Paola Vallarino
Paola Vallarino, IEP, IBCLC, CBS
* Internationally Educated Physician
* International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
* Certified Breastfeeding Specialist
* Certified Pediatric Sleep Specialist
* Child Nutrition Diploma
Paola is a lactation consultant with over 10 years of medical background and over 2000 hours of clinical experience helping families to have a happy breastfeeding journey.
She is an Internationally Educated Physician, a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, the gold standard certification for health professionals working with breastfeeding families. She’s always updating her knowledge with continuing education to give families the best care.
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Paola holds a diploma in Child Nutrition and provides families with advice on how to feed their babies when starting solids or supplementing. She's also a Certified Pediatric Sleep Specialist and help families and babies sleep better with an holistic approach focused in attachment and well-being.
She specializes in Tethered Oral Tissues (tongue and lip ties) and in the last years she has worked with several families with tongue-tied babies, along with pediatric dentists and pediatricians, including Dr. Jack Newman in the International Breastfeeding Center in Toronto. She also specializes in Breastfeeding Multiples and has plenty of experience working with mothers in their Relactation journey and with Low Milk Supply.
As a mother herself, she understands the difficulties that women can face when feeding their babies, and that’s why her mission is to support, educate and empower mamas with evidence based information so that they can feel confident and give their babies the best start.
For Paola, every family is special, and giving them judgement-free support by working on their unique feeding goals is her number one priority.
Services & prices
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In this postnatal consultation we can work on your short and long-term feeding goals, difficulties that arise and doubts you may have after having your baby. Whether you're struggling with breastfeeding or bottle-feeding, you need to increase your milk supply, you're going back to work and want to start pumping, or you don't know when and how to start weaning your child, we're here for you! We will make a plan that works for you and your family! We’ll gather the medical history before our online meeting, we’ll e-meet in a 60 min video call that may include observation of latch, working on latching technique, assessing a pumping session and your flange size, working on your pumping technique, and showing you how to use feeding devices such as bottles, lactation aids and nipple shields. We’ll talk about your lactation care plan and answer any questions you may have. You’ll receive written recommendations via email. In some situations, more than one consultation will be necessary. If another consultation is needed, we will let you know after our initial assessment..
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During the initial appointment, our lactation consultant will cover all the important aspects to help you get started or continue breastfeeding, including understanding your baby’s hunger cues, comfortable positioning, improving latch, determining milk flow and when baby is full. Our lactation consultants can help with comfortable position and latching, sore nipples and/or breast pain, slow weight gain, blocked ducts/mastitis, low/decreased milk supply, oversupply, difficulty handling fast flow, understanding baby’s fussiness, and crying, reflux and colic symptoms, falling asleep at the breast and interpreting baby’s behavior. Initial appointments are booked for 60-75 minutes
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Prenatal consults are useful in getting ready to breastfeed and to learn about antenatal colostrum expression.
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