CONSULTATION AND INSURANCE
Journey
Lactation Consultations
Every family’s breastfeeding journey is unique. Whether you’re preparing during pregnancy, navigating early feeding challenges, or moving into toddlerhood, I provide individualized support to help you meet your feeding goals with confidence.
Preparing for Breastfeeding While Pregnant
Preparing for Breastfeeding While Pregnant
- Wondering if your body is ready to make enough milk?
- Nervous about how breastfeeding will actually work once your baby arrives?
- Wanting to avoid the struggles you experienced with your first baby?
During this consult, we prepare you with personalized education and an evaluation of any factors that could impact feeding. Together, we create a plan that helps you feel confident and ready before your baby arrives.
Increasing Milk Supply
Increasing Milk Supply
- Worried your baby isn’t getting enough milk?
- Finding yourself supplementing when you’d rather not?
- Unsure if your pumping routine is helping or hurting supply?
This session focuses on identifying the root cause of low supply and developing a step-by-step plan to increase your milk production with evidence-based strategies.
Tethered Oral Ties Evaluations
Pain-Free Latching
Pain-Free Latching
- Experiencing cracked, sore, or bleeding nipples?
- Feeling dread or anxiety before every feeding because it hurts so much?
- Concerned your baby isn’t transferring milk well at the breast?
We work together to achieve a comfortable latch so feeding can become a bonding experience rather than a painful one.
Tethered Oral Ties Evaluations
- Baby struggling to stay latched or slipping off frequently?
- Hearing clicking sounds during feeding or noticing excessive gas/reflux?
- Wondering if a tongue tie or lip tie might be the issue?
I provide a thorough oral function evaluation and guidance on next steps, including referrals if release is recommended. My goal is to help you understand your baby’s anatomy and feeding patterns so you can make informed choices.
Pumping Consultation
Decreasing Supply with Oversupply
Decreasing Supply with Oversupply
- Constantly leaking, soaking through shirts or pads?
- Baby choking, coughing, or pulling off because the milk comes too fast?
- Feeling engorged or prone to plugged ducts and mastitis?
This consult helps you bring supply into balance, making feeding more comfortable for both you and your baby while reducing your risk of complications.
Pumping Consultation
- Struggling to find the right flange size or pump settings?
- Not getting as much milk as you expect from your pump?
- Unsure how to build and manage a freezer stash?
I guide you through optimizing your pumping setup and routine so you can express milk effectively and comfortably.
Introducing Solids
Back to Work Consultations
Back to Work Consultations
- Nervous about how you’ll keep up supply once you return to work?
- Overwhelmed by storage, pumping schedules, and childcare routines?
- Wanting to advocate for your needs at the workplace?
We develop a customized plan for your pumping schedule, milk storage, and communication with your employer or caregiver, so you can transition back to work without sacrificing your breastfeeding goals.
Introducing Solids
- Unsure if your baby is ready for solid foods?
- Confused by conflicting advice about purées versus baby-led weaning?
- Wondering how to balance solids with continued breastfeeding?
I help you understand readiness signs, feeding approaches, and nutritional needs so that introducing solids feels safe, fun, and supportive of your baby’s growth.
Weaning Consultations
Breastfeeding Beyond 1
Breastfeeding Beyond 1
- Hearing conflicting messages about whether it’s “normal” to keep nursing?
- Facing questions or pressure from family, friends, or your pediatrician?
- Wondering how breastfeeding fits into toddler nutrition and independence?
This consult provides reassurance, strategies, and evidence-based information to support you in continuing breastfeeding into the toddler years—whether you want to keep going, set limits, or make a plan for gentle weaning.
Weaning Consultations
- Unsure how to begin the weaning process gently for both you and your child?
- Concerned about plugged ducts, mastitis, or emotional challenges during weaning?
- Wanting to preserve your bond with your child while moving toward the next stage?
I provide guidance on safe, gradual, and emotionally supportive weaning strategies tailored to your timeline and family’s needs.
Insurance
Lo accepts most major insurance companies to provide consultations at no cost to you.
She is also contracted with The Lactation Network. To see if you can see Lo through The Lactation Network go here.
I also accept FSA and HSA payment.
The Locations I Serve
serving Athol, Orange, Templeton, Gardner, Barre, Oakham, Royalston, Warwick, Petersham, Phillipston, Winchendon, Westminster, Fitchburg, Leominster, Ashby, Ashburnham, Hubbardston, Ayer, Devens, New Salem, Shutesbury, Erving, Leverett, Pelham, Belchertown, Gill, Greenfield (in no particular order) Also serving wider Western, Ma and Southern NH.
También hablo español y estaría encantado de ayudarle a usted o a los miembros de su familia.