MLCA Member IBCLCs In-Network With Unicare
Sharla is a compassionate and knowledgeable IBCLC in private practice. She offers prenatal private and group classes; postpartum home, office, and virtual consultations; and a breastfeeding support group. Sharla is in network with Aetna and Unicare, and families can seek reimbursement from BCBS of MA, Harvard Pilgrim, Tufts, and AllWays.
Sharla experienced her own breastfeeding challenges as a new mother and she seeks to help others avoid or alleviate theirs. She helps families achieve their unique breastfeeding goals; she is an inclusive and non-judgmental practitioner and serves all families looking for assistance with infant-feeding. Sharla supports families experiencing latch and positioning issues, breast and nipple pain, slow weight gain, low milk supply, oversupply, plugged ducts/mastitis, multiple births, breastfeeding after reduction or breast surgery, induced lactation, tethered oral tissues (tongue tie), tandem nursing; the return to work; the starting of solids; and weaning, among other various lactation challenges.
Sharla’s passion for human lactation began in 1994 at the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied nutrition and dietetics. Her studies and training continued as a midwifery student; a breastfeeding mother of two; a La Leche League Leader; a birth and postpartum doula; and a public health nutritionist and CLC at the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). She earned a Master of Public Health degree in Maternal and Child Health from Boston University.
Sharla’s website: www.sharlalloydhalperin.com
Email Sharla: info@sharlalloydhalperin.com
Call Sharla: 617.447.8237
Office location: Dedham, MA
Has scale
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Offers home visits, office visits, and virtual visits
Serves Boston, Metrowest, South of Boston, South Shore, and North of Boston
In network with Aetna, Unicare, Fallon, and Humana/Tricare
Lo Nigrosh(she/her) is a mom of 2, an IBCLC, a childbirth educator and a doula who has been helping families feed their babies in the ways that feel best for them for years. She came to this work through her own intense struggle to feed her first child in 2013, and knew immediately that this would be her life's work. When you work with Lo, you will combine your expertise of your family's needs, your own body, and what you've learned about your baby in the days, weeks and months that you've been getting to know one another with her expertise of hormones, milk supply, and physiology of the human body to come up with a feeding plan that will bring more ease and less anxiety to feeding your baby. Lo is also the host of the podcast The Milk Making Minutes which explores baby feeding struggles and triumphs through the lens of systemic and cultural barriers.
I offer a support group periodically at the Athol Public Library in coordination with the baby and toddler story hour. I also host a podcast called The Milk Making Minutes which explores breastfeeding struggles and triumphs through the lens of systemic barriers and I have an online community on Facebook called The Milk Making Minutes which discusses similar themes.
Lo’s Website: https://www.quabbinbirthservices.com/
Email Lo: lo@quabbinbirthservices.com
Call Lo: (413) 230-7516
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I am an expert in maternal and child health, specializing in nutrition. I am highly skilled in helping clients reach a variety of feeding goals and creating sustainable solutions to infrequent or persistent challenges. I am here for you if you need help with latch, sore nipples, tongue/lip tie, mastitis, thrush, slow weight gain, undersupply/oversupply, pumping, transitioning back to work, weaning, and starting solids. I look forward to providing personalized and effective assistance for you and your little one.
Andrea’s website: http://oceansidelactation.com
Email Andrea: oceansidelactation@gmail.com
Call Andrea: (857) 302-3050
Office location: 31A Pleasant St, Newburyport, MA 01950
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Home Visits, Private Practice, Office Practice, Phone Consults, Breastfeeding Education, Nutrition, Research (NORTH SHORE, MA)
Baystate Medical Center supports families throughout the lactation journey. Our lactation staff can assist you before delivery with prenatal outpatient services and breastfeeding education. While in the hospital you will receive an in-room postpartum visit by our lactation staff, and support for you and your baby while in the special care nursery or children's hospital. After discharge we provide face-to-face or virtual outpatient lactation consultation services with an IBCLC at Wesson Women's hospital, postnatal feeding classes, and virtual support groups. Our lactation advice line is available for questions 7 days a week.
Kimberly’s website: www.baystatehealth.org/services/obgyn/support/breastfeeding
Email Kimberly: kimberly.congden@baystatehealth.org
Call Kimberly: 413-794-0256
Office location: Baystate Medical Center, Wesson Women's, 759 Chestnut St., Springfield, MA 01199
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All insurances accepted.