Amrit Khalsa Lactation Services
Chiming in about Amrit Khalsa - I had the best experience with her! A wonderful, practical, warm, and compassionate lactation consultant. She does home visits and she will check in by phone and text for a week after the visit. She saw me at such a vulnerable and difficult time, and she really saved me. And later, my pediatrician said she'd never before received such thorough notes from an LC.
You'll likely get many great recommendations -- I remember being overwhelmed by the resources when I had my kids.
There are 3 people/ places that helped me tons, for different babies and different things:
1) Amrit Khalsa - she works at Bayside where we had our first pediatrician and also does home visits. https://www.amrit-lactationconsultant.com/
2) She recommended me to Then Comes Baby in Oakland, where we ended up getting a breast pump and really great IBCLC support for a different reason (and our moms group, which I soooo needed). then-comes-baby.com
3) Paula Santi -- she was so wonderful for our last baby when Then Comes Baby and Amrit were booked for a last minute urgent need. paulasanti.com
You'll likely get your needs well taken care of. Best wishes!
Amrit Khalsa is phenomenal. Saved us. Just search her name on Yelp. She’s certified. Came to our house, so so so reassuring, easy to be around, funny - 1000% recommend.
I highly recommend Amrit Khalsa. She helped me along with several other friends. She’ll come to your home and offers support via phone and text, too. She works miracles. https://www.amrit-lactationconsultant.com/
Amrit Khalsa, RN, IBCLC, is a certified lactation consultant and is amazing. I saw her through bayside medical but I believe she also does home visits.
This happened when we tried to get my son to take a bottle at 3 months. It turned out that he had a tongue tie that the doc didn't diagnose. We worked with Amrit Khalsa and she was helpful in diagnosing the tongue tie. We got it clipped but he never took to the bottle and we had to start him on solids/bone broth and liver so I could go to work. Good luck!!
I used Amrit http://www.amrit-lactationconsultant.com and highly recommend her. She is very soothing and compassionate about mom and baby. She really helped me out throughout week 1-3.
Archived Q&A and Reviews
March 2013
RE: Lactation consultant for ''low milk production''
Call Amrit Khalsa! She is so great, has been a midwife for years and is a wondeful, insightful certified lactation consultant. She does house calls. I had multiple issues nursing and fired my first lactation consultant. Amrit saved breastfeeding for us. http://www.amritkkhalsa.com/ breastfeeding mama
Sept 2011
RE: Lactation consultant in Berkeley/Oakland
I highly recommend Amrit Kaur Khalsa. She is a lactation consultant and also a midwife. She is highly experienced and super loving. We saw her through our pediatrician's office at Bayside but she also does house visits. Check out her website for more information: http://www.amritkkhalsa.com/ super important to get someone good!
I encourage you to contact Amrit Khalsa (510) 235-4878, http://www.amritkkhalsa.com. Amrit is a midwife as well as a lactation consultant so has a holistic perspective on breast feeding. She is based in the East Bay and happily conducts home visits. I attribute the fact that my daughter and I have never had any feeding related issues solely to our good fortune in working with Amrit since day one. Amrit has a warm and nurturing manner, yet has the unflinching precision and eagle-eyed attention to detail that is necessary to ensure that babies are drinking milk in a pain- free way for their mamas. She explains things clearly and is very hands on. She has guided my family through the immensely important first days of breastfeeding, helped my husband introduce the bottle, and has instructed me how to keep up my supply and how much and often to pump when I returned to work and as we began introducing solids. Amrit is tuned into the wisdom of the ages and channels all of that to her clients in a very straight-forward and grounded way.
Sept 2011
RE: Homebirth Midwife Recommendations in East Bay
I HIGHLY recommend Amrit Khalsa... She is also a lactation consultant. She delivered my son and navigated me through a difficult home birth. She has been a mid-wife in the bay are for around 35 years and is now a ''Grandma-Midwife'' (her words). She is delivering babies from the babies she has delivered. She has been a neonatal nurse as well. She does not take risks and is very conservative with your and your babies health. She is amazing! CONTACT HER NOW! http://www.amritkkhalsa.com/ Keri
July 2011
RE: Lactation services at local pediatric practices
My pediatric office, Bayside Medical Group in Oakland, has a lactation consultant. I did see her once and all I had to pay was my regular co-pay. Her first name is Amrit and she was helpful. Sorry, I cant remember her last name but if you call the office they will know who you mean. The office is at 3100 Telegraph Ave and the number is 452-5231. The practice has many doctors. laura
My two children are patients at Bayside Medical , where we get excellent pediatric care. We've also worked with an amazing lactation consultant there, Amrit Khalsa, as I had trouble with painful breastfeeding in the beginning. She was fantastic, and took the time to help me figure out what was going on with my baby's latch, what we needed to change, and also just reassured me and provided indispensable support when it seemed so hard. I don't know what i would have done without her, truly, in those first 6 weeks. I know that Bayside is now providing lactation services that are covered by insurance. Run, do not walk, and call Rebecca Dycus at Bayside at 510.452.5231 to make an appointment with Amrit. You don't have to be a current patient there. Rebecca will look into your eligibility for benefits and work with you on insurance info. You can also just call and leave a message for Amrit there. Good luck! here's to nursing!
Amrit Khalsa is an experienced lactation consultant who works with us at Bayside Medical Group in the Oakland office (3100 Telegraph, 510-452-5231). Her services are generally covered by insurance. She is a loving, positive, and reassuring presence,and her skills at helping with breastfeeding are just amazing. Some of the mothers in my practice who have seen her for help with breastfeeding were already experienced themselves (having taught breastfeeding to others or breastfed previous children) and still felt that she made a huge difference in their ability to breastfeed comfortably and successfully. I highly recommend her. Katya Gerwein, MD
Sept 2009
RE: Homebirth midwife and lacation consultant
My midwife, Amrit Kahlsa, is fantastic, with years of experience. I had a great home birth with my second child with Amrit. She's also a certified lactation consultant. Give her a call. 510-235-4878 Andi
I highly recommend our midwife and lactation consultant, Amrit Khalsa, who provided incredible, thorough prenatal and postnatal care, and support for my amazing home birth experience. Amrit has 40 years of experience with homebirth, a warm and down to earth manner, extensive knowledge of local medical providers and institutions, and brings her insight, passion for birth and babies, and holistic understanding of the processes of pregnancy, birth and postpartum to her work with families. We looked forward to our relaxed prenatal visits at home, each of which included extensive information, emotional support, engagement with our 3 year old and with both of us as expectant parents, and immediate responsiveness to the issues that we raised. My partner had more concerns about having a homebirth, and Amrit addressed each one with expertise and knowledge. She instilled the utmost confidence in her, and I felt complete trust in her going into the birth. Her presence at the birth was focused, peaceful, supportive of all who were present, and she brought the calm reassurance I needed to give birth for the first time. I can\xc3\x82\xe2\x80\x99t imagine giving birth without the close relationships she had developed with all in our family. She dealt with necessary interventions after the birth at our home with the utmost care, and went above and beyond what I would ever expect to ensure that I was healing. Amrit attends to the whole family, and because of this, our children have had such a strong start to their relationship. She provided extensive lactation support when I had some challenges in the early weeks of breastfeeding, and provided loving care for six weeks for our family. I believe she is working as a lactation consultant with Bayside Medical Practice, and she is continuing to have her homebirth and lactation consultancy practice as well. Working with Amrit made for a completely transformative and powerful birthing experience that I am so grateful for. She can be reached at 235-4878. grateful for amrit and homebirth!
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