Before Your Baby Is Born
- Setting Up for Success: Ten Tips to Prepare for Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding: 15 Ways New Dads can Help
- What to Bring with you to the Hospital
- What is Colostrum?
- Breastfeeding: The First Few Hours
- Breastfeeding: The First Three Days
- How your breasts will change during pregnancy and nursing
- Breastfeeding: What is a Latch?
- Breastfeeding: How to Position your Baby
- Breastfeeding: How to Hold your Breast
- Breastfeeding: How to Position Yourself
- Breastfeeding Holds: Cross-Cradle, Football Hold, Cradle, Side-Lying
- Breastfeeding: How to Know When Baby is Hungry (Rooting Reflex)
The First Six Weeks
- Breastfeeding: The First Six Weeks
- Breastfeeding and Nutrition: What should I eat while breastfeeding?
- Breastfeeding: Where to Find Support
- Breastfeeding: How to Latch
- Breastfeeding: What a Good Latch Feels Like
- Breastfeeding: How to Know if you Have a Good Deep Latch
- Care Plan: What to do if Your Baby Won’t Latch
- Care Plan: How to Use a Nipple Shield
- Breastfeeding: How Your Baby Gets the Milk Out of Your Breast
- Breastfeeding: How Often do I Breastfeed?
- Breastfeeding: How to Learn Baby's Feeding Cues
- Breastfeeding: How Long Should a Feeding Take?
- Care Plan: What if Early Breastfeeding is Not Going Perfectly?
- Breastfeeding: How do I Know Baby is Getting Enough at Each Feeding?
- Breastfeeding: How to Breastfeed a Sleepy Baby
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough at Each Feeding
- Breastfeeding: Waking Your Baby to Eat: When do I Stop?
- Breastfeeding: How to Know Baby is Getting Enough Overall - Diapers
- Breastfeeding: How to Know Baby is Getting Enough Overall - Weight Gain
- Breastfeeding: How to Know Baby is Getting Enough Overall - Infant Behavior
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough Overall
- Care Plan: Engorgement
- Care Plan: Sore Nipples
Finding Your Breastfeeding Rhythm
- Care Plan: How to Increase Your Milk Supply
- Increasing Your Milk Supply: What to Expect When Following the Care Plan
- Increasing Your Milk Supply: Why the Care Plan Will Work
- Effective Feeding: What is it?
- Effective Feeding: How to Identify Effective Feeding
- Effective Feeding: The Difference Between a Suck and a Swallow
- Effective Feeding: How to Ensure Effective Feeding
- Breastfeeding: Milk Flow - The Difference Between Breast and Bottle
- Breastfeeding: How Milk Supply Affects Your Flow Rate
- Care Plan: How to Fix Your Milk Flow and Increase Your Milk Supply
- Breastfeeding: Why Your Baby May Not Be Getting Enough
- Breastfeeding: What Am I Supplementing With?
- Plugged Ducts
- Mastitis
- Demystifying Cluster Feeding: What’s Normal...What’s Not
Common Challenges
- Getting Breastfeeding Support from Mom
- Care Plan: How to Increase Your Milk Supply
- Care Plan: What to do if Your Baby Won’t Latch
- Care Plan: Engorgement
- Care Plan: Sore Nipples
- Care Plan: Plugged Ducts
- Care Plan: Mastitis
- Care Plan: Yeast
- Care Plan: What if Early Breastfeeding is Not Going Perfectly?
- Care Plan: How to Use a Nipple Shield
- What to Expect When Following the Care Plan to Increase Supply
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough at Each Feeding
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough Overall
- Why Your Baby May Not Be Getting Enough at the Breast
Breastfeeding and the Working Mom
The Man Behind The Milk
Resource Library
Our Experts
Heather Kelly
Heather is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Practicing since 2001, in the past Heather had been affiliated with Elizabeth Seton Childbearing Center in New York City and currently is a member of the Manhattan Lactation Group, a private practice group of four consultants in New York City. She also serves as a lactation consultant for Realbirth, NYC's premier pre and post-natal education center.
Often consulted by the media to speak on a variety of breastfeeding topics, Heather has appeared on the Today Show, "Healthy New York" and AlphaMom TV. She is the featured lactation consultant on the video "Breastfeeding with Bravado", and has a chapter in "The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years: 100 Things Every Parent Should Know,” by Samantha Ettus.
Additionally, she runs a weekly support group for breastfeeding mothers in NYC and is a featured speaker for expectant groups throughout the city, including Big City Moms and Baby Bites.
Heather is the mother of four children, three boys and a girl, and resides in NYC.
