Breastfeeding or bottlefeeding assessment

  • Clinic visit – $240
  • Home visits – extra $0/$30/$50 (depending on distance travelled – see contact me page for service area)
  • Includes one week of follow up via phone or email

What to expect:

Your visit may take up to two hours and, ideally, a full feeding will be observed. It can be helpful to adjust feeding times – ensuring bub hasn’t fed for at least 1.5hrs prior to the appt. This can help your baby to be willing to feed during the visit, without being over hungry.  It is beneficial to prepare a list of questions to discuss during the consult. During the consult, Jenny may:

  • Take a full history of your feeding journey, including details of the birth and any previous breastfeeding experience
  • Check your baby’s appearance and body language
  • Check your breasts and nipples
  • Watch your baby feed and offer help with positioning, if breastfeeding
  • Show you how to tell when your baby is latched and feeding well
  • Check your baby’s weight
  • Weigh your baby before and after breastfeeding to measure milk intake
  • Provide a full oral assessment – this involves putting a finger in your baby’s mouth to check your baby’s suck and assess for tongue and lip ties (an IBCLC cannot diagnose tongue ties but may make comment about any restriction of the tongue and lip and its possible impact on breastfeeding)
  • Provide a baby cranio session
  • Provide cranio treatment for mum (if this arises as a priority for treatment)
  • Rebates may be available through your health fund. Jenny has a registered provider number for BUPA, Medibank & HCF. Other health funds also rebate for LC services eg. NIB, HIF, CBHS, Teachers Health Fund.