Connections Lactation Care

09/27/2025

08/16/2025

Postpartum & Breastfeeding Workshop for Couples!

Join us for a hands-on, couple-friendly workshop next Saturday, covering everything from breastfeeding basics, advanced feeding tips, and navigating postpartum!

What you’ll learn:

🤱🏻 Expert breastfeeding education —
Learn strategies for optimizing feeding, maintaining supply, and overcoming challenges at any stage of your breastfeeding journey

🤱🏻Bottle, pacifier, and pump guidance — Understand how and when to introduce them, tips for keeping your milk supply strong, and troubleshooting common challenges.

🤱🏻Postpartum mood & emotional wellness — Recognizing signs of postpartum mood disorders, how to seek help, and remedies

🤱🏻Hands-on activities — Create a beautiful breastfeeding keepsake jewelry piece to help you track feeding sessions in style and also as a tool while you nursing your distracted infant!

🤱🏻Feeding tools & demonstrations — See and try various bottles, flanges, and pumps so you feel confident in your choices before investing.

🤱🏻Breastfeeding the first year and beyond — importance and benefits on breastfeeding, how to navigate breastfeeding past infancy and answer the “when to wean” question in a way that works for your family.

Details:
📅 August 23rd
🕐 10:00 AM – 2PM
💲 $40/couple
📍 Location: The Midwives Place

Sign up here!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIIMb_J9H8O1VRO6MjYFcruAlLqNDAIjI_rOZnQdD-cglMFA/viewform

08/03/2025

Happy Breastfeeding Awareness Week! 🤱🏻
This week we honor and celebrate the incredible journey of motherhood and the many ways moms nourish their babies - with love, sacrifice, and strength.

Here at Connections Lactation Care, we’re here to remind you:
You’re not failing. You’re learning.
You’re not alone. You’re supported.
What you’re doing matters, it is purposeful and full of love

You were never meant to do this alone, and you don’t have to. We’re cheering you on, every step of the way. 💗

06/04/2025

In our last post, we emphasized how night time feeds matter.
Daytime and nightime feeds aren’t just about comfort—they count toward your baby’s total intake. Here’s a perfect visual that builds on that.

Some feeds are small and frequent, while others are larger and spaced further apart. This is why some babies may start to take in more during certain feeds, which can lead to longer stretches between them… especially overnight.

This is how breastfeeding works to get you more feeds, and more sleep!

Credit goes to .dietitian for this great visual!

Read more about it here https://lllusa.org/feeding-on-demand/

09/25/2024

Hi Mamas! Our breastfeeding meet-up is happening again next Tuesday.

Join our breastfeeding support group where we can chat, share tips, and make new friendships with other moms in the community. Whether you’re breastfeeding, pumping, or bottle feeding, everyone is welcome (you don’t need to be struggling to join us!).

We meet every first Tuesday of the month at The Midwives Place. Hope to see you there!

07/31/2024

We are officially announcing our bi-weekly breastfeeding support group led by Lilli Moody, IBCLC in Prescott Valley!
This support group is where you can share your experiences, seek advice, and find encouragement as a pregnant or breastfeeding mom.

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week, this upcoming support group I wanted to spread the word and invite you to join our small community of moms!
To celebrate this week, will be handing out breastfeeding goodie bags and yummy snacks 🤍

August 6th at 11AM

📍4051 N Superstition Ct.
Prescott Valley, AZ

*Our group is hosted every other Tuesday at The Midwives Place. This upcoming week will be at a different location (mentioned above) so we have a larger space.

06/02/2024

⭐️ 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬⭐️

These are the most up to date recommendations backed by research published by the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

Did you know most the time you can treat plugged ducts and mastitis at home and skip the antibiotics? 💊

It is NOT normal to get reoccurring plugged ducts and mastitis. If you are experiencing this, reach out to an IBCLC to help you find out the root to the problem!

01/10/2024

Did you know breastmilk has antibacterial and antiviral elements?! Breastmilk is such a great immune booster to protect your little one during cold and flu season 🤧

The components in your breastmilk change when your baby is sick - If you’re exposed to a bacterial or viral infection, your body makes antibodies to combat it! Your baby’s immune system will signal to your body to produce more antibodies and immune-promoting proteins in your breast milk. These antibodies pass into your breastmilk, and therefore on to your baby. Since you and your baby are generally in contact with the same germs, this helps protect your baby from the illnesses that you are both exposed to.

01/04/2024

My name is Lilli Moody, and I am a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC).

I obtained my lactation credentialing education and clinical hours through the University of California San Diego. This highly respected and rigorous academic lactation program provided me training under a multitude of skilled IBCLCs. I am taking my IBCLE board exam in the Spring of 2024.
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I am passionate about all things moms and babies, but breastfeeding and lactation is what I am most enthusiastic about. I have two beautiful boys, and my interest in pursuing lactation as a career started when I had my firstborn. This is in part because I faced many breastfeeding and postpartum challenges. Thankfully, Carol was my lactation consultant during those challenges, and she has inspired me to help support and guide other mothers as they navigate through motherhood. Breastfeeding my children has been the pleasure of a lifetime, and I look forward to helping you meet your goals.

01/04/2024

I’m Carol Kidd, BA, IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant).

I am wife to my handsome husband of 29 years and we have 3 children, two of whom are married.
Breastfeeding has been fascinating to me since the day I became a mother. Such a simple activity with such complex biology and physiology, so integral to the development and healthy attachment of a child, so foundational to the connected family.

I started helping mothers and babies as an accredited La Leche League Leader in 2003. After my third child was born, I felt called to further my education to become an IBCLC and continue to pursue my passion for helping and empowering breastfeeding families during the fragile postpartum period. Over these many years, I have had the privilege of supporting many hundreds of families in their breastfeeding journeys.

My IBCLC certification means that I am an allied health professional with the skills and experience to get to the bottom of the most complex of breastfeeding problems. My goal is to empower you to meet your goal. I will employ all my skills, knowledge, evidenced based information, and resources to do that. I have a network of excellent professionals that I refer to when necessary.

When I am not helping mothers and babies, I love to be in the woods, at the lake, or curled up in front of a movie or series I have seen 100 times. Having my kids around me is my joy.