Welcome to City Lactation!
We are team of International Board Certified Lactation Consultants (IBCLC) offering home, office, and virtual visits based in New York City, New York.
Whether you’re navigating latch challenges, supply concerns, pumping support, or anything else related to lactation or infant feeding, we’re here to help you create a plan that works for you and your baby.
Book online today—we’re in-network with Aetna, CIGNA, United Healthcare & Anthem BCBS!
We look forward to supporting you!
Breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and infant feeding support in Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau County
Home Visits
Available in parts of Queens, Brooklyn, and Nassau County. We bring a scale for weighted feeds and will support you and your family to meet your individual goals.
Office Visits
Located inside Earth + Sky Healing Arts in Long Island City, our office has everything you need to feel comfortable and relaxed while working on breastfeeding with us. We have a scale for weighted feeds, a changing table, and room for you and your support person.
Virtual Consults
When in person isn’t an option, we can connect using our HIPAA compliant platform and work together on your goals.
Happy Clients Say…
Annie is kind, compassionate, experienced, and very thorough. As a first-time mom whose baby was in the NICU I felt very overwhelmed with feeding my baby. I had always envisioned having a strong breast feeding relationship with my baby but he would not latch. I was not producing enough milk and had to supplement with formula. Annie did not make me feel guilty for supplementing with formula and taught me ways to increase my breast milk supply. She also introduced several methods to make latching easier for my baby. She also identified a tongue tie that my pediatrician did not find as my baby was gaining weight on his own. She made a recommendation for an excellent surgeon and speech pathologist. I HIGHLY recommend Annie’s expertise to a mom looking for lactation support. Annie is an expert in her field and will make you feel comfortable.
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Tricia
“Kara is one of a kind. She has a kind and peaceful heart. She takes her time and is able to feel the energy in the room. Her knowledge in lactation is fantastic. She never left a question unanswered.”
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Katherine
“Kara was a crucial part of our breastfeeding journey. With her guidance and care we were able to meet our goals and maintain our sanity! My only regret is not engaging with Kara our first week at home.”
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Carmel
We are so grateful for the experience of working with Kara! She is incredibly knowledgeable, thoughtful, and above all affirming. As a first time mom, I definitely lacked confidence as I started breastfeeding — but Kara not only gave me excellent information, she gave me the self-assurance I needed through her supportive coaching and positive support. She offered excellent resources, recommendations, and a high quality network of NYC professionals to help with our son’s tongue tie. With her help, I feel so much more prepared to continue this breastfeeding journey, I can’t recommend her highly enough!
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Hal
“Kara is the best of the best. Kara brings extensive knowledge and skill along with acute awareness and empathy. She listens and connects to your needs- which is vital given how emotional and vulnerable I have been when I needed her support. I wish I could work with her more, but she helped me work through my issues pretty quickly and easily. I wish more of my healthcare professionals were like her.”
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Leia
“Annie was a godsend right on time. She listened, affirmed, and provided options much like, or even better than, a therapist. We were provided with several tools, tips, resources, and referrals to help both me and my daughter in the breastfeeding journey. I didn’t know that this journey would be a physical one, as well as a mental and emotional one, and I feel more confident and prepared to support myself and my little one.”
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Leconte
Annie has been a tremendous help to our growing family. We’re so grateful for her. Annie is full of knowledge and helpful, giving us an abundance of tools, advice, and guidance we needed to navigate through the first few months with our newborn. She helped put all our worries and concerns at ease. Having Annie by our side gave us the confidence to make better informed decisions on how we wanted to raise and nurture our newborn baby. Thank you!
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Eileen
“Loved working with Annie! She is incredibly knowledgeable and took time to explain the background/science behind the challenges we were having, instead of just jumping to recommended solutions. Her care plans were extremely detailed and I found the resources she shared very helpful. I also really appreciated that she met me where I was in the breastfeeding journey – exclusive breastfeeding wasn’t working for our family, so she helped me figure out how to get the most out of breastfeeding and formula in combination (not the kind of empathy I experienced with other lactation consultants).”
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M
“It was such a pleasure working with Annie. She has a calm and soothing presence to her and she is an incredibly knowledgeable professional. I was blown away by how helpful it was to meet and chat with her. Annie is an excellent and openminded listener; during our meetings she carefully listened to my experiences and questions and was able to provide me with a variety of helpful tips, advice, recommendations and demonstrations. Annie is truly wonderful to work with and I highly recommend her.”
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Julie
About City Lactation
City Lactation is inclusive and anti-racist. We value privacy and informed consent. We believe that babies are people. We affirm that pumping IS breastfeeding. We actively pursue continuing education in clinical skills, ethics, trauma informed care, cultural humility, and equity.
