Would you like to have a lactation consultant that you can call, text, email, or videochat when you need them?

Connect with Baby Café Bakersfield is a totally free service that gives you the flexibility of connecting with a lactation care provider who can communicate with you at your convenience for things like:

• prenatal (before the baby is born) breastfeeding education

• answers to your questions or concerns about how breastfeeding will go this time if you’ve had babies and breastfeeding problems before

• strategies and ideas if you run into any problems in the hospital after your baby is born

• help with everything from latching to milk production to pumping to starting solids or weaning or tandem nursing

  Help throughout the whole spectrum of lactation is at your fingertips with Connect with Baby Café Bakersfield!

• Just fill out the form below to Connect with a lactation care provider. We’ll also send some useful information and links to help you use the internet wisely to find information about lactation.

An IBCLC© is available at Baby Café to help you

IBCLCs are the clinical experts in lactation care and are able to provide the highest level of breastfeeding support for all breastfeeding problems and challenges. IBCLCs are trained in all safe infant feeding practices (including bottle feeding and alternatives to direct breastfeeding), normal infant development, starting solids/complementary foods, management of lactation for parents of preterm infants, safe sleep practices which support normal breastfeeding, and more.

IBCLCs are qualified to provide clinical lactation care in all breastfeeding situations, including tongue, lip tie, preterm babies, maternal or infant illness or medical conditions, low milk production, pumping problems, returning to school or employment outside the home requiring separation of parent and baby, breast refusal, weaning, starting solids, bottle feeding, and more!