Lactation Visit

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What is the scope of an integrative lactation + feeding specialist? ● The Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist takes a whole person, whole family approach to assisting new parents with learning to feed their newborns. With current recommendations in mind about exclusive nursing, the ILFS recognizes that the health and adjustment of the person doing the feeding is not included in the current recommendations. ● Therefore, Integrative lactation and Feeding Specialists work with each family as its own specific, individual case. They help the family to discover and overcome their unique challenges to have the healthiest possible, most satisfying feeding relationship between parent(s) and baby(s). ● Most lactation training identifies “normal” and then identifies “variations.” The ILFS recognizes what is normal to a medical organization may, in fact, be a variation to any family. Each family is the expert on their own set of “normal”. ● It is the goal of the ILFS to assist families in becoming experts in how their own new or growing families work.

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