A Breastfeeding Counselor assists women who are wanting to breastfeed. You may be working with a mother in late pregnancy to identify potential problems, with women who have newborns and are experiencing difficulties, or with women with older babies or children.

A Breastfeeding Counselor will encounter a range of problems and challenges that may include:

• women with positioning problems, pain on breastfeeding or some of the common breastfeeding problems such as thrush, engorgement and mastitis

• women who are wanting to wean their babies from breastfeeding to other alternatives

• women who want to feed an adopted baby

• women who are trying to increase their milk supply

• women who wish to continue breastfeeding when they are pregnant with another child

There are a whole host of situations that a Breastfeeding Counselor will come across. As a Childbirth International Breastfeeding Counselor you will gain knowledge and skills in helping women through these problems, and also accumulate a comprehensive list of resources for helping parents when their problems are more complicated than you can assist with.

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