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…
Listed on A Baby Place's website.
Listed on Lactation Care Connection's website.
Listed on Lactation Care Connection's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
A bilingual (Spanish-speaking) IBCLC offering in-home breastfeeding support to Chicago-area families.
Listed on A Baby Place's website.
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…
Listed on Lactation Partners's website.
Listed on Close to Home Lactation Consulting (Haley Willson)'s website.
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…
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on Lactation Partners's website.
Listed on Lactation Partners's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
A solo IBCLC based in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood offering in-home and virtual breastfeeding consultations across the city and surrounding areas.
Listed on Kate Ogilvie's website.
Listed on A Baby Place's website.
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…
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on A Baby Place's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on Springfield Lactation (Malia Naqvi)'s website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
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…
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
A solo IBCLC in Springfield with 10+ years of hospital and outpatient experience providing customized latch, pumping, weaning, and mastitis support.
Listed on Taylor-Made Lactation's website.
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…
Listed on North Shore Lactation's website.
Central-Illinois practice of Trish Wierenga, FNP, IBCLC, who chairs the International Affiliation of Tongue Tie Professionals and specializes in tongue- and lip…
Listed on The Birth Center of Bloomington Normal's website.
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).
IBCLC lactation support (ZipMilk directory).
Listed on Callisto Lactation's website.