Kathryn Stagg is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and OCN Level 3 Holistic Sleep Coach. She supports families with feeding, normal baby behaviour and sleep. Support is available face to face in the Harrow area, or online via Zoom.
Kathryn has over 20 years of experience supporting families to breastfeed their babies. She began her training after the birth of her twins when she was lucky enough to receive wonderful breastfeeding support. Given the opportunity to train to be a Breastfeeding Peer Supporter, she jumped at the chance to give something back. She headed up the multiple birth breastfeeding project in Harrow offering antenatal education and post natal support. Kathryn continued her breastfeeding education by training as a Breastfeeding Counsellor with the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers and was proud to be the 2017 winner of the ABM’s Pam’s Prize, celebrating Breastfeeding Counsellors and all the support they give. She continues to volunteer on the National Breastfeeding Helpline whenever she has some free time. Wanting to increase her knowledge further, Kathryn trained as an IBCLC and has recently completed her 5 year recertification.
Kathryn offers postnatal breastfeeding support in the comfort of your own home and antenatal education in groups or individually. She also offers breastfeeding support online via Zoom, something in which she gained a lot of experience in during lockdown! It is surprisingly effective. She specialises in multiple birth families. Kathryn is also available to speak at conferences and webinars. Her mission is to empower mums to breastfeed their babies, whether one, two or three at a time, give evidence based information and empathic support and to educate others that breastfeeding more than one baby is definitely possible. She also works in collaboration with Miriam Feen IBCLC on online workshops on various topics and a breastfeeding clinic in Eastcote.
Kathryn is an experienced International speaker and has presented in Ireland, Poland and Portugal as well as across the UK, and online for Gold Lactation Conference, USCLA, NZCLA, the Breastfeeding Network, the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers and has submitted modules for Gold Learning and a lactation education organisation in Columbia!
Kathryn has written many articles and contributed chapters in various books. She has recently had her first book published, “Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets; a guide for health care professionals and parents” available from all good book stores and Jessica Kingsley Publications
Infant sleep is so heavily intertwined with breastfeeding and early years support, and after her own child was a challenge in this area, she decided to do some training. Kathryn embarked on the OCN Leve 6 Holistic Sleep Coaching course. Her sleep support is not sleep training, it is not about teaching babies how to sleep or leaving them to cry to “self settle”. It is evidenced based support for the whole family to learn about realistic sleep expectations, ways to maximise parental sleep and tweaks to help baby consolidate their sleep. Continuing to breastfeed and bed share is supported. Absolutely no leaving babies to cry, or controlled crying. Responsive parenting is a passion.
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