Lactation Consultants (IBCLC)
What to look for
- The IBCLC credential (the gold standard)
- In-home vs. office vs. virtual visits
- Experience with tongue/lip-tie, preemies, or low supply
- Whether they bill insurance — many private plans now cover IBCLC visits
Who this helps
New parents with latch pain, supply concerns, slow weight gain, or a baby with feeding difficulties.
A western-suburbs practice of IBCLCs serving Glen Ellyn, the Fox Valley, and DeKalb County with in-home support for ties, multiples, exclusive pumping, and NICU…
A bilingual (Spanish-speaking) IBCLC offering in-home breastfeeding support to Chicago-area families.
A solo IBCLC in Brownstown offering in-home visits across central/southern Illinois (and virtual care) covering prenatal, tongue-tie, pumping, and return-to-wor…
Chicago-area practice led by Patrycja Ptak, BSN, RNC-NIC, IBCLC, drawing on 21 years of Level III NICU nursing to provide in-home prenatal and postpartum lactat…
Practice of Cindy Rubin, MD, IBCLC, FAAP, a board-certified breastfeeding and lactation medicine physician in Forest Park seeing families in-home or at her offi…
A solo IBCLC based in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood offering in-home and virtual breastfeeding consultations across the city and surrounding areas.
A western-suburbs Chicago practice of IBCLCs with NICU and speech-pathology backgrounds providing in-home and virtual consults for premature and medically fragi…
A Chicagoland private practice of registered nurses who are board-certified lactation consultants providing in-home breastfeeding and new-family support since t…
A Spring Valley IBCLC practice serving Central Illinois and the Illinois Valley with in-home, in-office, and virtual visits plus pump, scale, and donor-milk ser…
A northwest-suburbs IBCLC and perinatal mental health provider offering in-home and virtual breastfeeding support plus infant craniosacral therapy across Huntle…
A Naperville practice staffed by IBCLCs (including RN Stacey Bextel) with nearly two decades of private, community, and hospital lactation experience.
A Chicago practice of 12 IBCLCs (founded by Melissa Block) offering in-home and virtual lactation care with NICU, tethered-oral-tissue, and complex-feeding expe…
A solo IBCLC in Springfield with 10+ years of hospital and outpatient experience providing customized latch, pumping, weaning, and mastitis support.
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).
A Bloomington birth center providing IBCLC-led lactation care for latch, tongue/lip ties, supply, and infant weight concerns regardless of where the baby was de…
Central-Illinois practice of Trish Wierenga, FNP, IBCLC, who chairs the International Affiliation of Tongue Tie Professionals and specializes in tongue- and lip…
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).