For Professional Caring Support on your Feeding Journey
at Tongue-Tie Northwest
Supporting Your Feeding Journey
High Quality Evidence Based Care
Empowering & Confidence Building
Individual Packages of Care
Working in Partnership with You
Why Choose Us?
By choosing us to provide your care you will not only benefit from our qualifications as international board certified lactation consultants (IBCLCs) and tongue tie practitioners, but also from the wealth of experience and expertise we bring with being a qualified midwife, a qualified health visitor and having both spent time in NHS infant feeding leadership roles. Being registered healthcare professionals you can rest assured that we both work within the NMC code of practice and uphold our professional standards.
We have come together with the purpose of providing a fully holistic and family centred service so when you take a look at our pricing structure you will find no individual services, only packages of care encompassing aftercare with face to face follow up appointment as standard. Experience has taught us the value and importance of having these follow up appointments in place and the importance of new parents feeling well supported is well documented. Please contact us if you do not find a package of care that meets your needs, we are happy to discuss individualised packages of care.
We are able to offer appointments both in a clinic setting or in your home (dependant on location) and although we prefer to see you face to face we are happy to arrange telephone or virtual consultations, where appropriate, to suit your needs.
We have an excellent network of professionals to whom we can refer for services complimentary to ours such as cranial osteopathy.
LAURA EVANS
IBCLC, Tongue-Tie Practitioner,
Registered Nurse and Health Visitor
About
I qualified as a Specialist Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) in 2005 and have worked within Infant Feeding Specialist roles in the NHS since 2014. In 2017 I completed my Diploma in Breastfeeding and in 2018 I achieved my life-long ambition and qualified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). In 2020 I furthered my education and trained as a tongue tie practitioner with Southampton University. I have a wealth of experience supporting families who are facing complex feeding challenges such as tongue tie, faltering growth or medical conditions. I understand that every feeding journey may look different and I always strive to provide holistic, individualised care to every family I support.
In my spare time I volunteer with The National Childbirth Trust (NCT). I am also a committee member with The Association of Tongue Tie Practitioners ( ATP) which enables me to keep up to date with the latest research in infant feeding and tongue tie.
Qualifications
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and member of Lactation Consultants of Great Britain (LCGB)
- Tongue-tie practitioner and member of The Association of Tongue-Tie Practitioners (ATP)
- Registered Nurse and Health Visitor with experience of supporting families with infant feeding since 2005
Specialty
Wealth of experience as a Breastfeeding Specialist within the NHS and private practice
CQC
SHARON HOLLMAN
IBCLC, Tongue-Tie Practitioner,
Registered Midwife
About
I registered as a midwife in 2008 and found what I believed to be my niche when I commenced in post as a community midwife in 2010, where I was able to learn more and further develop skills in supporting families with infant feeding.
In 2015 my youngest son was born, my third difficult breastfeeding journey with tongue-tie diagnosed and divided at 3 weeks of age. I decided at this point that I would specialise in lactation consultancy and tongue tie division.
Prior to launching Tongue-Tie Northwest I worked in an NHS specialist infant feeding post whilst doing the Breastfeeding London Lactation Consultant Course, which gave me invaluable knowledge and experience of working with families with complex feeding difficulties and gave me the ability to underpin my practice with evidence based theory. I completed the Advanced Skills in the Management of Ankyloglossia (Tongue Tie Division) course at the University of Wolverhampton and consolidated my skills in a busy NHS clinic.
Laura Evans (the other half of Tongue-Tie Northwest) and I have become firm friends as well as business partners. Tongue-Tie Northwest was born of the realisation that we have the same vision for the provision of appropriate and timely infant feeding support in private practice and both value the importance of aftercare.
Qualifications
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and member of Lactation Consultants of Great Britain (LCGB)
- Tongue-tie practitioner and member of The Association of Tongue-Tie Practitioners (ATP)
- Registered Midwife with experience of supporting families with infant feeding in my role since 2008
Specialty
Wealth of experience as a Breastfeeding Specialist within the NHS and private practice
