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What does a breastfeeding counsellor do?

A Breastfeeding Counsellor assists women who are wanting to breastfeed. You may be working with a mother in late pregnancy to identify potential problems, with women who have newborns and are experiencing difficulties, or with women with older babies or children.


A Breastfeeding Counsellor will encounter a range of problems and challenges that may include:

  • women with positioning problems, pain on breastfeeding or some of the common breastfeeding problems such as thrush, engorgement and mastitis

  • women who are wanting to wean their babies from breastfeeding to other alternatives

  • women who want to feed an adopted baby

  • women who are trying to increase their milk supply

  • women who wish to continue breastfeeding when they are pregnant with another child

There are a whole host of situations that a Breastfeeding Counsellor will come across. As a Childbirth International Breastfeeding Counsellor you will gain knowledge and skills in helping women through these problems, and also accumulate a comprehensive list of resources for helping parents when their problems are more complicated than you can assist with.

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