IBCLC - LACTATION Consultant
EDUCATION AND SUPPORT

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Lactation Consultations - Northern Beaches and North Shore Sydney.

Antenatal Education - North Curl Curl

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IBCLC - Lactation Consultant and Prenatal Breastfeeding Education

Hello! I’m Peta and it is my absolute pleasure to support you on your parenting and lactation journey. I am a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and I love helping women find their way on their breastfeeding / infant feeding journey, both through antenatal education and postnatal support. Together we can work on meeting your breastfeeding goals whatever they may be!

What will you find here?

Antenatal Breastfeeding Classes - Held Monthly in North Curl Curl or Online - Learn all about feeding before the birth of your baby.

One on One Breastfeeding Help after the birth of your baby. In home, fast and specific breastfeeding assistance when you need it most. 

Special Seminars and Webinars for help with specific topics like bottle refusal. In Person and Telehealth appointments are available so that I can help you wherever you are in Australia.

I’m as passionate about this work as the day I started and I look forward to supporting you on your journey soon. My approach is zero judgement and I support you, whatever your goal. Read more info below for what’s involved.

Peta x

WHAT DOES AN IBCLC DO?

Debrief your unique birth story. Help you to understand what happened and hold your hand and your heart as you let it out. Then we can move through and make space for feeding.

Unpack your feeding journey to date. We go back to the very first feed and everything that happened since then. Understanding what has happened can help us to make a plan for what is next.

Support your feeding goals and choices and help you work towards meeting them. Your breastfeeding journey is your experience and I am just here to help and support whatever that goal is for you. This includes exclusive feeding, combination feeding right through to weaning.

Full Lactation Assessment including a full feed, breast anatomy and an infant oral functional exam and weight checks to help form a plan.

Create and update realistic feeding plans. Plans can change every day or every few days, depending on what happens with each tool we introduce and the age of the baby. Breastfeeding is a fast moving, dynamic situation and no 24hrs with a newborn is the same! I am in touch with you regularly, checking in and adjusting as we go.

Support your mental health. IBCLC’s are often the first person to realise you might be suffering postnatal depression. You do not need to go through that alone. I can help you with resources and options. All plans given factor your mental health.

Support your partner to support you. The biggest success outcome of breastfeeding is support. Helping your partner understand how to help you will help the whole family.

Educate you and help you to understand how and why things work the way they do. Breastfeeding is on one hand simple, and on the other hand, not as simple as one might think. Understanding feeding habits, the influence of hormones, cluster feeding, witching hours, growth spurts and natural biological baby wiring can help you be more accepting of why things are happening and often help you stop fighting the wake ups!

Support you as feeding changes as your baby grows and gets older.

Educate and plan for returning to work - Pumping, milk storage, building a stash, getting the baby to take a bottle and weaning if that is your choice..

Be your cheerleader. Your wins are wins we share! I am so excited when we are able to turn things around for you!

Support you in your grief if feeding doesn’t work out how you want it to. Help you to understand why breastfeeding isn’t working out and getting answers so that you can move through this time and space with peace. Discuss and plan for alternative feeding methods.

Unpick barriers in the system that get in the way of successful breastfeeding. I’ll never stop fighting for women and motherhood. Being an IBCLC means I spend a lot of time looking at national policy documents and talking to politicians to fight for parents rights!

Advocacy work to change the system so it stops being stacked against mothers.

Love on you and your babies.

I would love to work with you and your family. If I sound like the right person for you, please make an appointment below. I offer a 90min initial consultation that includes the next 7 days of follow up phone calls, texts and plans. Then if we need more time and another in person session, I offer a 45min follow up appointment that includes another 7 days of phone and text support. If you cannot find a timeslot, please email me for an urgent appointment. Initial appointments are held in your home on the Northern Beaches and North Shore of Sydney. Follow up appointments and shorter appointments for weaning, pumping and more are available on Thursdays in North Curl Curl.

In Home Consultations are Monday, Wednesday and Friday on the Northern Beaches and North Shore of Sydney.

Follow Up Consultations and Shorter Appointments - Thursdays In Clinic in North Curl Curl.

Telehealth - Anytime,

Rebates may be available with Medibank Private and BUPA depending on your plan and level of coverage.

Much love,

Peta x

Book an appointment.

NEED HELP?
Book an appointment with Peta Arthurson, IBCLC.

INITIAL IN HOME 90 MIN CONSULTATIONS - WITH 7 DAYS TEXT AND PHONE FOLLOW UP

The initial visit is held in your home and is an up to 90min session where we cover a ton of information, I observe a full feed and make recommendations and achievable plans with you. Then for one week afterwards you have phone and text access to me. Monday’s Wednesday’s and Friday’s - Northern Beaches and North Shore Sydney.
Initial in home consultations are $280 and include 7 days of phone and text support and plan revision.

FOLLOW UP | WEANING | PUMPING CONSULTATIONS - WITH 7 DAYS OF TEXT AND PHONE FOLLOW UP

45min short appointments are for follow ups, weaning or pumping consults, have an older baby or we have worked together before and you want to have some of your questions answered, these appointments are 45 mins in length and are held in North Curl Curl on Thursday’s. These appointments also include 7 days of phone and text follow up. In Clinic Follow Up Consultations - Thursday’s - North Curl Curl.

Telehealth Zoom Appointments are available anytime.

Check online calendar for live time booking and availability. Please note: I do live on the Northern Beaches. If you are booking from anywhere on the North Shore, please book middle of the day appointments so that I can avoid peak hour traffic!

Please complete the booking forms in detail to best help me to understand your individual requirements.

You will be sent a confirmation email and then a more detailed message with information about your appointment closer to the time. Rebates may be available with Medibank Private and BUPA depending on your plan and level of coverage.

Please check the calendar availability below and book online or shoot me a message via email and I will see what space I can hold for you. Some emergency last minute appointments can also be made by emailing info@beachesbaby.com.au

I look forward to supporting you soon.
Peta x

CLIENT LOVE

Peta gave me the hope and confidence to persevere with breastfeeding.
Every time she came around she came up with an effective solution that spurred me to keep going.
There were many days when I said ‘that’s it I’m going to formula’ and ‘I can’t do this anymore’ or ‘is he getting too little or too much’
I am now learning to trust my instinct and trust the process of this journey thanks to Peta.
Peta also spent time checking in with me via text message to see how things were going, and to trouble shoot any niggles I was having.
I can’t recommend Peta enough. Myself and my partner are so happy we reached out when we did! Thank you Peta, you are great at what you do and we are so appreciative of all your time and support. We can clearly tell how passionate you are with babies and breastfeeding.
— Melanie & David
Peta was so helpful with getting me breastfeed properly. I had 3 nurses and a doula try help me but Peta was the only one that got my little dude to latch properly.
— Amber
Peta helped me through a very rough period of nipple damage after the birth of my son, her support and dedication to ensure my long term breastfeeding goals were met was truly invaluable and I’m not sure I could have done it without her! Not only is she highly skilled, she’s so passionate about supporting women and really went above and beyond to check in on me (even during her own holidays!). Peta helped me set up a plan, manage the damage which occurred in hospital and did multiple visits to my home to ensure my technique and latch continued to improve. I now absolutely love breastfeeding my son and can’t thank Peta enough, wound highly recommend Beaches Baby for education or post natal care and support.
— Lauren
Peta has been an amazing support on my breastfeeding journey. I first got I touch with Peta when we bought our daughter home during lockdown. As the midwife’s weren’t doing home visits we just wanted someone to come see us so we could ask heaps of questions. Peta watched me feed and helped with our many many questions. Since then Peta has helped provide guidance which I have no doubt has kept me solely breastfeeding when I was getting other advice that just didn’t feel right for us at the time. I have no doubt that without Peta things could have been very different. I’m so grateful for her support. Thanks Peta
— Rebecca
Peta helped me and my baby get back on track after our 6 day old was poorly. Can’t thank her enough for the emotional support and super fast results. Great advice given with empathy and clear direction- exactly what we needed! Thanks so much!
— Lucy
Peta has been absolute saviour in helping us get on track with feeding our newborn. We left the hospital after birth with a relentless and unforgiving triple feeding schedule (breastfeeding + expressed bottle + formula bottle + pumping) handed to us by midwives to help get bub’s weight up, and felt very confused and unclear about the overall plan to help us get to exclusively breast feeding. We engaged Peta at 1.5 weeks after birth and within just 5 days, Peta was able to help us transition from an exhausting triple feeding schedule to exclusively breast feeding, and do so in a way that feel informed, safe and smart. Peta’s approach is super individualised - she helped us with our latch, checked for tongue ties, debriefed my birth and pregnancy to identify cause for issues, and was able to confirm with confidence that I was transferring more than enough milk to my newborn via breastfeeding alone.
Midwives have been astounded by bub’s weight progress and have said they rarely see mums transition from triple feeding to EBF this quickly (within 1.5 weeks of birth). Bub is now +8% above birth weight at Day 15 which midwives also said they rarely see even from second time mums. We credit Peta’s guidance for these awesome results!
Peta is hands on and super communicative - proactively checking in on us daily with texts and facetimes to make us feel supported. We’d recommend Peta a million times over to anyone who needs extra support on their baby’s feeding journey!
— Natalie & Matt
Peta helped me through a very rough period of nipple damage after the birth of my son, her support and dedication to ensure my long term breastfeeding goals were met was truly invaluable and I’m not sure I could have done it without her! Not only is she highly skilled, she’s so passionate about supporting women and really went above and beyond to check in on me (even during her own holidays!). Peta helped me set up a plan, manage the damage which occurred in hospital and did multiple visits to my home to ensure my technique and latch continued to improve. I now absolutely love breastfeeding my son and can’t thank Peta enough, wound highly recommend Beaches Baby for education or post natal care and support.
— Lauren

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