Postnatal

lactation consultant

Breastfeeding is a beautiful and special moment for many mothers, but sometimes they experience problems with breastfeeding. In such cases we can offer extra help in the form of a lactation consult.

Two of our midwives, Carolien and Burny, are IBCLC certified lactation consultants and can help you with breastfeeding questions and concerns. With their additional knowledge and experience, nutritional problems can be solved and uncertainties taken away. This allows you to fully enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding.

Our lactation consultants can advise you on:

Preparing for Breastfeeding in Pregnancy
Problems with latching on
Pumping
Pain or discomfort while feeding (thrush, fissures, etc.)
breast inflammation
Asses if a tongue tie is too short and act if necessary
Building off breastfeeding

Some health insurers reimburse a lactation consultation from the supplementary package. View the policy conditions to check whether a consultation is reimbursed.

If you need a lactation consultation during or after pregnancy, please contact us.

OUR OBSTETRIC CARE

lactation consultant

Follow-up

maternity checks

maternity care

Follow-up

After about six weeks you will come to us for a follow-up check. Together we look back on the period of your pregnancy, delivery and maternity period. What is it like to be a parent and do you have any questions for us? It is nice to talk about this period together.

During the follow-up, we will discuss how you have experienced the care in recent months. How do you look back on pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum? And how are you doing as a new family? How did the physical and mental recovery go? If you have any questions yourself, there is of course also room for that.

Other topics we can discuss are your menstrual cycle, contraception, training the pelvic floor muscles, sports, (breast) nutrition and advice for a possible next pregnancy and delivery.

There is also an opportunity to measure your blood pressure one more time or to determine the iron level. If you have had stitches after the delivery, we can look at the recovery of the wound during the follow-up check if desired.

A check of the abdominal muscles is also possible. During pregnancy, the abdominal muscles are pushed aside to make more room for the growth of the uterus. After childbirth, these muscles slowly come together again. Sometimes the abdominal muscles continue to give way, which we call diastasis. We can check if you have a diastasis. If not, you can also start training the abs again.

OUR OBSTETRIC CARE

lactation consultant

Follow-up

maternity checks

maternity care

maternity checks

We coordinate the care and contact moments together so that you can make optimal use of our knowledge, but also take the rest that is so important during this period.

Checks during the maternity week

During your maternity week, the first week after the birth of your baby, we will visit you at home.

We’ll see how you and your baby are doing. We discuss the delivery, how you feel physically and emotionally and the checks that the maternity nurse has done. The maternity nurse is present with you throughout the week for support and can offer help with the care of yourself and your baby. She can support you with feeding your baby.

Are you breastfeeding and would you like extra help? Carolien and Burny are lactation consultants and are happy to assist you in this.

After about a week we visit you for the last time at home. After this, the care is transferred to the general practitioner and the consultatiebureau (JGZ).

They will contact you for the first appointment.

About 6 weeks after your delivery, you will visit us again for a follow-up/check-up.

OUR OBSTETRIC CARE

lactation consultant

Follow-up

maternity checks

maternity care

Maternity care is unique in the world. Apart from the Netherlands, there is no other country in the world where women receive care at home from a nurse who supports them in the first week after birth.

During your maternity period you need someone who understands you, takes away your doubts and gives you confidence during the first week after birth. This is what a maternity nurse (kraamzorg) does.

During the maternity period she will teach you more and more, so that at the end of the maternity week you will be confident in your new role as a parent.

A maternity nurse stays about 8 days after the birth.

Aanvang has been working intensively with the maternity nurses of de Waarden for more than 14 years. We know each other because of this long-term and pleasant cooperation. We think that will only improve the care for your family.

Maternity care is covered by basic insurance in the Netherlands. This means that all costs are reimbursed by your health insurer, except for the statutory personal contribution.

Finally and very important; Sign up before 16 weeks of pregnancy!

https://www.kraamzorgdewaarden.nl