Lactation Consultations

Coastal Midwifery and Lactation offers breastfeeding and feeding support at the private clinic in Cowes, Phillip Island; or in-home support within Bass Coast area.

Lactation Consultants, like Amy, can offer support with complex breastfeeding and feeding concerns.

Amy can provide you with personalised and consistent support, especially if you are feeling overwhelmed with varying or conflicting information.

Many families will seek out support in pregnancy to learn more about breastfeeding, and to discuss a plan to enhance their breastfeeding experience and minimise any feeding issues.

Reasons to seek support NOW from a Lactation Consultant:

Sore or damaged nipples
Pain
Education - feeling overwhelmed with varied information
Continuity of health care provider
Recurrent mastitis
Baby's weight concerns
Multiple baby's feeding - tandem, twins or more!
Transitioning from bottle to breastfeeding
Expressing and wanting to breastfeed
Using artificial formula and wanting to breastfeed
Using a nipple shield
Concerned about a tongue tie (oral restriction)
Any other breastfeeding or feeding concerns

Amy will refer and engage other health professionals to support your feeding to ensure a positive experience and best outcome for you and your baby; this may include referral to a speech therapist, physiotherapist, paediatrician and general practitioner.

Initial Consultation

Offered as in-home or in clinic.

Amy will review your personal history, experience to date, and your goals for where you want to be with breastfeeding or feeding your baby.

Amy will conduct an assessment of yourself and your baby, and make a plan that works for you and your family.

Consults are baby-led, gentle and non-judgmental.

Amy aims for the most positive experience breastfeeding your baby.

Written plan included, and follow up phone call at 1 week.

120 min consult

$250.00 In-Home*

$180.00 Clinic

*travel fee may apply

Discounts available:

'Bundle of 3' sessions and 'refer a friend'

= 10% off

Follow Up Consultation

Amy will review the initial plan with you, and check in on your goals.

Amy will conduct an reassessment of yourself and your baby, and alter or enhance a plan to progress forward.

Consults are baby-led, gentle and non-judgmental.

Written plan included, and follow up phone call at 1 week.

45 min consult

$100.00 In-Home*

$80.00 Clinic

*travel fee may apply

Discounts available:

'Bundle of 3' sessions and 'refer a friend'

= 10% off

Pregnancy Consultation

Offered as in-home or in clinic, at approximately 34 weeks of pregnancy.

Amy will review your personal history, experiences, and your goals for when baby is born.

Amy will give you enhanced information, identify and discuss any factors that may impact on breastfeeding, and make a pathway plan that works for you and your family.

Written plan included, and follow up phone call once baby arrives.

90 min consult

$200.00 In-Home*

$140.00 Clinic

*travel fee may apply

Discounts available:

'Bundle of 3' sessions and 'refer a friend'

= 10% off

Health Care Card Holders - please contact for quote

CMAL believes in access for all - if you require a payment plan - please advise

AcuneedlingTM
Acupuncture for Midwives

Amy can perform acupuncture, acupressure, and moxibustion on specific points related to pregnancy and postnatal conditions.

You may benefit from AcuneedlingTM if you are experiencing:

Hyperemesis
Insomnia
Anaemia
Headaches and migraines
Back/sciatica/hip/pubic pain
Emotional concerns and antenatal depression
Haemorrhoids, varicose veins, vulval varicosities
Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR)
Thrush/itching
Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension (High blood pressure)
Gestational diabetes in pregnancy
Restless legs
Breech position
Back or pelvic pain
Pre-birth activation
Optimal baby positioning
Birth activation
'Slow labour' / long latent phase
Posterior positioned baby
Non-medicated pain relief
After birth pains
Breastmilk let down
Mastitis
'Mother warming'
Scar binding - caesarean section

AcuneedlingTM Session

60 min consult

$75.00 In-Home*

$60.00 Clinic

*travel fee may apply

Discounts available:

'Bundle of 3' sessions and 'refer a friend'

= 10% off

What to expect from a AcuneedlingTM session with Amy?

Each session is 60 mins, this allows enough time for you to discuss your concerns with Amy, or update how you are feeling from last session.

Sessions are available in your own home, or at the Cowes clinic, on the picturesque Phillip Island.

The session is quiet or with low music, dim lighting and you should feel very comfortable throughout. Amy may offer you a lying down, or reclining position, and will move around you wherever you feel most comfortable.

If you have not had acupuncture previously, let Amy know! The needles used are thin, short, and inserted into specific points on the skin surface. It should be comfortable on insertion and removal.

Your experience is most important, and ensures session is most effective.

Gentle Settling and Sleep Support

Finding sleep 'advice' not working?

Does settling your baby feel exhausting?

Does leaving your baby to 'self-soothe' not feel right for your family?

Coastal Midwifery and Lactation offers support that is not your average sleep program!

Amy has a unique approach to early parenting support, gentle sleep and settling advice based on the latest evidence, as per The Neuroprotective Development Institute (formerly Possums).

Amy's approach is based on normalising infant behaviour, increasing connection with your baby, reviewing and supporting your own goals and finding a plan of support, that aligns with your values and beliefs as a family.

The NDC approach is based on sensory nourishment, working with your baby's natural state of sleep, specific sleep needs, and enhancing the rhythms and activity of your family.

This approach is individual to your baby, and considers family movements, baby's temperament, feeding.

Amy is trained and accredited with The NDC Institute, you can find more information here.