I’m passionate about helping new parents reach their feeding goals, whether it's exclusively latching, exclusively pumping, combination feeding, and anywhere in-between. Having personally faced perinatal mental health challenges, I understand the importance of prioritizing your mental well-being throughout the process.

Now seeing clients 7 days a week at my new Maplewood, NJ office!

Book with your Cigna, Aetna, United Health, or Blue Cross Blue Shield insurance.

I do not travel to NYC or Hudson County.

Also available for limited home visits within 20-minutes drive from Hillsborough: Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays - book here through Branchburg Lactation

The Office

Maplewood, NJ 07040

What can I help you with?

Pumping & flange sizing
Latch & positioning
Feeding assessment with weighted feeds
Nipple pain
Undersupply & oversupply
Engorgement
Plugged ducts & mastitis

Introducing bottles
Bottle refusal
Returning to work
Creating a stash
Weaning
Introducing formula
Starting solid food

PLUS, prenatal services including:

Breastfeeding education
Preparing for your hospital experience
Selecting feeding items for your registry

Office visits

Via insurance: $0
- Aetna
- Cigna/Wildflower - Please complete this form and mark it urgent before booking.
- United Healthcare or Blue Cross Blue Shield via TLN - Please complete this form and mark it urgent before booking.
Self-pay: initial $300, follow-up $200
Book here.

Home visits

Available on a limited basis:

Via insurance: $100 home visit fee + a travel fee of $2/minute over a 20-minute drive from 07040.
- Cigna/Wildflower - Please complete this form before booking.
- United Healthcare or Blue Cross Blue Shield via TLN - Please complete this form before booking.
Via Aetna: no additional fees
Self-pay: $400 + a travel fee of $2/minute over a 20-minute drive from 07040.
Please text me at 973-310-2884 if you'd like to set up an in-home appointment.

The Lactation Network

If you have a Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO plan, United HealthCare, or any plan with the Multiplan or PNOA logo and Lactation Network approves you, up to 6 visits are covered 100% with more potentially available with approval.
If you have one of the aforementioned insurance carriers, please complete this form first, marking it as urgent. Upon receiving a confirmation, then text me at 973-310-2884.

BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT

WHY WORK WITH DANIELLE?

My bona fides

My personal philosophy as a lactation consultant:
- Your baby is YOUR baby and you are my client. Unfortunately, there are lactation consultants who give us a bad reputation, making families feel that direct latching and exclusive breastfeeding is the only acceptable way to feed a baby. I am here to support you, your goals, and what is best for your family, not mine.
- As a lactation consultant, I believe that every family is unique and deserves personalized support. My goal is to provide you with information and clinical care so that you can make the best decisions for your family.

Education:
- I am clinically trained by Carmen Baker Clark, one of New Jersey's top IBCLCs, with over 20 years of experience in breastfeeding support and care. She is an expert on Tethered Oral Tissues (tongue, lip, and buccal ties).
- I hold a Bachelor of Arts from Hampshire College in psychology and sociology, and a Master of Public Health with a focus on community health education from Montclair State University.
- The majority of my graduate-level and professional writing focused on lactation and maternal-infant health.
- I have attended over 250 hours of continuing education in lactation training.
Professional:
- I provided hospital-based clinical lactation care at three New Jersey hospitals for six and a half years, where I worked with over 1,000 babies in their Labor & Delivery, Obstetrics, and the NICU (Level 2 & 3) units.
- While at University Hospital in Newark, NJ, I regularly lectured to medical students and residents.
- I have been in private practice since 2016, where I have served 200+ families.
- Between 2022 and 2024, I served as the NJ WIC State Breastfeeding Coordinator.
Life experience:
- I exclusively breastfed my children, my daughter (now in college) for 23 months, and my son (now in high school) for 4 1/2 years.
- I experienced prenatal depression and severe postpartum anxiety with both of my children so I know firsthand what living with perinatal mood disorder feels like.

I provide a unique service.

Drawing on my extensive clinical hospital experience, I’ve developed a specialized telehealth prenatal consultation to help you prepare for your hospital experience and the early days with your baby. Many parents are caught off guard by various conditions and hospital interventions that can disrupt breastfeeding or chestfeeding, so proactive guidance is crucial. I encourage you to take advantage of this unique service; I’m confident you’ll find it incredibly valuable.

This consultation covers potential complications that may arise or directly affect:

Birthing parent:

induction
c-section (planned, emergency, etc.)
diabetes or gestational diabetes (baby is more prone to low blood sugar)
hypertension, gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, or eclampsia
PCOS and/or thyroid issues
prior breast surgery
prior breast/chestfeeding difficulty

Baby:

preterm birth (especially very preterm)
baby is small (SGA), large for size (LGA), or restricted growth (IUGR)
baby has low blood sugar or jaundice
baby is very sleepy after circumcision
baby has tongue and/or lip tie
a few hours of separation from your baby for observation
NICU admission
baby remains at the hospital, and the birthing parent is discharged

I recommend that the birthing person’s partner or support person also attend the consultation.

To get started, please email me at danielle@maplewoodlactation.com.