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Context

posterior tongue-tie, low supply

six weeks postpartum

Latch · Lactation Consulting

She changed
everything
in one visit.

— Maya Okafor

Baby Amara, 6 weeks old

posterior tongue-tie · low supply · six weeks postpartum
★★★★★

Three lactation consultants before her. Two failed weight checks. One forty-minute session, and Amara latched for the first time without pain.

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Case Study Onesimple latch correction
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Rachel Lindqvist

Baby Finn, 10 days old

shallow latch · nipple trauma · first-time mother
★★★★★

The Crisis

Every feed was ten minutes of bracing before Finn latched. Rachel's nipples were cracked, bleeding by day four. Her midwife said "it gets easier." By day eight it hadn't. She called Latch at midnight.

I had given myself until the end of the week to quit.

The Session

A 90-minute home visit. She watched three feeds without interrupting. She spotted the shallow flange angle immediately — Finn was taking in only the nipple, not the areola. One adjustment to Rachel's hold, a rolled towel under her elbow, and on the next attempt: silence.

The Outcome

0

pain at<br/>next feed

14

months<br/>breastfed

1

session<br/>needed

"She didn't tell me what I was doing wrong. She showed me what I could do differently. There's a kindness in that distinction."

— Rachel Lindqvist

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Case Study TwoNICU transition · premature infant

Priya Nambiar

Baby Kiran, 32 weeks gestational age

NICU · 28-day admission · exclusively pumping
★★★★★

The Crisis

Kiran spent 28 days in the NICU. Priya pumped every two hours — hospital grade, maximal settings — and still watched her output drop from 45ml per session at day five to 18ml by week three. The NICU nurses were stretched too thin to troubleshoot. She was discharged with a preemie who had never practiced at the breast.

I was mourning breastfeeding before I'd even tried it.

The Session

Two sessions, three days apart. First: a full pump audit — flange sizing, suction cycle, session frequency. The flanges were two sizes too large; Priya had been told "bigger is better." Supply rebounded within 48 hours. Second session: skin-to-skin latch practice with Kiran using a nipple shield as a bridge. He nursed for four minutes on the first attempt.

The Outcome

+27

ml gained<br/>per session

6

weeks to<br/>full breast

11

months<br/>breastfed

"She knew exactly what the NICU had and hadn't done. She spoke the same language as his nurses and translated it into something I could actually do at home at midnight."

— Priya Nambiar

Mother holding premature infant skin-to-skin in hospital, tender and intimate, black and white

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Case Study Threetwins · supply crash · second-time mother
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Danielle Osei-Bonsu

Twins Ezra & Noa, 4 weeks old

twins · sudden supply crash at week 3 · second-time mother
★★★★★

The Crisis

Danielle had nursed her first child for two years. She assumed she knew how to do this. At week three with the twins, her supply halved in four days. No illness, no new medication, no missed feeds. Just gone. Her OB suggested formula. She called Latch instead.

I'd done this before. That made it feel even more like failure.

The Session

A two-hour session plus a follow-up call at 48 hours. The culprit: Danielle was tandem nursing in a position that compressed her ducts on the right side — a positioning problem invisible unless someone watches a full tandem feed from start to finish. A football hold modification for Noa, a specific nursing pillow configuration, and a 72-hour power-pumping protocol to rebuild what was lost.

The Outcome

72h

to full<br/>recovery

2x

babies<br/>exclusively fed

9

months<br/>tandem nursed

"She didn't treat me like a second-time mother who should have known better. She treated the problem like the problem it was — mechanical, solvable, and not my fault."

— Danielle Osei-Bonsu

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About

Someone who has seen
this exact problem
two hundred times before.

I'm a registered nurse and IBCLC with twelve years in maternal-newborn care, six of them in the NICU. I've sat with mothers at 3 a.m. who were ready to give up. I've watched problems that looked impossible resolve in a single session. I do home visits because breastfeeding happens at home, and clinic lighting doesn't show me what I need to see.

I don't have a philosophy about breastfeeding. I have a practice. The goal is always the same: a fed baby and a mother who feels like herself again.

IBCLC Certified

International Board Certified Lactation Consultant

RN, BSN

Registered Nurse, 12 years maternal-newborn

1,400+ Families

Served across the greater metro area

NICU Specialist

Former NICU lactation team, 6 years

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