Milkmade At Home

I heard great reviews on this LC but she has retired and I wanted to say that if you are in need of a great LC now call North County Lactation services aka. Ann Russell. I just don’t want desperate moms out there to feel that there’s no hope. there is!

Eve and her staff were just amazing and I am SO sad to report that she retired last year and shut down her business.

What a great place. I am so thrilled that San Diego offers free and comfortable breastfeeding support. I recommend it to anyone who plans to feed their baby the good stuff.

I have to say I can’t imagine anyone saying Eve is anything but absolutely amazing. Eve is the best LC I have ever met in my life. I am going to be an LC by her inspiration. I do admit my breastfeeding experience with my son was not a difficult one. What was difficult was to keep breastfeeding, working and school.
That being said, I was going to stop breastfeeding my son after 5 months and went to Eve for a consult. i had been having trouble keeping my milk up and was fed up. She told me what to do to get my milk moving more and talked me into doing it for at least a year.
Well, my son is 2 now and I just stopped breastfeeding him. I’m so glad I did.
She inspires me to help mothers in the way she helped me. My relationship with my child is better because of her. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

There are Lactation Consultants and then there is Eve. *clouds part, sun rays sine and angles sing* She is the Rolls Royce among Pintos.
I know my nursing experience is not normal and many mothers dont experience half as much as I did, 7 Lactation Consultants, 2 Ear Nose Throat Specialists, 1 Occupational Therapist, 3 pediatricians and 2 midwives. This was over the course of 2 ½ months.
From the very first time my son latched on I was in excruciating pain and it got worse with each feeding and in 2 days I was red, raw, bleeding and cracked. At Mary Birch I saw 3 LCs and none of them caught that he was tongue tied, even though he had a text book case (type 3). So I left the hospital with a nipple shield, pumping after every feeding and using what I had pumped from the previous feeding to supplement the next feeding with a syringe and tube that I slid in my sons mouth as he was nursing. Mary Birch LCs told me «In about a week after your tissue (nipples) have healed dont use the nipple shields and everything will be fine» Well, that was wrong. As soon as I stopped using them, I had all of the pain and bleeding just like before. I kept going to different peds, and doctors looking for help. I was told to keep up what I was doing. I couldnt I was exhausted. 1 ½ nursing session and then pumping… I would have 10 — 30 min. before it all started again. This went on for 4 weeks. Then my son finally got diagnosed correctly. He got a frenalplasty (clipping of the webbing under the tongue). Which helped about 80% (the doctor didnt do it well enough) His nursing got better and he was transferring milk MUCH better so I stopped the supplementation. Still had to use the nipple shields. Then I got Mastitis and I got it bad, 4 days in the hospital, IV and oral antibiotics and a ravaged milk supply. I was down to nothing. I could nurse in the beginning of the day but by the late afternoon I was out of milk, couldnt pump anything, not a drop, couldnt manually express a single drop. So then started the formula. I did everything naturally that I could to get my supply back. It took weeks to get my supply up and the whole time I kept seeing more specialists and LCs. I just wanted to nurse my son normally, without nipple shields, without formula, pumping, herbs etc. Then came Thrush. Oh the joys of Thrush. This is when Eve entered my life. She helped me cure the Thrush and told me my son was still tongue tied (which required a 2^nd clipping), fixed my latch, helped me get my milk supply back 100%. She fine tuned everything. Finally after 2 ½ months of HELL, crying, frustration, horribly conflicting advice, I could nurse my son… just he and I. Because of Eve and only because of her he is still nursing today (23 months old)
I can’t stress enough how amazing she is. Her sense of humor helped me relax when I was an exhausted knot of nerves. When I went to her 2 years ago she told me she had consulted over 3,000 babies with nursing issues. She is a wealth of knowledge among a pool of bad advice and misinformation.
I lived at the free nursing support group classes. Pat (who nursed all 6 of her children) answered all of my questions. It was my sanctuary. The only place that supported me and understood my desire to nurse my son without supplementation. I wasnt dismissed. Pat is also cooky and funny.
I am writing this review 2 years after the events so my memory is foggy and I have left out lots of details. But the bottom line is Eve is The lactation god!!! 5 stars if I could 100 stars for Eve!!!

Still fabulous! I came back here 3 months later and not only did Eve remember me, she was as helpful as ever. Once again, I was having issues with my baby nursing and Eve instantly knew what the problem was and gave me instant solutions. I came to the free breastfeeding class this time and she treated me with as much attention as if I was in a private session. Thanks to Milkmade at Home, my baby and I are off and running again!

I went there just to buy some equipment and was surprised by in the incredible rudeness of the woman– she had a British accent– I’m assuming she was the owner, Eve. From the moment I walked into the place she was dismissive and nasty. Then, when I asked her questions regarding the infant massage group she answered me with an insolent and patronizing tone. You would have to be a complete masochist to endure that type of treatment. I will never ever give her business again. And to qualify myself a little, I only created an account on Unilocal so I could write this negative review.