What Prenatal Classes Don’t Teach About Lactation
A four week live prenatal feeding series preparing you for how feeding actually works during the 4th trimester so that you get the best start to your breastfeeding journey.
This is not your typical breastfeeding class.
Most prenatal classes teach anatomy and positioning. You might get a sprinkling of info about pumping, feeding cues, and common problems.
Parents leave these classes feeling confident, but when baby arrives, the overwhelm sets in.
They do not prepare you for how the birth process, stress, hospital routines, and conflicting advice affect how your feeding journey begins (and continues!).
This series exists to change that.
You learn how to recognize problems early, understand what is normal, and respond calmly instead of feeling anxiety.
Who is this prenatal lactation series for?
What Prenatal Classes Don’t Teach About Lactation is a great fit for you if you’re:
Pregnant and planning to breastfeed or combo feed
Wanting realistic preparation, not ideal scenarios
Interested in prevention, not crisis management
Looking for clear guidance before problems arise in a group environment
What Prenatal Classes Don’t Teach About Lactation is not for you if:
You have an urgent feeding concern (reach out me or another medical provider for assistance)
You’re looking for on one medical assessment and management
You’re looking for a replacement for individualized lactation care
By the end of the series, you will:
Understand how stress, trauma, and birth experiences affect feeding
Know how routine hospital practices influence early milk production
Recognize what normal feeding looks like in the early weeks
Use hand expression and pumping strategically, not reactively
Navigate conflicting advice online or from well meaning friends/family with discernment
Line up support before feeding becomes a crisis
The goal of What Prenatal Classes Don’t Teach About Lactation is for you to walk away feeling empowered, informed, and prepared for whatever feeding challenges arise so that your journey goes how you want it to.
Here’s what you can expect to learn inside of What Prenatal Classes Don’t Teach About Lactation
Four live weekly Zoom sessions
Each session is 60 minutes
Engaging conversation with time for Q & A at the end
Replay access included
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You’ll also receive a free 3 month subscription to Droplet after it launches when you enroll in this series so that you can continue to educate yourself AND receive support when this series ends. Click here to learn more
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Week 1 focuses on understanding how birth experiences, stress, and prior trauma influence early milk production and feeding. Stress management techniques will also be introduced.
The goals of this week are to become aware of our sources of stress, how our bodies respond to stress, and how this impacts our body’s ability to nourish another human life.
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Week 2 breaks down how routine hospital practices affect early milk production and feeding. We cover common interventions, where provider knowledge often stops, and how to prepare for gaps in lactation support. Its a breakdown of the system you’ll likely encounter when giving birth.
The goals for this week are learning to anticipate common challenges in the healthcare setting, understand what is normal vs. what’s concerning, and advocate for yourself without fear.
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Week 3 focuses on milk protection strategies if latching becomes challenging or overwhelming including hand expression, pumping (how, when and why), navigating the maze of baby “essentials”, and reinforcing the fundamentals of creating a full milk supply. A full skills building system, if you will.
The goals for this week are to feel confident in your ability to remove milk from your breasts regardless of latch, avoid common pumping mistakes, and become responsive instead of reactive.
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Week 4 brings everything together. We cover navigating family advice and online noise, basic discernment skills, baby wearing, biological nurturing, and safe sleep concepts tied to feeding. We also focus on organizing support and understanding the limits of our stamina postpartum.
The goals for this week are to reduce outside noise that erodes our intuition, knowing who to call and when for support, and creating sustainability for our feeding journey.
Here’s the weekly breakdown…
Understanding your body. Learning to navigate systems and building skills. Protecting your journey and building sustainability. Each week prepares you for the next so you feel informed, not overwhelmed.
This is unlike any other prenatal lactation course out there!
Hello, I’m Tiffany!
I’m a Registered Nurse (RN) and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) from Orange County, California. I have worked for a decade supporting families in Maternal-Child Health, first in the NICU, and later on the Postpartum unit as an IBCLC. I realized very quickly the limitations I had to be able to work within my scope within a healthcare system, so I launched my private practice in 2024.
What became very apparent to me was that the majority of the calls I was getting were from families in crisis trying to navigate their feeding journeys. As I got to know each family and provided education to them, I realized that the majority of these issues they were facing could have been prevented with more comprehensive education, preparation and early support. It was not their fault, many of them took the prenatal class offered by their hospital system, but the reality is one class is not enough. These classes don’t go in depth enough about the things that matter, the things that will impact families beyond their hospital stay or home birth experience.
Working in the inpatient and outpatient settings has given me keen insight into how hospital workflows, policy limits, and provider training impact lactation outcomes. Families are left feeling like a failure by a system not built to support them. This series reflects what parents tell me they wish they had known sooner. It focuses on preparation, decision making, and early support. The goal is to build your confidence before birth so that you don’t end up in crisis postpartum. I created this class to give you clear information, practical skills, and context most prenatal education leaves out.
Ready to Join?
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
If you want clearer expectations, earlier action, and less stress around feeding, this series was built for you.
Reserve your spot below.
