Milk Matters Infant Feeding Solutions

Milk Matters Infant Feeding Solutions Our non judgemental consultants can help you meet your personal feeding goals.

IBCLCs specialising in difficult to feed breast & bottle fed babies babies (milk and solids) - tongue tie, reflux, colic, faltering growth, & other complex problems Breastfeeding:
The main focus of our work is on how to breastfeed rather than why, although we do cover the latter in some of our antenatal options and online information articles. Mums are often told they should breastfeed but when ni

***es are agony and baby doesn’t seem satisfied or is unsettled all night; she can face a barrage of conflicting (if well intentioned) advice. With effective support these common problems can often be easily overcome (and often prevented with the right information antenatally), but breastfeeding is rarely a one approach suits all solution and so we are trained to help you piece together the different factors that can influence feeding, from your labour and delivery right through to what’s happening here and now. Using this alongside accurate information as to how breastfeeding works (despite the myths and old wives tales, it’s a sound scientific model) we can help turn early babyhood into the babymoon it should be. Bottle Feeding:
Whether you are expressing and feeding your baby breastmilk, want to restart breastfeeding after a break or have chosen to formula feed, we can also help with feeding problems experienced when using a bottle. Slow or extremely rapid feeding, leaking milk at the corners of the mouth, shallow attachment/bottle refusal, wind, colic, reflux and general feeding problems can all be experienced by bottle feeding babies too.

15/06/2026

Struggling to latch?

Sometimes it’s a missed cue. A newborn who’s been crying will flail, dysregulate, and lose all ability to coordinate a suck. Sometimes it’s something structural, a difficult birth, tension, oral restriction. Either way, the result is the same: a baby who can’t organise their suck well enough to latch onto anything.

Before your next attempt, flip your index finger pad-up and let baby suck on it for 30 to 60 seconds.
Baby can then organise the suck and calm before latching.

15/06/2026

🌟One last minute In-person clinic space available tomorrow

Is it colic? Reflux? Wind?

Most parents have been told one of these like it’s an answer. It isn’t. They’re descriptions of what your baby is doing, not why they’re doing it.

The cause is what matters. And that’s what we look for.

Can’t travel to us? Hybrid and distance assessments mean we can still work with you wherever you are.

Booking link in bio or DM me 🙌

08/06/2026

Did your baby really get an oral assessment?

This is what eight days on our faltering growth protocol looks like.We recently met a baby who had been weighed every ot...
07/06/2026

This is what eight days on our faltering growth protocol looks like.

We recently met a baby who had been weighed every other day for a whole month. Thirty days of appointments, of anxiety, of watching the scales. Of trying different positions, different timing of feeds - and nobody had established why. Nobody had looked at what the underlying problem actually was.

Because weight is an outcome. It’s not a diagnosis.

If a baby isn’t gaining weight, the question isn’t how often can we weigh them. The question is what’s stopping them from growing.

In this case, once we identified the feeding difficulties, addressed the milk transfer issues and put a clear plan in place, everything changed.

Eight days later, the difference speaks for itself.

Families don’t need endless monitoring without answers. They need someone willing to investigate the cause, connect the dots and treat the problem sitting underneath the numbers.

The scales can tell you that a baby isn’t growing.

They can’t tell you why

06/06/2026

Babies don’t latch by chance. They latch through a sequence of reflexes, each one triggered by the last.

When that sequence breaks down, babies get stuck in a loop - trying, failing, getting more stressed, trying again. And everyone assumes the baby just can’t latch.

The sequence starts with the skin around the mouth and chin - packed with receptors sensitive to touch. When the chin contacts the breast, baby should open ready for step 2.

If baby won’t latch or is struggling to latch well, we can help you work out why.

£100 a bottle.For something that isn’t licensed for babies. That the evidence says doesn’t work for most infant reflux. ...
04/06/2026

£100 a bottle.

For something that isn’t licensed for babies. That the evidence says doesn’t work for most infant reflux. That gets handed out at appointments that last six minutes.

But there’s no funding for an IBCLC. No funding for a feeding assessment. No funding to find out why the baby is in pain in the first place.

This isn’t a criticism of parents - you do what you’re told by people you trust. It’s a criticism of a system that medicalises a symptom while the cause goes completely unaddressed.

The bottle costs £100. The question nobody asked costs nothing.

When a mother cannot produce enough milk despite skilled support, appropriate management, and persistent effort, the sci...
03/06/2026

When a mother cannot produce enough milk despite skilled support, appropriate management, and persistent effort, the science becomes surprisingly thin.

Primary lactation failure remains one of the least explored areas of human physiology.

How many mothers have been told to just keep trying when the real answer may be: we simply don’t know enough yet?

If breastfeeding matters, understanding why it sometimes fails should matter too.

Research isn’t just about increasing breastfeeding rates.

It’s about understanding the women for whom breastfeeding doesn’t work as expected.

Save this if you think maternal health deserves the same scientific curiosity as everything else.

Reattachment is one of the most common reasons feeding stays difficult after a tongue tie release, and it’s also one of ...
29/05/2026

Reattachment is one of the most common reasons feeding stays difficult after a tongue tie release, and it’s also one of the most preventable.

What happens before and after the procedure can affect healing, feeding and long-term oral function, especially with posterior ties.

Wound care and oral exercises are not the same thing, and families are often given very little guidance on either.

DM AFTERCARE for the support guide I created for families without access to in-person help.

If you’re in Yorkshire, DM ASSESSMENT to find out how we can help.

28/05/2026

The procedure takes seconds on a wide-awake baby.

But you’ve been told it’s traumatic. That it carries risks. That it’ll be stressful for your baby. That you should think carefully.

Meanwhile the omeprazole prescription took about the same amount of time as that warning - and nobody mentioned that long-term PPI use in infants is linked to increased infection risk, gut microbiome disruption, nutrient malabsorption, and rebound hypersecretion when you try to stop.

No “think carefully” there.

Some parents are being offered general anaesthetic for their baby - a few months old - for something that in most cases takes seconds, with a baby who is awake and feeding minutes later.

The framing of which option is “risky” and which one is just handed over tells you everything about where the problem actually lies.

And if the treatment happened and feeding still isn’t right - that’s not a treatment failure, that’s a sign we haven’t found the whole picture yet.

There’s always a reason. Come and find it.

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23/10/2025

Signs a baby is feeding well from a bottle include a wide gape around the teat, the bottom lip rolled out and no clicking or leaking with a steady rhythm of sucking and swallowing.

If you’re not seeing these, or if feeds are messy and stressful, it is usually a sign the flow, latch or oral function needs checking rather than ‘just wind’.

If you are unsure, this is exactly what I support parents with every day. ♥️

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