Believe Midwifery Services
118 West Main Street
Thorntown, IN 46071
ph: 765-436-7527
fax: 765-436-7114
Lactation Services
Gather together with breastfeeding mothers in the community for encouragement, counsel and fellowship. Meetings occur the third Friday of each month from Noon to 2pm at Believe Midwifery Services. All are welcome!
Contact Liza Gardner at 812-887-5223 or Sarah Miller at 765-335-3304 for further details regarding the Mothering Circle, or with need for general mothering support and encouragement.
Robert Conner & Mommy
Believe there's light at the end of the tunnel.
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work; you don't give up. ANNE LAMOTT
Penny Lane MSN, CNM, IBCLC is a board certified lactation consultant with an undergraduate degree in maternal/child health: lactation consulting. She has fourteen years of experience working with lactating mothers and has fewer greater joys than encouraging mothers, advocating for their rights, and working through challenges in effort to optimize the breastfeeding couples experience. Penny is the chair of the Boone, Clinton and Montgomery County Breastfeeding Coalition and hosts the Thorntown support group each month. Penny is available for private lactation consultations within the Thorntown office.
Penny also offers services to clip the tongue-tied baby (frenectomy) or clip a tight labial frenulum (upper lip).
Believe Midwifery is a distributor of
Hygeia Breastpumps.
The EnDeare Breastpump is a hospital-grade electric/battery double pump available for rental, by week or month, through Believe Midwifery Services. For long-term and frequent pumping needs the EnDeare is ideal. Personal accessory set sold separately for $46. Rental Rate is $21/week or $45/month.
Believe Midwifery also offers the EnJoye EPS with personal accesory kit for the purchase price of $229.
- Features the unique Hygeia CARE Button for Customized, Audio, Recording, Experience so you can record your baby or other sound to enhance your pumping experience
- Green breast pump, Can be shared by multiple mothers when each has her own personal accessory set
- The EnJoye EPS uses electric operation only.
- The EnJoye EPS pump aloneweighs 2.4 lbs.
- Included:EnJoye EPS Breast pump with Electric Power Supply and Personal Accessory Set
We also have the EnJoye pump with a litium battery in either the black or brown tote for $320.
Expression cups for $15.
New Study Finds Hand Expression preferable in first 48 hours In the early postpartum period, the best way to obtain colostrum is by gentle manual expression, this was found superior even to hopsital grade breastpumps. Net milk yield per woman was 2 mL manually (median; range: 012.6 mL) and 0.6 mL (07.2 mL) by electric expression (P < 0.05).
Hand Expression Video - VHS, DVD, PAL by Geddes Productions This is a step-by-step instruction of how to hand express milk.Women learn this technique in one viewing!It's great for Mothers of premature babies.Teaching in the NICU.Working women who are breastfeeding. Women using electric or hand pumps who want to learn how to boost their milk supply. Title: HAND EXPRESSION- Sacar Leche Manualmente available in English or Spanish. By expert Kittie Frantz. Order here from Geddes Productions
Hand Expressing BreastMilk Video (Streaming) Until recently hand expression of milk has been an under-utilized skill in our society. But there are many benefits of knowing how to express milk from the breast without the use of expensive or cumbersome pumps. In this video, Dr. Jane Morton demonstrates how easily hand expression can be taught to mothers.
Additional assessory kits for the breastpumps are $46 each. Hydrogels are $8 pair and breast pads are $10/box of 60 (medium or large). Breastmilk storage bags are available for $10/bag of 25. Duckbill valves are available for $4, filters for the pump are $6, car charges for $18, and an external battery pack for $20. Flanges (medium, large or extra large with duckbill valve) are $9.
PumpEase Hands Free Pumping Supports are $38, or $42 for organic material.
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La Leche League was founded to give information and encouragement, mainly through personal help, to all mothers who want to breastfeed their babies. While complementing the care of the physician and other health care professionals, it recognizes the unique importance of one mother helping another to perceive the needs of her child and to learn the best means of fulfilling those needs. www.lalecheleague.org
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Indiana Code. IC 16-35-6-1
As added by P.L.125-2003, SEC.1.
Notwithstanding any other law, a woman may breastfeed her child anywhere the woman has a right to be.
New York Congresswoman Carolyn B Maloney has recently introduced the Breastfeeding Promotion Act, which would provide women nationwide with the kind of support necessary for successful, sustained breastfeeding. www.maloney.house.gov
The Boone, Clinton & Montgomery County Breastfeeding Coalition was created as a grass-roots group, composed of diverse individuals seeking to protect, support and promote breastfeeding families within our community. Currently the group is primarily presented through its blog. We are always looking for volunteers to assist in our efforts. Visit our blog to see how you might be able to help.
Our coalition received the honor of tying for Indiana Coalition of the Year for 2010!!
This symbol indicates baby-friendly areas and breastfeeding-friendly facilities, as well as increasing awareness of breastfeeding.
Breastfed children have a decreased risk of post-neonatal death in the United States (Chen & Walter, 2004). Longer breastfeeding was associated with lower risk of postneonatal death in the same study.
Believe Midwifery Services
118 West Main Street
Thorntown, IN 46071
ph: 765-436-7527
fax: 765-436-7114
