Coming Soon! Our Annex Location
Exciting things are happening at Milk & Honey! We will soon be seeing families at our Annex location as well at 1647 N.Alvernon Way, Suite #1 Tucson, AZ 85712.
OUR SERVICES
Our mission is to foster breastfeeding and infant feeding confidence and success through compassionate individualized consultations using a multi-disciplinary approach. Milk and Honey brings together unique and overlapping skill sets to provide families with optimal breastfeeding support and education, while nurturing the lactating parent, baby and family as a whole. We strive to provide comprehensive and individualized care to all types of families.
We specialize in more complex breastfeeding/feeding challenges related to:
Low milk supply (hypolactation)
Oversupply (hyperlactation)
Mastitis/Recurrent "plugged ducts”
Persistent nipple pain and damage
Induced lactation/relactation
Persistent latch and efficiency concerns
Oral ties
Infants with weight gain concerns
Infants with medical complexities
Prematurity
Transitioning to solids
Weaning from tube feedings
Our Specialists include providers with expertise in:
Lactation
Infant Feeding and Swallowing
Nutrition
Breastfeeding Medicine
Therapeutic Breast Ultrasound
Perinatal Mental Health
Occupational and Speech Therapy
Infant Development
Torticollis
Maternal Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
Why is Milk and Honey considered Specialized?
Unlike traditional lactation support, we use an integrative and multi-disciplinary approach to treat infants and their families struggling to feed and/or grow well. We combine our varied skill sets to empower parents while meeting the individual needs of our families so they can meet their breastfeeding and feeding goals.
Our providers include Speech Pathologists, RNs, IBCLCs, Midwives, Breastfeeding Medicine Specialists and Occupational Therapists to provide support to families struggling with more complex feeding challenges, with an emphasis on breastfeeding and lactation. We are also excited to announce that Siri Garfinkel, an OT who specializes in Pelvic Floor health and myofascial release has joined our Milk & Honey family!
Infant challenges may include: latch issues, weak or discoordinated suck, swallowing issues (i.e. dysphagia), poor “milk transfer” breast or bottle aversion, oral aversion, infant weight gain concerns, "failure to thrive”, tube feeding, and difficulty transitioning to solids.
These challenges are
often secondary to underlying infant medical diagnoses, which could include: prematurity, prolonged NICU stay, oral ties, cleft lip/palate, torticollis, hypotonia, cardiac involvement or other medical conditions that may impact feeding. Sometimes babies just got off to a rough start! Our feeding team, which includes our SLPs, OTs, and IBCLCs, can help with these underlying diagnoses to help your baby thrive, while helping to reduce stress around feeding.
Challenges may also be secondary to various maternal factors such as a low milk supply, delayed “lactogenesis", insufficient glandular tissue, “plugged ducts" or mastitis. This can often be treated with non-invasive interventions, including Therapeutic Breast Ultrasound. Our midwives are also able to treat maternal mental health concerns, such as postpartum depression and anxiety.
