An IBCLC lactation consultant who comes to you in Indooroopilly.
Indooroopilly is the corridor's front door — the railway station, the bus interchange, the shopping centre with the library on level four, and around thirteen and a half thousand people living in a mix of Queenslanders and apartment blocks. It is also younger than the national median, which in practice means a great many first babies, and a great many parents whose own mothers live in another state.
If you are feeding in a two-bedroom unit with a partner working from the kitchen table and no family within a thousand kilometres, the ordinary advice to get out and see someone can feel like an enormous ask. Packing a pram into a lift is not a small thing at three weeks.
I'm Sara, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and I come to you. Buzzer, lift, third floor, all of it. An initial consultation runs 90 minutes and there is no version of it where I hurry you out the door.
The support that already exists in Indooroopilly.
Indooroopilly has something the rest of the western corridor does not: a Queensland Health child health service, at Shop 2 on the corner of Lambert Road and Clarence Road. It is free, it covers birth to eight years, appointments are made on 1300 366 039, and it explicitly includes support with breastfeeding and early feeding. If money is tight, start there. I would much rather you were seen than not seen.
Where it differs from what I do is depth and setting. A child health appointment is generalist, it runs to a clinic schedule, and it happens in a clinic. What I bring is a full 90 minutes in your own home, a complete oral assessment including a suck test, and a plan built around your actual kitchen, your actual pump and your actual return-to-work date.
Geographically, Indooroopilly sits about five kilometres from The Wesley Hospital at Auchenflower, with the Mater and the Royal Brisbane within a comfortable run. Wherever you birthed, the shape is the same — thorough care while you are an inpatient, a little support afterwards, and then it tapers. The questions that arrive at ten weeks arrive after all of that has finished.
Getting to you in Indooroopilly.
Indooroopilly is about seventeen kilometres from the Moggill clinic, most of it along Moggill Road, and comfortably under half an hour when the road is behaving. It is not always behaving. I'd rather leave early and wait five minutes in the car than knock on your door apologising.
For a unit visit, three things help: the building number, whether I need a code or a call at the entrance, and where I can leave a car for ninety minutes. Parking is the one genuinely fiddly part of visiting Indooroopilly, and it is much easier solved before I'm circling the block. There is a travel fee on home visits, worked out by distance; ring 0450 188 411 and I'll tell you what yours comes to.
Questions from Indooroopilly families
Do you visit apartments and units in Indooroopilly?
Yes, often. A unit is a perfectly good place to assess a feed — in some ways better, because I get to see the chair you actually use and the corner where you pump. Send me the building number and any entry code when you book, and let me know where visitors normally park. If your building is strict about that, tell me and we'll work it out beforehand.
There's a free child health service in Indooroopilly. Do I need you as well?
Not necessarily, and I'll say that plainly. The Indooroopilly Child Health service at the corner of Lambert and Clarence Roads is free, covers birth to eight years, includes breastfeeding and early feeding support, and takes bookings on 1300 366 039. If your question is a general one, that is a good place to start. Come to me when you need a longer look — pain that hasn't resolved, an oral assessment, a suck test, or a plan that hasn't worked despite you doing everything right.
Would it be quicker for me to come to the Moggill clinic?
Rarely, from Indooroopilly. It's about seventeen kilometres each way, which is most of an hour in the car with a newborn, before you've fed anyone or found the keys. Most Indooroopilly families are better served by a home visit. The exception is a flange fitting, which is worth doing at the clinic where the hospital-grade pump and the full range of sizes live.
My baby is four months old and feeding has suddenly become a fight. Is it too late to get help?
No. I see babies from newborn right through to 24 months, and four months is a very common point for feeding to change. Distraction, a changing latch, a growth spurt, teeth on the way, a supply that feels different because it has settled — these are real and they are usually workable. Bring any recent weights with you, because gain across weeks rather than days tells us far more than a single number will.
Prefer to check first?
Send Sara a message describing what's happening. She reads every one herself, and she'll tell you honestly whether a home visit, a Telehealth consult or the free local service is the right next step.
Or call 0450 188 411
Nearby areas Sara visits
Sara also visits Taringa, Chapel Hill, St Lucia, Fig Tree Pocket and the surrounding area.
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