Expecting Parents

Support from pregnancy through the first three months.

• Prenatal feeding consultation — We'll discuss your goals and create a plan that's specific to you and your baby.

• Birth Plan Blueprint (optional) — Together we’ll create a plan to help you prepare for labor and birth

• Four (4) reserved in-home postpartum lactation consultations with 3 months scheduling window

• Three (3) months of support via secure messaging, because questions don’t always wait for an appointment. You can reach out with questions, share updates, and get guidance between visits.

• Priority appointment scheduling

• Personalized care tailored to your feeding goals, recovery, and growing family

Your care is tailored to your baby, your feeding goals, and what’s happening in your life. We’ll cover topics including, but not limited to:

• Prepare for feeding before your baby arrives

• Review birth and postpartum experience

• Discuss feeding cues and newborn behavior

• Fine-tune latch, positioning, and feeding comfort

• Assess milk transfer and baby’s growth

• Create a personalized plan for building, protecting, or managing milk supply

• Find the right pumping and bottle-feeding approach for your family

• Navigate supplementation or combination feeding without judgment

• Assess oral function and help determine when additional evaluation may be beneficial

• Prepare for returning to work, changing feeding goals, or weaning

• Talk through the questions, worries, and “Is this normal?” moments that come with feeding a baby

You’ll leave each visit with a clearer understanding of what’s happening, a plan that feels doable, and the confidence to know what to do next.

Prenatal | Start with a plan—and a relationship.

• We’ll meet for a personalized prenatal feeding consultation to get to know each other, talk through your goals, review your health and any factors that may affect feeding, and prepare you and your partner for those important first days with your baby.

Visit One | Support for the First Days

• We’ll assess feeding, latch, positioning, and milk transfer, check baby’s weight, and create a personalized plan for the days ahead. This visit gives us the opportunity to identify concerns early and help you feel more confident.

Visit Two | Building Confidence

• We’ll check baby’s growth and feeding progress, revisit anything that came up during your first week, and fine-tune your plan based on what’s actually happening at home.

Visit Three | Growing & Adjusting

• We’ll check in on your feeding routine, address any new questions or challenges, and make sure your plan continues to work for your family. We can prepare feeding transitions on the horizon.

Visit Four | Looking Ahead

• As you settle into your new rhythm, we’ll focus on what comes next, whether that means pumping, introducing bottles, preparing to return to work, changing feeding goals, or making sure you feel ready to navigate the months ahead.

Because no two families are alike, your care is flexible. We'll determine together when each visit will be most valuable based on your baby's needs and your family's goals.

Concierge Care + Insurance
Your insurance plan may cover a large portion of lactation consultation visits. Rather than choosing between insurance-based care and personalized support, Heldwell combines both.

For in-network plans, Heldwell will bill your insurance directly for covered visits. Your package fee covers the personalized care and continuity that insurance typically doesn’t—including reserving your place on the calendar before your baby arrives, in-home visits, priority scheduling, ongoing communication between visits, and having a dedicated lactation consultant.

We’ll review your individual insurance benefits, explain what your plan may cover, and clearly outline your concierge investment and expected out-of-pocket costs before you get started.

With insurance: As low as $350

• Credit, debit, HSA and FSA card payments accepted

• Any co-pays, deductibles, or coinsurance required by your plan are billed separately

Self-pay: $1,200 

• No insurance verification or billing needed

• Superbill available upon request

• Credit, debit, HSA and FSA card payments accepted

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Travel Fees

Heldwell's service area includes Lisle, Aurora, Geneva, Oswego, Batavia, Wheaton, Montgomery, Naperville, Plainfield, St. Charles, Sugar Grove, Warrenville, North Aurora, West Chicago, Downers Grove, Illinois. Travel fees may apply for in-home visits outside these towns.