Skilled Lactation Solutions, LLC

Skilled Lactation Solutions, LLC Virtual, Office, and In-Home Lactation Appointments
Specializing in Holistic Lactation Care

08/30/2025

Way too many people don't know this.

Babies these days don't move enough. Just look up "container baby syndrome". Experts say even 6 hours a day spent contained is too much. All the swaddles, swings, bouncers, actually keep babies from being able to develop properly and use their reflexes to grow and feed well.

Getting babies moving before feeding them is one thing that can help. They use their whole bodies to feed, not just their mouths, so we love getting them warmed up before they latch or take a bottle.

Try getting in more floor time and movement with your baby and see if it helps!

For a cat-mom, she sure has some great advice!It's harder than ever to have a baby these days. There is constantly someo...
08/29/2025

For a cat-mom, she sure has some great advice!

It's harder than ever to have a baby these days. There is constantly someone in your face making you feel like you're doing it all wrong. Western society is basically training us to ignore our intuition so we're better employees and buy more stuff. One of my favorite things to ask new clients with concerns about a gadget or method is "Would this have been needed 100 years ago?" If the answer is no, it's probably not needed now (with the exception of pumps and bottles since being home full time with our babies isn't possible for most of us).

Not even being a huge TS fan, I watched the New Heights podcast episode and was struck by the wisdom and natural intelligence that most of us end up being pressured to ignore.

Let's hear the best thing you learned from her (or another favorite artist or author) below! 👇



Being a parent these days is so hard. Every scroll and swipe comes with more confusion. You question your own sanity. Ar...
08/28/2025

Being a parent these days is so hard.

Every scroll and swipe comes with more confusion. You question your own sanity. Are you doing it wrong? Are you messing your baby up? Why isn't it working for you the way it works for the people you follow?

Our favorite thing is helping YOU build confidence and solve your own problems. Without a subscription. Without a method. Learn the information the people who are inventing a problem and selling a solution don't want you to know.

No gimmicks. No sales pitch. Let's talk baby cues, feeding norms, and sleep truths. Sign up with the link in our bio! Spots are limited.

Navigating nursing/pumping can be hard enough as a parent and you’re supposed to be able to rely on your lactation consu...
08/20/2025

Navigating nursing/pumping can be hard enough as a parent and you’re supposed to be able to rely on your lactation consultant for support. The ugly truth is that every profession has good and bad people and not every “good” professional can specialize in every area 🤷‍♀️. These are some of the most common things we hear parents get told, have you heard any of them? Comment below if anything else tipped you off to know it wasn’t a good fit and you wanted to see someone else.

"I ate a $10 lactation brownie and felt full in an hour!" It didn't help you make more milk 🙈. Any treat would do the sa...
08/19/2025

"I ate a $10 lactation brownie and felt full in an hour!" It didn't help you make more milk 🙈. Any treat would do the same thing.

⚪ If your baby's latch is painful, that gets in the way of the oxytocin response.

⚪ If your baby's oral muscles aren't working properly, the nerve signals don't get sent to release oxytocin and the suction strength may not be high enough to remove the milk well.

⚪ If the pump flanges don't fit well or are uncomfortable, same thing! Not a good oxytocin response.

⚪ Dark chocolate is a great treat choice because it's not only delicious, it's a good source of magnesium which helps boost that oxytocin response.

⚪ Any physical contact with a loved one, pet, or adult time 👀 🛏️💦 releases oxytocin.

⚪ Just because milk is released doesn't mean you make more. That is a whole other hormonal process that prolactin is in charge of.

This is why you might FEEL like your milk booster is working but it's actually not doing a thing for your supply. Any questions about the letdown? Let us know in the comments!

Let's all take a deep breath before tackling this one. "Full feeds" is a scam. This idea that if you stuff your baby lik...
08/14/2025

Let's all take a deep breath before tackling this one.

"Full feeds" is a scam. This idea that if you stuff your baby like a sausage and make sure they get a certain amount of milk or certain number of feedings, it will change how they sleep at night. It SOUNDS really supportive. We're not denying babies food, we're just making sure they're getting full feeds!

What we're doing is overriding their biology. We're changing much more than how they eat and sleep. We're changing how they grow thrive, and respond to their own cues. We're teaching them to stuff their stomach to capacity whether they're hungry or not, and to not eat outside of scheduled meal times whether they're hungry or not.

Let's remember that facts are not shaming. You'll hear people say "Well it worked for my baby and they turned out fine." And babies exposed to ci******es and alcohol during pregnancy, babies in cars without car seats, and babies given rice cereal and orange juice from birth had parents that said the exact same thing. When we have more information, we can make different decisions.

This topic is a tough one to talk about. If anyone says otherwise, please ask them for the studies to support their claim! Studies on gastric emptying time of breastfeeding, biological feeding and sleeping patterns, and night wakings to eat being protective against SIDS are readily available.

It wasn't easy. This family worked through so many challenges. What started with a gut feeling that maybe their goals we...
08/10/2025

It wasn't easy.

This family worked through so many challenges. What started with a gut feeling that maybe their goals weren't doomed ended with more milk than their baby can drink and a sweet, successful nursing relationship. They worked hard and didn't let anyone define their journey or limit what they were capable of when they worked together as a team with support to meet their goals.

Let's be clear. WE didn't do this. We supported them and THEY did this. We can't just work magic out of thin air. We depend on the dedication and hard work of the families we're working with. Let's celebrate their success 🥂

You don't have to settle for what someone else says. That doesn't mean every outcome is perfect. Sometimes goals need to be adjusted. But you should be able to look at your feeding relationship (whatever that looks like) and say proudly "We did that!"

If you don't feel like you have the support to meet your goals, you don't have to struggle alone. We'll be right there alongside you giving the tools and strategies you might be missing to get you to the next level.

SEMI is out there doing the work 💪
08/09/2025

SEMI is out there doing the work 💪

How does capitalism make nursing your baby harder?So many ways. Formula companies know that if they give your doctor fre...
08/06/2025

How does capitalism make nursing your baby harder?

So many ways. Formula companies know that if they give your doctor free cans and get in your head through social media, you're more likely to reach for their brand when you're struggling. "It's for your mental health. Just combo feed, it's SO much easier. There really isn't a difference between formula and breastmilk these days. Fed is best." At the same time, they're behind your back making sure you get a short maternity leave. They also sponsor infant nutrition education during medical school 🫠

Insurance companies play games and say you're covered, but build in a bunch of exclusions or pay your IBCLC less than $20 for a 60 minute assessment of you and your baby.

Big companies find loopholes for insurance to pay them for the work your IBCLC does, then they toss your IBCLC a small portion of the fee. This year TLN decided they weren't making enough money (many millions) off BCBS and dropped the plan with only a few weeks' notice, leaving those families scrambling.

Underprivileged people don't get access to private practice IBCLCs and are told to ask their pediatrician or go to a hospital clinic with long waits and limited expertise.

We can make a change if we work together. These systems hurt EVERYONE!

We have a huge problem.We're supposed to be focused on creating sustainable support systems for families to meet their f...
08/01/2025

We have a huge problem.

We're supposed to be focused on creating sustainable support systems for families to meet their feeding goals. That's cute, but we live in a country where formula companies spend millions lobbying against paid parental leave, where the baby sleep industry brings in billions of dollars while lying to parents, where 1 in 4 parents of color go back to work within 2 weeks of giving birth and are 9x more likely to be offered formula in the hospital, where insurance finds creative ways to deny lactation coverage, where medical professionals can tack on a lactation credential without any clinical training, where colonial systems have stolen the birthright of human milk, where billions of dollars in military spending is sent to foreign countries while babies in war zones are starving to death, where society tells you to cover up and not to nurse an older baby but glorifies hypersexualization and "getting your body back", where our culture actively destroys your mental health then tells you to wean to protect it.

This week we're focised on what it ACTUALLY looks like to build a sustainable support system. That starts with putting babies before bottom line. Human milk feeding could save over 300 billion dollars and save over 800,000 lives of children under 5. Corporate greed is costing us.

To celebrate, we'll be giving away a Tula mesh carrier that will support you in nurturing your baby from newborn to toddlerhood! As an added bonus you'll also get a 30 minute virtual session with us to walk through using your new carrier and even nursing in it!

To enter, 1) follow 2) leave a comment with something you love about your feeding relationship and 3) tag a friend for an extra entry! Winner will be selected randomly on 8/7 and announced in our stories at 3pm EST. Open to US residents only and not affiliated with Instagram.


August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week! This year's theme is "Create Sustainable Support Systems". We're going to spend ...
08/01/2025

August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week!

This year's theme is "Create Sustainable Support Systems". We're going to spend the week focused on "Babies Before Bottom Line" - exploring the systems in America that destroy the goals of the 83.2% of parents who WANT to give human milk to their babies. Only 24.9% make it to 6mos without formula.

We have something new planned every day, ending with a great giveaway on 8/7 to wrap up the week! Make sure you're following and turn on notifications so you don't miss anything!

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