I also hold a weekly drop-in lactation clinic and postpartum support group.
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All of my services are free of charge to the moms, as they are provided through our clinics’ primary care services. When there are challenges with breastfeeding, I am able to offer unlimited lactation consultations. In my role providing perinatal services, I work both within the community clinics offering prenatal education, and in the mom’s home doing the initial exams for the newborns and breastfeeding assessments for moms after every birth as the standard of care, whether things are going well with breastfeeding or not. I will provide a summary here of the work I do and what I have found with my clients involving this practice.
I have encountered assumptions that placenta consumption increases milk production, is a prevention for postpartum depression, and has existed in history as an ancient human practice. I would like to share my experience, concerns and request for collaboration to closely examine the new practice of placenta encapsulation, as it has grown to become a component of the postpartum experience for the new moms who I work with and throughout the United States. As a nurse and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), I have the opportunity to work with nearly every pregnant woman and new mom and baby at a group of four primary care health centers in Northern California.
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