TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant

TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant Providing compassionate assistance and evidence-based resources for breastfeeding, sleep, solids etc

No hats indoors 🚫
24/11/2025

No hats indoors 🚫

When we take the emotion out of the equation and look at infant formula through the lens of Ultra-Processed Food, we can...
22/11/2025

When we take the emotion out of the equation and look at infant formula through the lens of Ultra-Processed Food, we can more clearly see how corporate interests intentionally steamroll the needs of infants.

To be clear – this is not a question of whether parents should have a right to choose how they feed their infants (they should).

Rather it is a question about devious, manipulative corporate marketing (this has to end) and and how these tactics actually remove choice from families. And this can have long-term consequences.

Re-thinking burping
22/11/2025

Re-thinking burping

Do you work with mothers and babies? Don’t miss this amazing day of learning 💟💟💟 You bet I’ll be there 🙌
22/11/2025

Do you work with mothers and babies? Don’t miss this amazing day of learning 💟💟💟 You bet I’ll be there 🙌

BMAA is delighted to announce our next educational event. Featuring keynote speaker, internationally renowned IBCLC Catherine Watson-Genna.

This event is for doctors, lactation consultants, midwives, Plunket nurses, well child providers, nurse practitioners and anyone else working directly with breastfeeding families.

Mark it in your calendars, tell your colleagues, and email us at hello@bmaa.org.nz to register your interest now. We can’t wait to welcome you!

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20/11/2025

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Imagine a world where postnatal breastfeeding support was universal and expected 💝🥰😍
20/11/2025

Imagine a world where postnatal breastfeeding support was universal and expected 💝🥰😍

What does breastfeeding help and support look like in cultures where exclusive breastfeeding is universal? This 2025 qualitative systematic interview study answers that question. Imagine a place where instinct and learning intersect, where women “just know” how to breastfeed because they are surrounded by support that guides them through the process while they rest and recover from childbirth. Free download at this link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41221161/

Love those cuddles 🥰
20/11/2025

Love those cuddles 🥰

Research tells us that babies who co-sleep in infancy, especially in those early years get around 13,000 extra hours of touch.

Thirteen thousand.

Because when you keep your baby close, day and night, they’re getting 10 to 12 extra hours a day of your skin, your warmth, your presence.

That’s not spoiling.
That’s wiring.

Touch is brain food.
It releases oxytocin, serotonin…
It lowers cortisol.

It teaches your baby’s body how to feel safe.
How to come back to calm.

We actually have studies showing
co -sleeping babies have lower stress reactivity meaning their little bodies bounce back from stress faster.

That’s not dependence.
That’s coregulation.
That’s safety being built from the inside out.

So the next time you’re contact napping,
bed sharing, doing whatever gets you both some rest and someone tells you you’re creating bad habits, remember this ~

You’re not creating a clingy baby.
You’re creating a resilient one 🖤

The Breastmilk Queen - Amy McGlade 🥰

Dedicated to all the māmā with 4-month-olds 💟💟💟
20/11/2025

Dedicated to all the māmā with 4-month-olds 💟💟💟

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19/11/2025

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Cuddle all the little ones 🥰🥰🥰
16/11/2025

Cuddle all the little ones 🥰🥰🥰

The protective power of breastfeeding goes both ways 💥
15/11/2025

The protective power of breastfeeding goes both ways 💥

A lower risk of breast cancer has long been recognized among the benefits of breastfeeding for mothers. Now, researchers are closer to understanding why.

A new study found that:
✅ Having babies and breastfeeding causes CD8+ T cells—a special type of immune cell—to accumulate in normal breast tissue.
✅ These protective cells remain in the tissue for decades after childbirth.
✅ They act as long-term guards, helping prevent breast cancer—especially the aggressive triple-negative type.
✅ However, this protective T-cell response was observed ONLY after a full cycle of lactation and breast recovery.

Lifelong health benefits for babies AND mothers—that’s why BFUSA partners with facilities to support every family in meeting their breastfeeding goals.🤱🏽

Awww 🥰
14/11/2025

Awww 🥰

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Auckland

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Monday 9:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5pm
Friday 9:30am - 1pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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Supporting families

For those living in pandemic quarantine, it isn’t very hard to imagine -- being surrounded with people, but unable to access any support. That’s how I started out my mothering journey. Even though I lived in Europe’s largest city, I felt like I was alone on an island. I couldn’t speak the local language. I didn’t know where to turn. This experience 20 years ago launched my passion for supporting mothers and babies.

First, I reached out and found support for myself. Then, I started getting calls from other isolated mothers who just wanted to talk. Before long, I was going to lactation conferences (for fun, while on vacation!) and building a lending library. In 2002, I founded the Moscow Mommy Milk Meetup, a weekly get-together for mothers in my city. Several years later, this group transformed into Russia’s first La Leche League group, led by Katya Lokshina, a friend, a fellow breastfeeding enthusiast, and Russia’s first LLL Leader.

After more than a decade of calling Russia home, my family moved to Minsk. There, I started a similar mother support group, which blossomed into the first LLL group in Belarus, led by Olya Prominski, the first LLL Leader in that country. Just before our next relocation to Kyiv, I passed the exam to become the first IBCLC in that corner of the world. Since then, I have maintained close contact with the network of lactation professionals in the former Soviet Union. These women are doing incredible work under complex conditions. They continue to inspire me!

In 2011, we exchanged globe-trotting for the peaceful beauty of Aotearoa, and are happily settled into our new lives as proud Kiwis. In Auckland, I’ve worked as a parent educator and a lactation consultant. This included time in private practice, as well as several years in a busy breastfeeding clinic, working with a doctor who specializes in Breastfeeding Medicine. In short, I’ve seen it all with regards to the challenges faced by parents.