300
2 nights – $2,500
3 nights – $4,000
Phone consult – $120 per 30 minutes, for existing clients only
Your consult:
- Understanding your sleep goals and how your baby sleeps
- Advice on how to encourage your baby to sleep longer at night and facilitate day naps
- Advice and demonstrations on settling techniques to suit your baby and your parenting style
- SIDS recommendations and assessment of your baby’s current sleep environment and recommendations on any changes needed to promote better sleeping
- Sleep education to suit your baby’s personality and support your parenting approach
- Advice on how to link sleep cycles
- How to maintain a routine that provides structure and consistency
- How to help your baby sleep in the pram or car
- Developmental milestones and how they can affect your baby’s sleep
- Answering any questions or concerns you have around the new sleep recommendations
- Provide additional advice such as; daylight savings, travelling with your baby, future regressions and how to keep to the program when your baby is unwell
- Understanding your sleep goals and how your baby sleeps
- Advice on how to encourage your baby to sleep longer at night and facilitate day naps
- Advice and demonstrations on settling techniques to suit your baby and your parenting style
- SIDS recommendations and assessment of your baby’s current sleep environment and recommendations on any changes needed to promote better sleeping
- Sleep education to suit your baby’s personality and support your parenting approach
- Advice on how to link sleep cycles
- How to maintain a routine that provides structure and consistency
- How to help your baby sleep in the pram or car
- Developmental milestones and how they can affect your baby’s sleep
- Answering any questions or concerns you have around the new sleep recommendations
- Provide additional advice such as; daylight savings, travelling with your baby, future regressions and how to keep to the program when your baby is unwell
Text one off quick question
Cost : $25 per question
For any of the Milk & Mums Co families who just have a quick question. This one is for you. Ask your question/concern and have it answered within 24 hours.
Text weekly support
Cost : $200 per week
Follow on support available after your consult if you feel you need/want additional support and guidance from one trusted source qualified source.
All texts will aim to be answered within 24 hours and within business hours of 9 a.m.- 5.00 p.m.
Follow-up phone consults
Cost : $120 per 30minutes
Available for families who have had initial consults and are requiring further support 7 days following their appointment but not needing a face to face assessment. Most suited to those who are looking for additional management with their newborn or growing baby.
Additional Postnatal support
Duration: Minimum 4 hours
Cost: $70 per hour for day support, $90 per hour for overnight support
Our popular service is a way you can get some additional support transitioning to parenthood and, most importantly, catch up sleep during the day or night. We come to your home and can assist with anything you need with your little one.
Our experienced, qualified and gentle midwives help with settling your baby.
In addition, our staff can provide education and assist with correct attachment, latching and feeding positions if breastfeeding. Often mums struggle with engorgement and our staff can tailor their advice and how best to manage this in the interim to facilitate your feeding journey.
As well as assisting with bottle feeding, pumping, expressing we can provide correct guidance as to the safe storage of expressed breastmilk and/or formula bottles if that is your preferred method of feeding your new baby.
We can advise on damaged nipples, pain with feeding, night feeds, sleep safety, SIDS recommendations, sleep hygiene and rooming-in set-up. We can also assist with any light maternity duties from washing, folding, sterilising etc. In our endeavour to enable your family to thrive not just to survive.
Our staff can come to your home for casual day/night shifts, regular shifts or full-time placements for extended periods, making it an ideal service during a new baby’s first few months.
Booking
Our staff can be booked to start from as early as 7am or as late as 7pm and will be briefed prior to their attendance at your home.
Bookings can be made for a single day/night service or for multiple days/nights in advance.
Cost
A one off non-refundable fee of $100 is required before the commencement of employment.
The cost is based on a per hour rate for a minimum 4-hour booking at $70 per hour for day support and $90 per hour for overnight support payable in advance to Milk & Mums Co.
Please rest assured that our priority is the health and safety of your baby/babies. We follow safe sleeping practices in line with SIDS, American Academy of Paediatrics and World Health Organisation recommendations.
Your Team
Kgomotso
Meet kind-hearted Kgomotso. She has worked as both a Registered Nurse and midwife in South Africa for 17 years before she relocated to Sydney.
Kgomotso has been working in an extremely busy postnatal ward at a Sydney private hospital for the last 12 years and her passion is to make a family’s journey as calm as possible.
Kgomotso aims to provide individualised, family focused care. She endeavours to find out what’s important to families to support them in becoming the best versions of themselves in the ever-changing, evolving role of being a parent.
Frankie
Meet fantastic Frankie. She has a wealth of experience as a midwife in both Australia and the UK. She gained her degree in London where she practised in both the National Health Service and the private sector for ten years. She ran several education sessions in both the antenatal and postnatal space.
In 2013 Frankie moved to sunny Sydney, looking for a more holistic approach to midwifery and care for women and their families.
Frankie has a particular interest in maternal mental health and has this at the forefront of her daily practice. She currently works in the birthing suite at a Sydney private hospital. She is known for her bubbly personality, knowledgeable, kind and compassionate approach. She is a fantastic communicator who is very respectful of the need/wants of each family.
Cliona
Meet the gorgeous Cliona. She is an Irish trained Registered Midwife and she is up to date with current practises, research and recommendations as she presently works across multiple hospitals around Sydney.
It’s apparent that Cliona loves her dream job as a midwife and she values providing continuity of care to women and babies from the beginning of pregnancy through to the postnatal period. She loves using her skills and knowledge to help support mothers and families in the community during the transition from hospital to home!
Edel
Meet the wonderful Edel. A registered Midwife, currently working in a private hospital in Sydney and has over ten years’ experience working as a nanny and night nanny.
Edel specialises in Birth suite, Postnatal and Special care nursery and she has recently completed a Sleep Consultancy course with the Institute of Sensitive Sleep Consultants Australia.
Edel has a keen interest in helping families achieve a positive relationship with their babies and aims to adapt her practice to suit the specific needs of each family.
Please get in touch if you feel her skills could be of benefit to you and your family.
Denise
Meet delightful Denise. She grew up in beautiful Sligo, a small rural village in the north-west of Ireland.
After completing her secondary education, she attended the National University of Ireland-Galway for four years and graduated as a midwife. She has worked in the delivery suite in both Galway and Sligo University Hospital and in addition has completed the High Dependency Maternity Care Course.
Denise absolutely loves her job and feels privileged to watch families fall in love with their newborns.
In her spare time, Denise plays Gaelic football with her new club here Penrith Gaels and she loves running, swimming, reading, meditating and socialising with friends.
Sally
Meet sensational Sally. She is a qualified Midwife from the UK and has got over 10 years’ experience with caring for newborns.
Recently her experience has meant that Sally has been recruited for many roles to provide night support to families and gentle sleep assistance. She has a special interest in ensuring parents receive education that enables them to make informed and educated decisions on how they’d like to parent.
Sally likes to go the gym and keep active in her spare time.
Linda
Meet legendary Linda. Linda qualified as a registered midwife in 2018. She has over four years’ experience caring for parents and babies on postnatal wards both in Ireland and in Australia. She is kind, compassionate and knowledgeable with a special interest in supporting breastfeeding.
Meagan
A conscientious, hard working individual complimented for my organisational skills, reliability and ability to build rapport with colleagues and families alike. I possess the key skills required to
work within a fast paced environment and the keen attention to detail to ensure all tasks are completed to the highest standard. I work well independently and thrive in a team environment.
Well regarded as a coffee snob amongst my friends! When I’m not working as a midwife or a nanny you will find me at my local Cafe wirh a flat white or exploring new ones close by!
Sally
Meet sensational Sally. She is a qualified Midwife from the UK and has got over 10 years’ experience with caring for newborns.
Recently her experience has meant that Sally has been recruited for many roles to provide night support to families and gentle sleep assistance. She has a special interest in ensuring parents receive education that enables them to make informed and educated decisions on how they’d like to parent.
Sally likes to go the gym and keep active in her spare time.
