Lactation Consultants of Southern-& Africa (LACSA) is the professional organisation for Qualified Lactation Consultants in Southern-& Africa. 

Lactation Consultants (LCs) are members of the health care team who have a specialist knowledge of and primary focus on, breastfeeding. They are the experts whom mothers and other health professionals turn to when skilled assistance is required. 

With a focus on preventive health care, Lactation Consultants (LCs) encourage self-care, empowering parents to make their own decisions, prenatally and postnatally. LCs use a problem solving approach to provide appropriate information, recommendations and referrals.

LCs  work in a variety of settings, with a diverse population of families, women and their babies:

• hospitals

• maternity units

• home visits

• neonatal intensive care units and special care nurseries

• lactation clinics, maternal and child health services

• parenting centres

• private practice as a Lactation Consultant

• general medical practice, paediatric and obstetric practices

They may also work in other capacities: as a physician, childbirth educator, doula, midwife, nurse or other professional along with their lactation consultant skills.

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