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Lactation Services for Breast Feeding Moms in Bozeman, MT
Billings Clinic Bozeman lactation experts provide comprehensive lactation services to Bozeman area women. They can care for you from prenatal lactation visits, to the newborn stage, NICU graduates, returning to work, extended breastfeeding, throughout your entire breastfeeding experience.
Our Lactation Consultants
Jaime June, BS, IBCLC, CLC
Jaime is an international board certified Lactation consultant (IBCLC). She holds a B.S. from the University of California Davis and completed the University of California San Diego Lactation Consultant Program. After having her first child and struggling with breastfeeding and then having complications with her third child Jaime began learning and pursuing a new career in Lactation by completing her CLC (Certified lactation counselor) training. This allowed her to start hosting a breastfeeding support group weekly in Bozeman and was the stepping stone she needed to decide to pursue more in-depth lactation training leading to her board certification.
After two more children and some crazy years of studying and doing clinics Jaime passed the Boards and found herself working for Billings Clinic as well as having a private practice. Jaime specializes in mothers struggling to make the transition home with their new baby. She has experience with feeding difficulties, supply issues, adoptive parent breastfeeding, NICU transition, multiples, birth injury, infants with congenital abnormalities as well as general infant feeding.
Jaime loves most working to help mothers find a smooth transition into a life with their new child. She is excited to be developing a more Bozeman-based practice and being available to mothers in a pediatric setting.
Sara Longobardi, PA-C, IBCLC
Sara is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and completed the Lactation Consultant Program through the University of California, San Diego. She also holds a Master of Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Iowa. After practicing as a PA in Minneapolis, Sara chose to focus on raising her three children full-time, and she and her family moved to Bozeman in 2016.
Sara has been actively engaged in the community as a volunteer with Roots Family Collaborative and served as a board member for MAEVE Bozeman, a local nonprofit supporting mothers. Her passion for connecting with other mothers, as well as her personal experience & challenges with breastfeeding led her to seek out additional clinical training in lactation. Sara strives to provide compassionate lactation care that is personalized to each family’s unique needs and feeding goals. She has a special interest in maternal mental health and offers a space for parents to be supported and empowered on their breastfeeding journey.
According to the CDC, breastfeeding can help protect babies from many short- and long-term illnesses and diseases. Breastfeeding babies may have a lower risk of:
- Asthma
- Obesity
- Type 1 diabetes
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- Ear infections
- Stomach bugs
- Severe lower respiratory disease
- Gastrointestinal infections (diarrhea/vomiting)
- Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) for preterm infants
Breast milk is the ideal food for infants because it's safe, clean, and contains antibodies that help protect against many common childhood illnesses. It also provides all the energy and nutrients that infants need for the first months of life.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that infants be exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months, and then continue breastfeeding alongside the introduction of complementary foods for at least 1 year (Dietary Guidelines) or at least 2 years (AAP).
References
For Babies:
- Prolonged and Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces the Risk of Infectious Diseases in Infancy, Pediatrics Vol.126, No.1 July 1010 pp. 18-25
- http://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343 (10) 00385-2/abstract
- Glucose and Insulin Levels are Increased in Obese and Overweight Mother’s Breast Milk. Food and Nutrition Sciences, 2011, 2, 201-206, published on line May 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/fns)
- Protection of the Neonate by the Innate Immune System of Developing Gut and of Human Milk. Pediatric Res. 61. (1): 1-8. 2007 and Breast Milk Sugars Give Infants a Protective Coat; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The New York Times., 8/4/2010
- Exosomes with Immune Modulatory Features are Present in Human Breast Milk, The Journal of Immunology, copyright 2007
- Breastfeeding Reduces Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Metanalysis, Pediatrics 123. (3) e406-e410. 2009 abstract
- Breastfeeding, Asthma, and Allergy: A Tale of Two Cities.
Pediatric Allergy Immunology. 2011 Dec. 4 and Influence and Mechanisms of Maternal and Infant Diets on the Development of Childhood Asthma. Pediatric Neonatology, 2013 Feb., 54 (1)
- Maternal Asthma, Infant Feeding and the Risk of Asthma in
Childhood. J Allergy Clin. Immunol 2002; 110:65-67
- Breast to Brain: The potential of stem cells in human milk. Twigger et al; Journal of Human Lactation 29 (2) 136-139 May ‘13 For Women: 1-3. Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer: Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding: Collaborative Reanalysis of Individual Date from 47 Epidemiological Studies in 30 countries, Including 50,302 Women with Breast Cancer and 96,973 Women Without the Disease. Lancet 360. (9328): 187-195-, 2002
For Additional Cost Savings:
- Healthcare Costs of Formula Feeding in the First Year of Life. Pediatrics 103. (4):870-876, 1999
- Data acquired through simple math. Calculating cost of formula, then amount ingested by the growing infant over the first year of life.
For the Environment:
- Page 7 http://issuu.com/jillfranksdesign/docs/wetsetgazette_vol_2_2011
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