Arkansas Lactation Services

Arkansas Lactation Services Lactation support for mom & baby in the comfort of your home or at our offices | serving NWA & beyond

Calling all mamas with late fall due dates, this one’s for you 🤍Let’s help you walk into your breastfeeding journey feel...
09/04/2026

Calling all mamas with late fall due dates, this one’s for you 🤍

Let’s help you walk into your breastfeeding journey feeling informed, confident, and supported from day one.

Our Prenatal Breastfeeding Group Classes cover everything from preparing for delivery to what those first hours and days postpartum can really look like. We’ll talk through the golden hour and skin-to-skin, hand expression, latching and positioning, how to support milk supply early on, and so much more. Most importantly, we want you to feel empowered to advocate for yourself and your baby. These classes give you space to ask questions, learn the basics, and feel prepared before you bring your little one home.

👉🏽 This class is $5, spots fill quickly, so don’t wait.
👉🏽 September 14th | 6:00–7:15 PM
👉🏽 Held at our Bentonville location: 915 NW 7th Street, Bentonville, AR
👉🏽 Link in bio or visit our website to sign up

Birth control and milk supply is something we end up talking about a lot in visits, so here's the honest rundown. Save t...
09/02/2026

Birth control and milk supply is something we end up talking about a lot in visits, so here's the honest rundown. Save this for later!

it really does depend on the mom. for a lot of moms, birth control doesn't touch their supply at all. for others, especially if things were already a little shaky or there's something like pcos or thyroid in the mix, it can be part of why supply dips. here's the why behind it: making milk leans on two hormones, prolactin (the one that tells your body to make milk) and oxytocin (the one that lets it down). the progestins in a lot of birth control can nudge those signals and quiet them down a bit. for plenty of moms that's no big deal, but if your supply was already working hard, it can be the thing that tips it. it feels a little unfair that so many moms get told flat out "it won't affect your supply," like it's a guarantee. for some of you it just isn't true!

and no, we're not sitting here telling you to skip birth control. it matters, and you deserve options that actually work for your life. we just want you to know the full story going in.

if your supply dropped after somebody told you it wouldn't, please don't carry that as your fault. come find us. that's what we're here for 💛

** we also have a more in depth highlight about birth control and breastfeeding on our profile.

getting out the door with a new baby is its own kind of workout 😅the feeding, the diaper change, etc. some days it just ...
08/26/2026

getting out the door with a new baby is its own kind of workout 😅the feeding, the diaper change, etc. some days it just doesn’t happen, and that’s okay. so we come to you!

home visits mean you stay on your own couch, in your own space, with your own coffee getting cold next to you, while we work through the latch, the weights, the feeds, whatever’s on your mind. nothing to pack up & waiting room.

and if getting out feels good some days, we’ve got three clinic spots now too. fayetteville, bentonville, and our newest one in alma inside rooted wellness. wherever you feel most like yourself, that’s where we’ll meet you. 🤍

08/22/2026

Tossing leftover milk stings every single time. You worked for that! New research is starting to suggest we may be throwing away more than we need to. In a recent preprint, leftover milk from 44 healthy full term babies showed no meaningful bacterial growth through 8 hours, with real growth only at the 24 hour mark at room temp.

It’s early, it isn’t peer reviewed, and it doesn’t apply to premature or medically fragile babies. Still, it’s a hopeful bit of research, and it may mean a lot of families have been wasting more milk than they ever needed to.

Article is linked in the comments!

Calling all mamas with fall due dates, this one’s for you 🤍Let’s help you walk into your breastfeeding journey feeling i...
08/15/2026

Calling all mamas with fall due dates, this one’s for you 🤍

Let’s help you walk into your breastfeeding journey feeling informed, confident, and supported from day one.

Our Prenatal Breastfeeding Group Classes cover everything from preparing for delivery to what those first hours and days postpartum can really look like. We’ll talk through the golden hour and skin-to-skin, hand expression, latching and positioning, how to support milk supply early on, and so much more. Most importantly, we want you to feel empowered to advocate for yourself and your baby. These classes give you space to ask questions, learn the basics, and feel prepared before you bring your little one home.

👉🏽 This class is $5, spots fill quickly, so don’t wait.
👉🏽 August 24th | 6:00–7:15 PM
👉🏽 Held at our Bentonville location: 915 NW 7th Street, Bentonville, AR
👉🏽 Link in bio or visit our website to sign up

we spent world breastfeeding week talking about a gap in postpartum care, and today we wanted to let the moms who walked...
08/08/2026

we spent world breastfeeding week talking about a gap in postpartum care, and today we wanted to let the moms who walked through it do the talking instead.

every slide is a different mom, in her own words, pulled straight from our google reviews. different babies, different hard weeks, different feeding journeys. what they share is the part that will never fail to bless us. somebody sat down with them, and it changed something

one of them wrote that we are clearly moms filling a gap for other moms. we have thought about that line all week. the gap is real, and closing it is not complicated. it just takes someone showing up

world breastfeeding week ends today, but the work does not. thank you to every mom who let us be part of her hardest week 🤍

almost every mom we meet thinks she is the only one struggling. she says it quietly, like she is admitting something she...
08/05/2026

almost every mom we meet thinks she is the only one struggling. she says it quietly, like she is admitting something she should be embarrassed about.

here is what the research actually shows. a 2013 study published in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, followed 532 first-time moms through their early postpartum weeks. 92% of them reported a breastfeeding concern by day three. pain, latch trouble, worry about milk supply, etc. the moms who had those concerns at day three were nine times more likely to stop breastfeeding by two months than the moms who did not.

it is world breastfeeding week, and this is what we want to talk about. not because it is discouraging, but because it is one of the most fixable problems in postpartum care. these concerns respond to skilled support. a shallow latch, supply worries, tension in a little body making feeding harder than it needs to be. when someone sits down, actually watches a feed, and listens to the person who knows that baby best, the whole trajectory can change.

the hard part is that this kind of help is not free, and for a lot of families it is out of reach in the exact week they need it most. we do everything we can to close that distance. we bill most major insurances, we take HSA and FSA, we offer payment plans and virtual visits, and we set aside pro bono visits every year for families who fall outside all of it. postpartum is not the season to ask someone to figure out how to stretch a budget.

so this is how we are choosing to celebrate this week. not with a post about how beautiful breastfeeding is, though it is (🫶), but by naming a gap we watch moms fall through every single month, and reminding you that it does not have to stay that way.

and if you are the mom in that first week right now, reading this at 2am, please reach out. we come to you!

it's world breastfeeding week, and I keep thinking about the moms I sat with this year instead of anything I could teach...
08/01/2026

it's world breastfeeding week, and I keep thinking about the moms I sat with this year instead of anything I could teach you about latch or supply.

when I walk into a home, the baby is usually not the one who needs the most care. it is the mom on the couch who has not slept, who has been reading everything she can find at 2am, who is quietly wondering if she is the only one finding this so hard. she is not. I have been doing this for over eight years and I have never once met a mom who was failing. I have met a lot of moms who just needed someone to sit down beside them, listen, and remind them it will be ok.

that is really all arkansas lactation is. we come to you, we figure it out together, and we support whatever feeding ends up looking like for your family. breastfeeding, pumping, formula, all of it. your goals are the only goals that matter here.

it is also why we set aside pro bono visits every year, because we never want cost to be the reason a mom sits in that hard moment alone.

so this week we are not talking about milk. we are talking about the moms doing the work, and the difference it makes when someone shows up for them. happy world breastfeeding week! this is why we do it. 🤍

- Katie Atkins

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1845 Main Drive, Suite B
Fayetteville, AR
72704

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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