Get the latch you deserve

Fix My Latch Online Course

A deep latch is essential

When latching your baby at the breast to nurse, ensuring a deep latch is not only important for your comfort, but also for the effectiveness of the feeding. Baby must be latched deeply to remove milk well. Removing milk well must happen for baby to grow, and for your milk supply to flourish. It all starts with the foundation of a great latch.

Latching is one of those things that can look so easy and yet when you go to do it with your new baby it can be very much NOT easy. Their mouths are so little and it’s all so new. Even if you’ve nursed before, it’s a new little one and a new experience with each child.

Latching is a 2 person game. It’s not 100% up to you to make it work. Your baby has a role to play as well— a big one actually.

This course dives into both sides of the story— your role of understanding positioning and proper latching technique with tips to try when things are tricky, and baby’s role— namely their tongue and mouth function.

It takes two

Learn proper positioning and latch technique

Learn how to position yourself and your little one and the steps to achieving a deep, comfortable, effective latch.

Demos with a real life nursing mother and baby

Nothing can replace seeing the real thing in real time. This course demonstrates latching with a real baby and mother for optimal learning.

Approach baby’s latch from tongue to toes

Latching issues need a holistic approach, including working on tension in baby’s body and working on their oral function. This online course covers both.

Tips and tricks

Latching is often not straight forward and we can run into challenges that require some creativity. Learn some key strategies for latching your little one when you encounter things like engorgement, large breasts, a little one that won’t open wide, a sleepy baby, and more.

Conservative options first

Sometimes latching issues are more complex, and can include things like tongue tie. Even in these situations, optimizing positioning and latching technique, and helping relieve body tension and improve oral function before moving on to tongue tie release can be very helpful. This course demonstrates techniques for addressing tension in your baby’s body and improving oral function that can be done at home, at your discretion. It is ideal to have 1:1 care with a skilled professional for things like body tension and oral function issues, but for many families this is not accessible. That is why I created this online course, so you can start making progress today.

Gain confidence and comfort with latching your little one

A little education goes a long way. Set yourself up for comfort and success by investing time and effort into practices to support your baby’s latch, and in turn, your entire breastfeeding journey.

Let me show you how!

Get Started

This online course contains short video modules that you can work through at your own pace. Videos are a combination of narrated video demonstration, talk-to-camera educational moments, and illustration of techniques using a model. Each video is about 5 minutes long, or less, and has closed caption capability.

What’s inside:

Module 1: Latch Basics

Positioning
How to latch
C and U holds
Flipple technique
Football hold
Tips and tricks

Module 2: Body Tension

Tension intro
Daily rhythms
Reset
Neck extension
More movement

Module 3: Oral Exercises

Oral function intro
Resting tongue posture
Oral exercises
Suck training
Tongue Lifts

By Sara Wilson, PA-C, CLC

Certified Lactation Counselor, Women’s Health Physician Assistant, Mother of 3, and Owner of Made to Mother Lactation, LLC.

I know first hand how challenging breastfeeding can be and that pregnancy and postpartum is such a transformative and vulnerable time in a woman’s life.

Between my 3 girls, I have 3 years (and counting) of experience with nursing and pumping, including juggling breastfeeding and working full-time in medicine.

I have personally navigated pain with nursing, using a nipple shield, reflux and food protein intolerances, body tension and torticollis, tongue tie, and supplementation.

Through all I’ve experienced personally and my professional expertise caring for women as a PA since 2017 + supporting breastfeeding mothers as a CLC since 2021, I created the Fix My Latch course to serve breastfeeding mothers like you.

“A newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breastfeeding satisfies all three.”

-Dr. Grantly Dick-Read