Our Nutrition & Lactation Care

Nursing Singletons or Multiples

Comprehensive breastfeeding support for you and your precious little one(s) — from latch and positioning to discomfort/nipple pain, milk supply, and infant weight and growth concerns. This service provides dyad-centred, evidence-based guidance tailored to your unique needs, while thoughtfully considering maternal and infant health & birth history, medical & nutritional conditions, feeding goals, and psycho-social factors through a compassionate, holistic lens.

Special expertise includes supporting lactating parents with metabolic and endocrine/hormonal conditions such as type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes, PCOS, and thyroid disorders; anemia and digestive/nutrient malabsorption conditions such as Crohn’s disease and celiac disease; a history of breast surgery/procedures or bariatric surgery; and vegetarian or vegan dietary patterns.

Pumping

Personalized flange sizing and fitting paired with a smart, doable pumping plan to support your comfort, milk output, and your baby’s growth. This service is especially valuable for families navigating NICU stays, surgeries, or other periods of separation, helping protect milk supply, ensuring breast health while allowing your baby to receive the benefits of expressed breast milk, which is considered the next best option after direct breastfeeding.

Plugged Ducts and Mastitis Prevention & Management

Proactive and supportive care to help prevent and manage plugged ducts and mastitis, so Mother can stay comfortable and keep feeding with confidence & comfort. We focus on achieving balanced milk supply, identifying early signs and triggers, effective relief strategies, breastfeeding and pumping optimization and individualized management plan to support healing, prevent reoccurrence while protecting your milk supply.

Conservative Management of Tongue Tie

Helping you navigate breastfeeding challenges related to oral restrictions with more ease, comfort, and clarity. This support includes latch and positioning adjustments, feeding comfort strategies, milk transfer assessment, and ensuring your baby is well fed — all while supporting a more positive and comfortable feeding experience for both of you.

Feeding Support for Infants with Oral Anomalies

Supporting you and your baby through feeding challenges related to oral anomalies such as cleft lip and/or palate and Pierre Robin Syndrome. We fully explore the potential for direct breastfeeding using individualized latch and positioning techniques. When direct breastfeeding is limited or not possible, we help you develop sustainable pumping plans and recommend specialized feeding tools, elevating feeding experiences and bonding with your baby, as well as instilling a sense of confidence and purpose while ensuring healthy growth throughout the pre- and post-surgical journey. We also offer support for transitioning your baby back to the breast following surgical repairs.

Feeding Support for Infants with Low Muscle Tone (Hypotonia)

Individualized breastfeeding and feeding support for babies with low muscle tone, which can be caused by various conditions such as Down syndrome, endocrine/metabolic/nutritional disorders and birth injuries/trauma. We focus on addressing challenges such as decreased muscle tone, latch difficulties, feeding fatigue, and oral coordination. Our goal is to make feeding safer, more effective, and more enjoyable for both baby and parents. We also help protect milk supply, support healthy growth and development, and give you the confidence and skills you need to nourish and bond with your baby.

Weaning & Introduction of Solids

Helping you and your baby move through the weaning journey with ease, confidence, and connection. This service supports a gradual, baby- or mother- led approach that prioritizes breast comfort, emotional bonding, and a smooth transition to solids — ensuring your little one is well-nourished throughout their first year of life.

Maternal Elimination & Reintroduction Dietary Guidance

Rarely do babies react to foods eaten by their mothers, so changes to a mother’s diet are not usually the first-line intervention. However, sometimes symptoms persist despite trying other non-diet approaches. In these situations, we do a little detective work together to help identify potential food culprits contributing to your baby’s GI symptoms, colic, fussiness, or skin conditions through an evidence-based, step-by-step nutrition plan.

This service supports thoughtful dietary modifications to help ease baby’s symptoms while ensuring Mother remains well-nourished and supported throughout their breastfeeding journey.

Nutrition Support for Postpartum Recovery & Healing

Growing and birthing a baby is hard work—and recovery deserves just as much attention as pregnancy. We help mothers rebuild nutrient stores, support healing, restore energy, and feel nourished during the postpartum period. Whether you’re adjusting to life with a newborn, recovering from a vaginal or Cesarean birth, breastfeeding, pumping, formula feeding, or a combination of all three, you’ll receive personalized nutrition support that meets you where you are in your recovery and healing journey after giving birth.

Our work together begins with a comprehensive nutrition assessment that takes into account your medical and birth history, nutritional status and breastfeeding journey. From there, we’ll develop practical, sustainable, and evidence-based nutrition strategies that fit the realities of motherhood. We provide guidance on nutrient-rich foods to support healing and replenish nutrient stores, and we can explore supplementation needs when appropriate while honouring your postpartum traditions and cultural practices. We can also address breastfeeding nutrition, postpartum weight and body image concerns, as well as nutritional considerations for optimal postpartum mental health and future pregnancies.

Our goal is to help mothers eat well alongside their babies—because when mamas are well nourished, they are better equipped to thrive, not just survive, during the postpartum journey and to care for their babies with confidence and energy.

Milk Suppression & Breast Comfort Care During Griefing & Healing

The body naturally begins preparing for feeding during pregnancy, and milk production actually begins around Week 16-20, so a pregnancy loss after this time can still result in the body making milk.
We provide gentle, compassionate support to help you safely suppress milk production using non-pharmacological strategies while maintaining breast health and offering a safe space for emotional support.
If desired, we can also explore meaningful ways to honour the milk and this experience. Should medication be considered, we will work collaboratively with your doctor to support your journey.
*Offered at significantly reduced rates*

“Nursing gives you superhuman powers.”

— Gwen Stefani

“Dear Baby,
Sorry for all the times I dropped crumbs on you while nursing.
Mama needs to eat too.”

— Unknown