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✨holistic breast/ chest/ bottle feeding support
✨honouring matrescence
✨womb to world offerings
✨New Mills High Peak

Welcome and congratulations on your pregnancy/ birth. My name is Naomi and I am an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) supporting women antenatally and throughout their feeding journeys. Based in Manchester I offer face to face and virtual support. Have a look at my offerings at www.naomithelc.com and get in touch.

30/01/2026

✨Weight gain expectations when weight is faltering.✨

I am seeing far too many families whose babies have met faltering weight criteria at multiple points.

• first few days of life lost >10% of birth weight
• not back to birth weight by 3 weeks (or more)
•falling through centiles

✨Babies are expected to double their birth weight by 4 months and triple it by a year.
IBCLC work often involves optimising milk transfer at the breast and/ or supplementing while addressing root cause issues.
I am a strong advocate of holistic support, I absolutely love seeing families early enough to nip issues in the bud. However there is nothing more frustrating than families being falsely reassured, feeding plans stopped prematurely and being told baby is finding their own line etc.

⚠️Consistently gaining below expected weight will result in a baby’s weight continuing to falter.
The main cause of gaining below expected is that baby is not taking enough milk on board. The why is important to find out so that any plan is tailored to you and your baby. Feeding plans for faltering weight should result in gains in excess of expected.
✨If a baby is not used to larger volumes, they may struggle to take what’s needed for the first 24 hours or so. Then tend to develop a ferocious appetite while they catch up to their expected weight for age.
✨Gains > 56g a day are common while baby replenishes fluids and then fat.

Recent families I have supported with at breast optimisation (no pumping etc. needed)
👶 oral dysfunction and reflux 56g a day
👶 > 10% weight loss in early days 250g in 3 days
⚖ I don’t want families to be dreading weight checks. If we have the right plan in place, know what to look for in baby's feeding, then appropriate gains are to be expected. If these are not happening then this is more information for next steps.

✨Feeding support people: Consider reframing “this baby is just gaining slowly” to "this baby is consistently gaining weight below expected for age”. If you are not sure why or what plan is needed refer on. For more information see www.breastfeedingsupport/supplementingtheunderweightbaby https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/faltering-growth/

17/12/2025

Life recently

1. Postpartum support for a twin family
2. & 3. first stage of craniosacral therapy training
4. client review
5. Ongoing tongue function support for families. Great example of where the tongue shouldn't and should be resting.
6. Mother led reduction of feeding for my 3 year old nursling. Down to morning, lunch if with me and before bed. Feeling ok where we are for now.
7. Taking my own advice and asking for more support for myself and my kids

What's filling your cup this season?

12/12/2025

✨“Is your baby feeding every 3 hours?” This is not guidance. It is clinician short hand. ✨

This is asked to quickly make sure that newborns are getting at least 8 feeds in 24 hours. To meet this lower end of expected they actually mean, “are they feeding at least 3 hours from the start of one feed to the start of the next?”

Unfortunately, against UNICEF and NHS guidance, there is a resurgence in promoting scheduling feeds. Routine questioning at newborn checks “is baby feeding every three hours?” Can, on the surface, seem to support this, making parents vulnerable to misinformation.

In the recent past, scheduling and stretching time between feeds was made popular in a book written by a nanny who shall not be named. Now there are apps, social media, sleep “experts” and notably, nanny's who have been trained by an organisation “used by royalty”, advising parents to feed their baby 3 hourly for the first 2 weeks and then moving onto 4 hourly in preparation to sleep train. Increasing in popularity are "feed, play, sleep" type schedules. All with the aim of getting baby into a routine.

⚠️These approaches are just not supportive of breastfeeding/ chest feeding or infant brain development however baby is fed.

⚠️Scheduling feeds (including sleep training) risks
◦ Under feeding baby- weight gain issues
◦ Not establishing full milk production
◦ Mastitis spectrum conditions- blocked ducts/ mastitis/ abscess
◦ Reduced or suppressed attunement to baby including dismissing instincts and baby cues.

You and your baby are a dyad. Your anatomy and physiology are unique to you. Babies are usually very good at establishing feeding if we let them.

Babies need to feed a minimum of 8-12 times in 24 hours. Nursing is not just for nutrition it is comfort and connection. We don’t count how many times we kiss our little ones on the head after all.

I highly recommend reading Emma Pickett’s article “The dangerous obsession with the infant feeding interval” which explains how focusing on spacing feeds impacts the nursing dyad.

⚡As always, there will be some situations where the frequency of feeding is genuinely part of a feeding issue, again trust your instincts⚡

01/08/2025

⚡️World breastfeeding week ⚡️

Breastfeeding/ chest feeding is a human right for women/ birthing people and their babies around the world.

Genocide, wars and human made famines seek to ensure this is removed.

Breastfeeding in emergencies/ war zones/ while living through genocide is life saving. Formula is hard if not impossible to get and making this up safely is often not possible.

So this week when you’ll see click bait and token “experts” on daytime tv seeking to make breastfeeding week about “choices” and formula feeding. You can instead choose to put energy into investing your support in charities on the ground in Palestine 🇵🇸

I have seen a lot of questioning of how donations are making it to families and children- the answers are politely given, but I will say, go look on their websites or search posts before questioning this and putting more labour onto these charities.

.infant.nutrition.alliance

19/05/2025

My youngest is 31 months they just slept through the night for the first time

This is normal.

Night time parenting for growing brains is developmentally physiologically and anthropologically expected.

Your little humans will need you intensely for the first 3 years. At that point their brain is 80% developed.

Managing expectations, gathering supports, adopting radical acceptance for this season of parenthood.

Have I personally been there for every night of these 31 months? No. She’s been for nights away with her dad and siblings. Breastfeeding is a relationship, theirs is different.

Sleep is developmental.

Yes things impact it- illness, allergies, weight issues, oral function etc. support can look to address any issues.
However the societal expectations on our littlest people are absolutely at odds from what we know they need.

Check out for more information

🍉 It's been nearly a year since I posted on my grid. And still

All the children are ours. Born under a different sky.🍉

23/05/2024

Snuggled safe feeding to sleep warm under cloth weaved in Palestine. While I witness babies and children your age living and dying in this genocide. They are our children born under a different sky 🇵🇸

25/03/2024

✨Lactation support for multiples✨

If you are a multiple birth family in need of specialist breastfeeding support and are struggling to access a lactation consultant, Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets UK charity is offering face to face support with a local IBCLC on a pay what you can afford basis.

This can be nothing if needed, but they ask that you consider fundraising for them in the future, or a donation of whatever you can afford.

I am proud to be on the Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets UK register offering breastfeeding support to multiple birth families. I have supported multiple families and undergone additional training with this fab charity.
I recommend joining the Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets UK Facebook group. They are a fantastic, welcoming, evidenced based group that support all feeding goals and methods.
www.facebook.com/groups/bftwinsuk

07/01/2024

✨Establishing supply✨

Your mature milk will “come in” as a result of birthing the placenta regardless if you feed or not. It is a hormonal driven response.

In order for local or autonomic control of milk to occur you need frequent and effective milk removal from birth. This switches on prolactin (the milk making hormone) receptors in the breast.

✨Frequent? Yes at least 3 hourly from birth (gives the minimum 8 feeds in 24 hours) but in reality many newborns expect 1.5-2 hours between start of one feed to start of next.

✨Effective? Watch the pattern of the feed. A suck swallow ratio of 2 or 1 suck per swallow for bursts of 10-30 with 5 ish second pauses before repeating for most of the feed, baby comes off themselves and is offered other side.

⚠️If baby’s isn’t driving milk transfer themselves (high suck to swallow ratio, short bursts, feeds taking less than 5 mins and more than 40 as a guide) then compressions and switch nursing can help the parent to drive the flow and keep them actively feeding.

⛽If they are not latching then mimic newborn feeding by hand expressing and switch to a hospital grade double pump when your milk transitions.

06/11/2023

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18/10/2023

☀️I've just celebrated one year around the sun with my third nursling☀️

🎉Positive/ neutral things about nursing for me currently include:

✨Parenting tool for when she's upset or tired
✨Immune support- my mature immune system supports hers through her milk

🧱 Working through it things:

✨Teething/ biting
✨Aversion, especially in the autumn/ winter of my cycle
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Feeding an older baby/ toddler involves parenting skills, boundaries and love, same as any other aspect of care. To those that say "you're only doing it for yourself"....Well yes, doing it for my health, but also for this baby in my arms and for any future children that come from this mother line.

It's not just milk, it's parenting. We call the mother/ parent and nursling a dyad for a reason. There's not one without the other. Influencing each other.

✨What did you, or are you, finding good or tricky about nursing an older baby? Let me know!

08/09/2023

I am getting back into offering IBCLC support following mat leave for third (and final) baby. I have some antenatal sessions booked in this month already.

I’d love to support you too, so message me at Naomitrousdell@outlook.com with your postcode and enquiry. You can see my offerings on naomithelc.com however I'm holding off on packages right now due to a move in the pipeline. I do have limited availability so if I can’t support you I will signpost to those who can.

27/04/2023

Part 3. After care following tongue tie division

✨pain relief for baby- skin to skin, breastfeeding, baths and cuddles
✨osteopathy to address tension that was from tie
✨continued gentle intra oral and body exercises to support tongue function
✨tongue lift every 6 hours for 3 weeks, tapered down the fourth week (no disruptive wound massage)
✨ continued to take a whole body approach- oral play changed as she grew- o ball, long teethers.
✨love seeing her smile and that tongue elevated!

Tongue tie division is one part of the journey. And each baby and journey is different.

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