Lactation and Feeding Services
In Home, Office and Virtual Consults
We offer in home visits in Brooklyn & Queens. Our office is located inside Earth + Sky Healing Arts in Long Island City, and all of our services are available virtually.
We can help with:
Infant feeding best practices to meet your family’s goals
Breastfeeding support from the day you get home through weaning
Bottle feeding, including bottle refusal
Tongue tie evaluation and management
Care for plugged ducts, engorgement, soreness and/or nipple pain and damage
Increasing low milk supply
Managing oversupply and overactive letdown
Preparing to return to work
Flange fitting and pump education
Education on nutrition, herbs and supplements
Guidance and support for breastfeeding if you or your baby has a medical challenge
Prenatal education
Induced lactation and relactation
Chestfeeding/breastfeeding for trans parents
Fees and Policies
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Up-to-date fee information is available in the online booking widget.
We will provide you with a superbill coded under the lactating parent that includes the insurance information you provide to us. We cannot guarantee that your insurance will reimburse you under the Affordable Care Act.
If your policy has out-of-network benefits, we may be able to bill your insurance directly. We will verify your coverage and notify you. If we are unable to bill your insurance directly, you are responsible to pay the full self-pay amount within 2 hours of the start of the visit or your appointment will be canceled and your deposit will not be refunded.
If we are able to bill your insurance out-of-network, we will submit a claim that is more than our self pay fee for the type of visit you had. Once the claim has been processed, we will balance bill you for any amount not covered by your insurance up to our listed self pay fee for the type of visit you had. We will never charge you any amount that would cause us to collect more than our stated self pay fee from you and your insurance combined.
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We are in-network with Aetna, Anthem/BCBS, and United Healthcare.
If you would like a home visit, you will pay a convenience fee of $75 for each visit. The home visit convenience fee is non-refundable if you cancel with less than 24 hours' notice.
You will pay a one-time deposit of $25 if your first visit with us is in our office or virtual. This can be applied to messaging support or any potential cost-sharing.
If you and your baby and/or the baby's other parent have different insurance coverage
You will provide City Lactation with complete information on all primary and secondary insurance coverage you and your baby have or may potentially have. This includes the insurance information for the baby's other parent. You and your baby do NOT need to be on the same insurance for services to be rendered.
Complete payment policies will be provided on booking.
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Sliding scale may be available if you or your partner(s) meet one of these qualifications: on WIC, on Medicaid, DOE teacher, or unemployed. Please notify us if any of these apply and we will make arrangements.
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Annie: Sunnyside, Woodside, Astoria, Long Island City, Greenpoint, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Rego Park, Forest Hills, Maspeth
Kara: Bushwick, Ridgewood, Bed Stuy, Crown Heights, Astoria, Woodside, Maspeth, Middle Village, Sunnyside, Long Island City, Greenpoint, and Williamsburg
Learn more about our services
Home Visits
Working with us means working on your individual goals, whatever those may be. You’ll receive a detailed care plan designed to help you and your baby work together towards the outcome you envision for your new family. Includes pre- and post-feed weights to check your their milk transfer, full oral examination, evaluation of your positioning and the latch, counseling on infant development, and specialist referrals.
We keep up-to-date on CDC guidelines and maintain high clinical standards for safety, including but not limited to the use of personal protective equipment, distancing, and sanitization.
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.
Prenatal & Induced Lactation Consults
Available virtually and in our office. We help you prepare for breastfeeding/chestfeeding so that you can be ready when your baby arrives. If you’re inducing lactation for a baby you’re not carrying, we can help with that, too!
Virtual Consults
There is so much we can accomplish virtually! Through conversation and using videos you provide to me, we work collaboratively with you to address your lactation and infant feeding challenges.
We’ve found that our clients who see us for 2 or more visits have optimal outcomes, as many issues cannot be resolved without tincture of time to see how your situation develops and changes as you work through the care plan at home.
Virtual consults are perfect for prenatals and flange fittings.
Prenatal
Availabe virtually and in person
Lactation
Breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and pumping—we have the skills to support you and your baby or babies! We can troubleshoot all kinds of issues including mastitis, tongue tie, low supply, oversupply, and latch problems, as well as work with medically complex situations.
Back to Work
Introducing a bottle, maintaining milk supply, and working with your caregivers to provide your baby with your milk—we’ll identify your specific goals and needs and help you make them happen.
Weaning
From the breast, from the chest, or from the pump, we can help you close out your infant feeding journey safely and respectfully.