NEED BREASTFEEDING ASSISTANCE?
Serving Greenwich, CT and surrounding communities.

Stephanie accepts Cigna, Aetna, Oxford and United Healthcare.

Text or call: 203-340-1113
Email: stephanie@greenwichlactation.com
Picture
Stephanie Cleary is passionate about helping families. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) providing home and virtual visits to families in Greenwich, CT and surrounding communities. She finds great joy in providing breastfeeding support to mothers and their babies.

Stephanie lives in Greenwich, CT with her husband and two daughters. Her understanding of breastfeeding is enhanced by having breastfed her own children and the positive experience she and her children shared.
Picture
Stephanie is the current president of Tri-State Breastfeeding Association. The Tri-State Breastfeeding Association is an incorporated non-profit organization committed to protecting, promoting, and supporting breastfeeding in the tri-state area. Our members include lactation consultants in hospitals and private practice, nurses, physicians, midwives, childbirth educators, nutritionists, doulas, WIC educators, La Leche League leaders, and other breastfeeding advocates in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Picture

Stephanie is a La Leche League Leader.  La Leche League Leader volunteers are experienced breastfeeding mothers accredited by La Leche League International. Leaders know the importance of one mother helping another to recognize and understand the needs of her child and to find the best means of fulfilling those needs. Leaders provide information and support so that each mother can make the decisions which are best for her family.  
Picture
Stephanie is a member of the Hudson Valley Birth Network.  The Hudson Valley Birth Network is a nonprofit membership organization, believes that birth is a normal, natural event for most women. We provide the public and professionals with evidence-based information about pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. We help families make the decisions that are best for them in order to give birth safely and joyously, and we ensure they have access to support as new parents.
Picture
Stephanie is a member on The New York Lactation Consultant Association.  The New York Lactation Consultant Association (NYLCA) strives for accountability to help parents find higher quality care and to enhance recognition of those providers who provide that care.
Picture
Stephanie is a member of  Woman Owned Greenwich.   Woman Owned Greenwich connects women business owners & local leaders to each other, to resources & to their community.  It is made up of a diverse group of women who own local businesses and lead nonprofits in Greenwich Connecticut.
INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANTS (IBCLC) HELP MOTHERS WITH:
  • Prenatal breastfeeding assessment and counseling
  • Positioning and latch of an infant
  • Prevention and management of maternal concerns such as breast pain and engorgement
  • Establishing and increasing milk production
  • Premature babies
  • Infants with neurological deficits or physical disabilities
  • Suck difficulties that interfere with breastfeeding
  • Confidence to breastfeed for as long as mother and baby want
  • Breastfeeding-supportive measures when mother and baby are separated due to work, medical, or educational issues

INTERNATIONAL BOARD CERTIFIED LACTATION CONSULTANTS (IBCLC) ARE:
  • The only internationally recognized health care professional who specializes in lactation care
  • Recognized the world over as possessing the only standardized, board-certified lactation credential available
  • Knowledgeable about up-to-date evidence-based practices in lactation as demonstrated through a rigorous exam process
  • Experienced in a wide variety of complex breastfeeding situations
  • Competent to assist mothers with establishing and sustaining breastfeeding, even in the midst of difficulties and high-risk situations that can arise
  • Sensitive to the needs of both mothers and children as they work to help mothers meet their breastfeeding goals
  • Ethical in their practice, abiding by Standards of Practice and a Code of Ethics and working within a defined Scope of Practice