Get ready and give your breastfeeding journey the best start!

Prenatal lactation consultation

If you want to start breastfeeding on the right track, this is for you. After this consultation, you'll know what to expect and feel confident when your baby arrives.

We'll discuss your feeding goals, try different breastfeeding positions, address concerns about milk supply and latching, debunk breastfeeding myths, answer any questions you have, cover colostrum expression before birth, and more!

It can be done in-person or online, and handouts will be provided for future reference. All family members are welcome to join!

Our fees

Home visits

A prenatal consultation from the comfort of your home. We will come to you and we will work with you and your family!

60-90 mins | $250 + HST | Book online

For home visits, the travel fee is included if you are close enough to your lactation consultant’s location, usually within a 15 km ratio. Please consider booking with the lactation consultant closer to you to avoid an additional travel fee. Check their locations below and make sure to include your full address when booking; or make a request here and we’ll book you in with the provider closest to you!

LOCATIONS: Paola (Yonge & Sheppard), Marta (Royal York & Eglinton), Milena (Park Lawn Road & Lakeshore Blvd), Alena (Wilson & Bathurst), Nadia (Dundas & Parliament).

Virtual sessions

Online consultations, through a video-call or phone-call by using a safe HIPPA/PIPEDA compliant software.

60 mins | $160 + HST | Book online

In-clinic sessions

In-person prenatal consultation in our office in Yonge & Sheppard*.

60 mins | $175 + HST | Book online

*Hullmark Centre. 4789 Yonge St Unit 902, Toronto, ON M2N 0G3. Inside Dr. Sarah Seaborn’s Clinic.

Our services might be covered by some private insurance companies. Some of our lactation consultants are registered nurses, some others are IBCLCs, and their services might be covered under one of their credentials, you will have to check your individual policy to determine your level of coverage

Our lactation consultants

  • Paola Vallarino, IEP CBS IBCLC

    Paola is an Internationally Educated Physician, a Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has over 10 years of medical background, 3 years of clinical experience in Lactation Medicine and she holds a diploma in Child Nutrition. Paola provides families with feeding support when breastfeeding, pumping, supplementing and with solid foods. She's fluent in English and Spanish. She's based in Uptown/Midtown Toronto.

    Since finishing her medical training and becoming a mom, Paola's mission has been to support, educate and empower families so they can feel confident and give their babies the best start.

  • Marta Bouina, RN IBCLC

    ​Marta is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), a Registered Nurse and a proud mother of two amazing boys, with whom she had a 6-year breastfeeding journey. While overcoming various breastfeeding challenges herself, she became very passionate about breastfeeding. She wanted to help other women, by providing hands on support and empowerment.

    Marta is fluent in Ukrainian and English. She's based in Etobicoke. If you are facing breastfeeding challenges, Marta is here for you! She will support you, and your vision of feeding success.

  • Milena Pingitore, IBCLC

    Milena is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and a mother of successfully breastfed twins. She received her Lactation Medicine Diploma after over 90 hours of lactation specific education and over 750 hours of supervised, hands-on experience in the International Breastfeeding Centre. She's based in Etobicoke.

    Having faced her own challenges with fertility, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and parenting, Milena is here to hold space for conversation, community, and support while sharing evidence-based research, tools, and resources to help you build confidence at any stage of your journey.

  • Alena Brashavitskaya, RN IBCLC

    Alena is an experienced Postpartum Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has been a part of Mount Sinai Hospital High Risk Mother & Baby Program for almost a decade. For the last two years of her career she is based at the ambulatory breastfeeding clinic as a Lactation Coordinator, helping families with newborns meet their feeding goals. She's based in North York.

    As a mother of two breastfed kids, Alena had to overcome her own challenges on the path to breastfeeding them. As a Lactation Consultant, Alena’s approach is to provide family-centred, gentle, non-judgmental care directed at accomplishing your feeding goals.

  • Nadia Bellio, IBCLC CBS

    Nadia is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Certified Breastfeeding Specialist with 20 years of experience providing lactation support. She worked as a Registered Midwife in Ontario from 2007 to 2023, providing comprehensive prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care to hundreds of families. She has also taught prenatal and HypnoBirthing classes. She's based in Downtown Toronto.

    Nadia has extensive experience providing anticipatory guidance to pregnant people as they prepare for feeding their baby, and seeing them through the transition to successfully breast or chest-feeding. She brings a kind, compassionate and non-judgemental approach to the care she provides, as well as a strong desire to support families from all backgrounds.

Get prepared and give your breastfeeding journey a great beginning!