Interview with a Lactation Consultant

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For patients, breastfeeding can be an emotional topic.

It’s often framed as a natural skill that breastfeeding parents and babies somehow magically know how to do after birth — but honestly, that’s not always the case.

While some breastfeeding parents — and babies — pick up this skill quickly, it isn’t always easy. Sometimes, support is needed to ensure breastfeeding works for both of them.

This leads us to the question: As a primary care nurse practitioner, what knowledge and resources do you need to support families choosing to breastfeed?

Lactation Consultants and Primary Care Nurse Practitioners

August is Breastfeeding Awareness Month. This week, we're talking with Joanna Kreyling, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), pediatric nurse practitioner, and clinical director at Nest Collaborative. In our interview, we explore:

  • Who lactation consultants are and how they help families

  • When you might want to refer your patients to them

  • And some important pearls and pitfalls to watch out for

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    well hey there it's liz rohr from real

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    save you time frustration and help you

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    learn faster so you can take the best

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    care of your patients it is

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    breastfeeding awareness month in august

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    2021 at the time of this recording and

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    i'm talking today with a lactation

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    consultant joanna crayling she is also a

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    pediatric nurse practitioner and i

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    brought her on the channel for an

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    interview to ask her about

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    what lactation consultants are what they

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    can help with when you would want to

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    consult with them or refer your patients

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    to them and lots of pearls and pitfalls

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    to keep in mind when it comes to

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    breastfeeding and supporting your

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    patients both the parent that is

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    breastfeeding and the little kiddo that

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    they are caring for so i really hope you

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    enjoy this interview lots of pearls of

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    practice and resources and takeaways

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    without further ado i'm going to share

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    my interview with you all right well

    What are lactation consultants

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    welcome thank you so much for being here

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    can you start by introducing yourself

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    yeah yeah i'm joanna kreiling i am a

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    pediatric nurse practitioner and a

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    board-certified lactation consultant

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    i'm the director of clinical operations

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    for nest collaborative

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    um i live in ohio and i have four kids

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    awesome awesome so um

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    let's start with what um what are

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    lactation consultants and what do they

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    do like square one

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    so

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    um that's a really good question

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    there are different certification levels

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    um so an international board certified

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    lactation consultant

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    um can see um

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    you know internationally we can see

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    clients so it's unlike you know when

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    you're a nurse and you can only or a

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    doctor or whatever and you can only

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    practice in that one state

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    um so

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    to be a an international board certified

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    lactation consultant there is quite a

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    bit of

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    lactation related

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    education

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    that you are required to complete

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    there's a couple different pathways um

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    to

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    get the experience hours um

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    so

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    that

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    you know that can really

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    um

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    be something that

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    can be difficult or it could be more

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    easy for different people to obtain

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    um and then it's also where are they

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    obtaining that experience from is it

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    just hospital based you know initial

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    latching on or

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    is it you know all the way through

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    weaning you know maybe seeing children

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    two two years older

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    um so

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    experience is is

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    wide um

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    and uh basically what lactation

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    consultants are trained to do

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    is to

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    um

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    assist in whatever

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    goals that the family has whether that

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    is um increasing milk supply or

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    um

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    you know not nursing or

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    you know what pumping and nursing

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    exclusively pumping you know it's it's

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    whatever that particular family has

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    um

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    has a desire to

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    to do

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    cool cool

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    and um

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    uh

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    what um

    Becoming a lactation consultant

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    i guess maybe segway uh into this

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    question um what had you you became a

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    nurse practice you were a nurse

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    practitioner first and then you became a

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    lactation consultant what had you become

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    a lactation consultant specifically like

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    get that additional training and

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    certification

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    well

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    in

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    um in my nurse practitioner program we

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    did have some imp we did i remember

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    learning a bit about breastfeeding um

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    and i think um you know some programs

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    don't have it at all and and some

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    programs do

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    um you know to the extent of what

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    they're covering i'm not

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    sure it varies um so

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    by the time that i actually had my first

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    child

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    um

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    i realized that you know

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    it's

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    i didn't know enough to help my clients

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    because i certainly needed help and

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    you know i

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    you know i did the triple feeding for

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    two months until i decided enough was

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    enough with my first one because nobody

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    gave me a plan no one said you know this

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    we want you to do this and you know you

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    should see results by this and no one

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    helped me re-evaluate if things were

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    working or not working

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    um i certainly didn't know that a

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    lactation consultant like i guess i

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    don't know i thought that they were for

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    like that initial postpartum period or

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    i didn't i don't know that i considered

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    it all reaching out when the baby was

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    two months old to see if there was

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    anything else i could do i think i just

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    kind of made the decision on my own

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    because i felt overwhelmed and

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    knew i couldn't um continue doing that

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    um so

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    you know it's definitely something that

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    was challenging and

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    i think

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    my second child is when that went

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    better and so

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    but in that process is when i really

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    got my um

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    got my certification hours and all of

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    those things and and became

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    um certified so

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    yeah it was definitely it was between

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    kid two and three i think about it for a

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    minute

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    but yeah i mean just when clients in the

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    office in the pediatrician's office

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    would

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    have breastfeeding concerns um

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    you know we we

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    didn't really

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    you know have i didn't know well enough

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    what a good feed looks like and um how

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    to assess latch i mean you know and

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    and i think a lot of my male um cohorts

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    would call me and to do the

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    breastfeeding stuff

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    and it was just like well you know just

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    because i'm

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    a woman or

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    you know have had children or whatever

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    doesn't make me a breastfeeding expert

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    um

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    so it was really something that i wanted

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    to be able to help um

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    my clients because they were asking and

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    i was like i don't know

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    and um

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    just really wanted to give them

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    more information and better information

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    that i than i received definitely

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    definitely and on that note kind of

    When to contact a lactation consultant

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    tying that together like

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    um

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    when so i'm trying to take the

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    perspective of so for me just like

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    anecdotally i shared this with you a bit

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    before that i i have a child and i

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    breastfed and i had a really challenging

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    experience and i feel like i learned so

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    much

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    through that challenging experience but

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    so but i'm trying to take the frame of

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    reference of like

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    it like nurse practitioner education

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    alone without having any experience with

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    breastfeeding or parenting like if we

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    can like bring it back to that like when

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    if somebody is like not familiar at all

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    with lactation consulting like when if

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    they're an mp student our new grad mp

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    when would they want to contact a

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    lactation consultant or think about

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    referring their patients to one in your

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    kind of experience and perspective

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    i think what i i would really encourage

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    people to do would be

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    to find lactation consultants in their

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    area or

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    to identify those that they really trust

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    um

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    and

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    realize that

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    you don't

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    need to be a breastfeeding specialist

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    firstly if you're if you're

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    you know we know this that you know if

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    you step back and think about it if you

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    are doing

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    um you know primary care for example you

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    have to know

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    a lot

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    about a lot

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    of things you have to know

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    a whole bunch yeah so

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    you know it's

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    you know you could give the example if

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    someone's child needed

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    help um

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    because they're having difficulty

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    walking

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    we wouldn't say okay you know as the

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    pediatrician i want you to put on braces

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    and i want you to have your child walk

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    from this side of the room to this side

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    of the room

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    um five times daily and come back in a

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    week no we refer out right we refer out

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    to physical or occupational therapy we

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    refer to a specialist someone who's

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    really good

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    at recognizing

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    normal

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    not normal

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    what can that particular family what

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    will work for that particular particular

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    family that particular child

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    um

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    to meet whatever their goals are so

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    you know just that like i said you don't

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    have to be an expert if someone has

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    questions

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    if they are unclear if they just want to

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    learn more if i mean

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    if you have questions give them a call

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    like you know

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    just just

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    give yourself that permission to

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    if you're not sure

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    have have that really good resource um

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    available to you

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    um

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    and and you know use it and um

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    i think that uh that's you know really

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    the best i

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    advice is you know

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    they are the specialists um

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    they should be able to work specifically

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    and and be in unison as you know that's

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    with nest collaborative we're really

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    proud of our continuity so we

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    we work with pediatricians we work with

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    obstetricians and we work with you know

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    all of these different health care

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    providers because we want to all be on

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    the same page

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    with with these clients um

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    you know and i think that

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    recognizing that and then also

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    recognizing it's okay

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    to be preventative one of the

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    one of you know one of the things that

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    we're really passionate at this

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    collaborative is

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    preventative care so

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    what are the time periods

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    in a journey that

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    are potential pitfalls

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    for example my golden example is always

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    around six weeks your breasts may become

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    a bit softer because your

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    body has

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    gotten

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    you know in tune with your baby so

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    you're supplying meets their demand a

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    lot of women though they don't realize

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    this

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    is the reason so they think oh my gosh

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    my breasts are softer my milk supply is

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    going away i need to supplement yeah

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    well

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    yeah you know if they start

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    supplementing it's going to throw off

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    the breastfeeding and the actual milk

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    quantity that she does have and

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    so so let's talk to

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    clients let's let's talk to these

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    families and

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    say you know be be preventative let's

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    see them at three to five days let's see

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    them at two weeks let's see them at you

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    know whether they're before they go back

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    to work before they start solids before

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    before

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    we don't have to be

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    problem-based care yeah i was gonna

    How to prepare for a lactation consultant

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    that's one of the things i was gonna say

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    is like i think that if you have no

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    experience

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    like i was i was a nurse practitioner

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    when i had my daughter and like i

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    in my mind only sought lactation

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    consultant care when i had a problem and

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    i think that

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    i knew as a patient and as a provider

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    that i was like i'm really worried about

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    breastfeeding i should probably have

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    this conversation like what do i do to

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    prepare and i was a little bit like not

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    um

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    listened to in a way where it was kind

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    of like oh it'll be fine i'll show you

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    how to do it'll be fine but it's like

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    like you said like

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    it doesn't have to be problem based it

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    can be like let's think about this

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    before delivery let's think about it

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    right after delivery let's think about

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    it at those pitfall potential moments

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    yeah and especially if you have those um

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    clients you know

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    um that things don't go well the first

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    time where

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    they have um

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    you know

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    maybe they have mom has a health

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    condition and she's concerned about

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    the medications or health you know

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    something associated with with her body

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    um or maybe there's a

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    diagnosis with the child already like

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    the child is going to have a cleft

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    palate or so these are all reasons why

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    it's really good to meet with

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    a prenatal

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    consultation i love that we do ours

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    one-on-one because we can ask the

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    clients okay well what have you heard

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    what are you worried about and usually

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    it's low milk supply and

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    pain

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    yeah and um

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    so you know yeah i was going to say

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    especially for first-time mothers but

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    even like multiple times excuse me

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    first-time parents or multiple time

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    parents like like

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    they're there's so much to think about

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    at every interval like you as a parent

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    who has a child

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    in front of them for the first time

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    might not have the brain space or sleep

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    capacity to think about learning a new

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    skill right and so like how can we make

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    this as easy as possible for our

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    patients to like think about it

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    beforehand when they are relatively well

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    rested right before delivery and then

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    after and

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    you know that whole that whole piece

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    yeah yeah and like you said just just

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    normalizing like you know let's let's

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    see them you know the aap recommends

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    that there's a breastfeeding assessment

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    yeah in the office you know days three

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    to five and i'm thinking well

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    how many how many healthcare providers

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    um feel comfortable doing that how many

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    healthcare providers

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    um

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    can do that and and really know if a

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    latch looks good or not or you know how

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    to help with that

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    um

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    so you know that's that's a great reason

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    to just have them check in and um you

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    know they think everything is going

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    great

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    they just want to make sure

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    and you know we can a lot of times um

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    just reinforce

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    what um

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    they're already doing and give them that

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    support because

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    we have initiation in the united states

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    we do not have duration of processing of

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    breastfeeding yeah no for sure for sure

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    um and one one thing i was going to ask

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    you about um

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    was uh well i guess i guess two two one

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    point in a question so one one thing

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    this is reminding me of is that i did an

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    interview with a physical therapist and

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    i think in primary care

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    and maybe in you know pediatric practice

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    as well i think that sometimes we

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    misunderstand specialties

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    whether it's a provider specialty or if

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    it's a um like associate medical field

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    like physical therapy occupational

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    therapy because we don't understand what

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    they do i think it's easy to dismiss

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    like whether or not they need that right

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    so i think a lot of like you and i were

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    talking about before but sometimes

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    providers feel like they feel

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    comfortable enough with breastfeeding

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    but it's like oh that's enough but also

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    just like not underestimating just

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    because we don't fully understand what

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    it is what it means and what it's like

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    to be a lactation consultant doesn't

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    mean that there isn't like this whole

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    range of services that can help right

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    because i think that's one thing one

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    thing that i really aim to help us do as

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    like a profession is like connect with

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    our other

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    uh multi-disciplinary professions right

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    and so even if you don't know what a

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    lactation consultant does just like

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    trusting that there's like a whole

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    training process there's like a whole

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    knowledge base there's like all these

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    other things that we can do so like just

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    don't underestimate that so that was

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    like one point i wanted to connect but

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    then the other question i had for you i

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    am not savvy about this

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    at at this moment but what is your

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    experience of um like

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    insurance coverage

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    with um lactation consulting if you can

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    speak to that a lot of the a lot of the

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    people in the audience of real world np

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    struggle with patients having limited

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    access to resources

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    right so that is a really big one and

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    that's something that nest collaborative

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    um is is very

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    um

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    feels very strongly about you know our

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    founder amanda she really

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    works to

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    insurance companies that

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    should be following the affordable care

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    act and covering the minimum of six

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    visits

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    we will be you know working doggedly to

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    get those visits covered because

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    they are

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    you know part of that and they

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    have you know they should be covered so

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    um

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    you know that that is huge and a lot of

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    um

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    a lot of lactation consultants the way

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    that they work is they'll give the

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    clients the super bowl and they'll

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    encourage them to turn it into their

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    insurance

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    well

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    that's not

    Local resources

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    possible for a lot of it may not be

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    possible or i mean what happens if the

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    insurance

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    company comes back in says we're not

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    going to cover this i mean a family mem

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    you know this family that they have a

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    new baby you know they're getting all

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    these bills and

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    did they know how to

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    i don't know that

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    as a first-time parent that i would have

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    known like well i can fight this like i

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    don't i don't know

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    um

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    so

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    you know

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    i think that um

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    figuring out the local resources like

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    um whether it's you know encouraging

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    them to go to um

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    or to find

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    in their area lactation consultants that

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    do

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    take the different types of insurance

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    and you know keeping a list of it or you

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    know you can check again you can check

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    with nest collaborative

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    but really

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    really looking to see what you can do to

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    support because it's just so so

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    important

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    there's a part there's a point in

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    breastfeeding where it's like

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    you kind of just have to trust and let

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    it go because you're

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    you know it's not

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    precise yeah so

    18:51

    that is a lot of what

    18:53

    lactation consultants do actually is a

    18:56

    lot of counseling and a lot of education

    18:59

    um because they're you know especially

    19:03

    lately with covid and all of this you

    19:06

    know these these families are really on

    19:09

    edge so having

    19:11

    that lactation consultant there to say

    19:14

    you know

    19:15

    your positioning looks wonderful you

    19:18

    know you're so good

    19:21

    you know your your baby is having six to

    19:24

    eight wet

    19:25

    diapers and you know two to three bowel

    19:27

    movements a day and look at their little

    19:29

    double chin like oh my goodness your

    19:32

    baby is beautiful

    19:33

    and you're doing such a good job and i

    19:36

    know this is a really hard time period

    19:39

    so let's talk about some ways that you

    19:41

    can get some more rest or so there's a

    19:44

    lot you know

    19:46

    with the even with the telehealth

    19:47

    there's a lot of questions in terms of

    19:49

    well how can you do breastfeeding over

    19:51

    telehealth you can't do a way nurse way

    19:53

    you can't do this you can't do that and

    19:55

    that that is true we can't we can't do a

    19:58

    weiner's way

    19:59

    but

    20:00

    we

    20:02

    can

    20:03

    we can help with positioning and we can

    20:06

    um

    20:08

    you know we can see i mean i've

    20:10

    definitely you know we can have

    20:12

    consultations where at the beginning the

    20:14

    baby is like this

    20:16

    and by the end of the feed they're like

    20:18

    loose like spaghetti you don't need a

    20:20

    weiner's way to know that that baby is

    20:23

    completely

    20:24

    filled to the brim and happy you know so

    20:27

    yeah and just to clarify for people who

    Weighing the baby

    20:29

    aren't familiar with that is like one of

    20:30

    the things lactations consultants can do

    20:32

    is weigh the baby on a scale nurse them

    20:34

    and then weigh them again to see how

    20:36

    many ounces they've consumed

    20:38

    is that correct yeah yeah and you know

    20:40

    that in itself is a bit problematic

    20:43

    because

    20:45

    babies feed for a variety of reasons i

    20:48

    mean if you've ever breastfed you you

    20:50

    can you know that and you know the dog

    20:53

    barks and wakes the baby up and they

    20:55

    need to nurse for like two minutes just

    20:57

    to go back to sleep where

    20:59

    you know they're in a strange

    21:01

    area you know they're

    21:02

    not in their home environment so they

    21:04

    nurse differently or you know their

    21:06

    schedule gets off or you know all of

    21:09

    these different factors so

    21:11

    we do a lot of just teaching you know

    21:15

    these are hunger cues yeah this is the

    21:18

    time to feed your baby

    21:20

    um this is normal output this is you

    21:23

    know this is normal this is not normal

    21:26

    um giving them those tools giving them

    21:28

    that confidence to know that they're

    21:30

    doing a great job and

    21:33

    you know just so you know you know

    21:35

    babies start to cry and do some cluster

    21:39

    feeding in the evenings that doesn't

    21:40

    mean that your supply is low let's talk

    21:43

    about that you know giving them that

    21:45

    education that reassurance guidance on

    21:48

    you know their the baby's positioning

    21:51

    how mom can be more comfortable when

    21:53

    she's nursing

    21:54

    what can the support people i have been

    21:57

    like i just have the one nice thing

    22:00

    about covetous like all of the support

    22:02

    people that have been on on the visits

    22:04

    and having them be part of it

    22:06

    you know hey you know jeff can you get a

    22:08

    pillow and put it under you know the mom

    22:12

    you know under the baby do you see how

    22:14

    you know the baby's um face is now

    22:18

    facing facing mom's body you know we eat

    22:21

    facing the dinner table so babies do too

    22:23

    make sure that the baby is you know so

    22:25

    involving these other people has been

    22:28

    just so wonderful because they're there

    22:30

    we're not there 24 7. totally and maybe

    22:34

    maybe the support people are more

    22:35

    arrested and can remember things later

    22:38

    that's

    22:39

    it's true and like what a beautiful

    Nurse Practitioners

    22:40

    thing especially for nurse practitioners

    22:43

    watching or students who are watching

    22:44

    that have no experience with lactation

    22:46

    anything like just just imagining what a

    22:50

    beautiful extra layer of support we're

    22:52

    always looking for more support and

    22:53

    education for our patients and our

    22:54

    limited time windows like what a

    22:56

    beautiful thing to have a theoretically

    22:59

    covered insurance

    23:01

    covered by insurance service where

    23:02

    somebody is like giving such positive

    23:04

    energy and

    23:06

    education and support to to meet their

    23:09

    health goals right and the and the

    23:10

    child's health health goals as well so

    23:13

    yeah and you know those are all things

    23:15

    you're right that we

    23:16

    we will talk to them about as well you

    23:18

    know the positive health benefits for

    23:21

    um

    23:22

    for the mom for the baby

    23:24

    um you know we also do um like a mental

    23:28

    health assessment so we're you know

    23:30

    checking in

    23:31

    on that and you know really talking

    23:33

    through

    23:34

    um the whole and that's one of the

    23:36

    things i love about or i really want

    23:39

    reasons why i wanted to be a nurse

    23:40

    practitioner is because i really feel

    23:42

    like nurse practitioners are so

    23:44

    good at that education piece and we see

    23:47

    that client and the whole picture of

    23:49

    that client their

    23:50

    their whole family unit and all of the

    23:53

    different parts of that

    23:55

    that client and um it's just yeah it's

    23:58

    just been a joy

    23:59

    definitely so i think a wrap-up question

    24:02

    would be um i want to wrap up on some of

    24:04

    the takeaway points so i think a couple

    24:06

    of takeaways that i would share and you

    24:07

    can jump in with takeaways but i feel

    24:09

    like the main takeaways that i would

    24:10

    love to impart for people is like

    24:13

    taking them

    24:14

    just acknowledging lactation consultants

    24:16

    exist theoretically it's covered by

    24:18

    insurance um and that also it can be

    24:21

    from a preventative perspective and not

    24:22

    just a problem-based perspective where

    24:24

    you're jumping in when somebody's having

    24:25

    pain or the baby's losing too much

    24:27

    weight or something like that um and

    24:29

    then um you know the

    Lactation Consultants

    24:33

    finding a lactation consultant group

    24:34

    especially for newer grads it's really

    24:36

    hard to get the lay of the land but like

    24:38

    if you can find a lactation consultant

    24:40

    you trust

    24:42

    that or that your that your clinic

    24:43

    already works with or trusts like

    24:45

    connecting with them getting to know

    24:47

    them

    24:47

    and collaborating with them i mean it

    24:49

    sounds like

    24:50

    you know and hopefully collaborating

    24:52

    with a a lactation consultant that

    24:54

    understands the clientele you work with

    24:55

    and you know with regards to insurance

    24:57

    coverage if you have challenging

    24:59

    insurance coverage situations that they

    25:01

    understand your clients but yeah any

    25:03

    takeaways you want to share and in

    25:04

    addition or like other resources that

    25:06

    people can look at to find

    25:08

    yeah i mean i would just you you did a

    25:11

    you did a really good job of summing it

    25:13

    up um i would just

    25:15

    say yeah if you have

    25:18

    questions or concerns then you check in

    25:20

    with a lactation consultant

    25:23

    and you know you could follow a

    25:25

    lactation consultant to learn more or

    25:29

    you know it's it's just uh

    25:31

    it's really great preventatively and

    25:34

    also if there is a problem um

    25:37

    and just that uh

    25:39

    we are here to help and

    25:42

    yeah that's it i mean really that's

    25:44

    about it and awesome

    25:46

    [Music]

    25:47

    well thank you so much um where can

    Nest Collaborative

    25:49

    people um find more information from you

    25:52

    you work with the company nest

    25:54

    collaborative yes so we are at yeah

    25:57

    we're at www dot or https or whatever it

    26:01

    is these days um

    26:03

    we're at nest collaborative.com and um

    26:06

    you can see the insurance is there

    26:09

    we frequently have

    26:11

    people

    26:12

    who will

    26:13

    call or

    26:14

    message about um insurance coverage

    26:18

    but we do have it set up so that you

    26:21

    know we would notify if insurance was

    26:23

    not going to cover it

    26:25

    um

    26:26

    you know because that

    26:28

    that would you know that that's just

    26:30

    what the fair thing is to do to warn

    26:32

    people but

    26:33

    um yeah we're we're very much

    26:36

    um happy to help and to collaborate and

    26:40

    um to be part of carrot teams

    26:42

    um for for you know helping these

    26:45

    helping these

    26:46

    clients be successful in the in the long

    26:49

    term to meet whatever their goals are

    26:52

    awesome well thank you so much i

    26:53

    appreciate it

    26:55

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    26:57

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