Empowering Women with Midwife Suzi - Your Midwife
As an IBCLC with over 10 years experience, I support:
- Painful breastfeeding and nipple trauma support
- Low milk supply assessment and mixed feeding plans
- Babies who won’t latch or prefer the bottle
- Tongue tie and oral function concerns
- Slow weight gain and feeding uncertainty
- Expressing, pumping and milk storage guidance
- Return-to-work feeding and pumping plans
- Bottle refusal, flow preference and feeding transitions
- Individualised lactation consults with IBCLC support
I focus on protecting breastfeeding while meeting your baby’s needs, without pressure or judgment.
As an endorsed midwife, I also provide:
Pregnancy & Antenatal Care
I also provide antenatal care during pregnancy including:
- Pregnancy check-ups
- Birth preparation
- Monitoring and reassurance
- Continuity of care
- Education for labour, birth and newborn life
Postnatal Care
- Mother and baby postnatal checks
- Wound and caesarean recovery
- Fourth trimester support
- Baby weight checks
- Feeding guidance
- Emotional wellbeing support
Healing Therapies
- Acuneedling
- Low level laser therapy for healing, nipple trauma, mastitis and postpartum recovery
- (coming soon) - ultrasound for mastitis
This allows me to offer continuity of care, combining medical knowledge with real-world support.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor of Nursing
- Graduate Diploma in Midwifery
- Graduate Certificate in Prescribing and Diagnostics for Midwifery
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
- Over 20 years experience in nursing and midwifery
Additional training includes:
- Certified Hypnobirthing Instructor (Hypnobirthing Australia)
- Tongue tie assessment and infant feeding support
- Low Level Laser Therapy for breastfeeding and postnatal healing
- Certificate IV in Training and Assessment (Adult Educator)
- Infant Massage Instructor (IMIS)
- LARC (sexual Health)
- Acuneedling in midwifery care (accupressure & needling for pregnancy)