
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
