Feeding your baby can be hard! Whether you’re breastfeeding, pumping or bottle feeding - you don’t have to do it alone. We want to help you. We bring lactation support into your home. No judgement, no guilt, just support.
HomeGrown Lactation Services
Our Services
Initial Home Visit
Help with breastfeeding in your home. Whether it is a specific challenge or just wanting reassurance that you are on the right path. We visit you in your home to address those concerns. Each visit is approximately 60 minutes and includes a weight check, weighted feeding, latch check, oral assessment, flange fit and a personalized feeding plan. We want to assure you and your baby are thriving, not just surviving on your breastfeeding journey.
Follow up Visit
Continued follow up care to assess care plan progress and help achieve those breastfeeding goals.
Virtual Visits
A virtual 30 min consultation to address any concerns regarding breastfeeding, pumping or bottle feeding.
Prenatal Home Visit
Lets prepare together! One on one home visit preparing and learning what to expect post delivery and all things breastfeeding. We’ll go over positions, feeding basics, what to expect those first few days and much more! We’ll even get you fitted for flanges and discuss pump options. After a prenatal we love to plan for within a week of delivery follow-up to optimize breastfeeding success! Each appointment is 60 min.
Bundle and Add-on Packages
Ask us about our bundle package for out of pocket payors. We also offer add on text and call package options .
We accept insurance
We accept insurance
We accept BCBS PPO plans as well as UHC/UMR plans. Contact us to get a custom link to fill out a pre-approved applicaton.
get to know us
Hi!!!
My name is Brenda! I have my Bachelors in Nursing and I’m an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.
I’m a Minnesota native but have put my roots down here in central Iowa after attending Simpson College for my degrees in Biology and Spanish and Allen College for my degree in Nursing. I am married to my wonderful husband, Corey and we have two sweet and silly little boys, 4yrs and 13 months! I love being a boy mama! I’ve just learned to embrace the chaos! :)
I have been a registered nurse since 2018 and a lactation consultant since 2020. On top of seeing moms and babes in their homes I hold a position as a lactation consultant in a hospital in the Des Moines area where my career started. I have been independently seeing clients in their homes since 2024. I love the flexibility of being able to practice independently as it allows me the time to be a mom, wife and do what I love!
If I’m not helping with breastfeeding you can find me baking sourdough, drinking an iced coffee, embroidering something cute for my kiddos or just hanging out with the fam!
It’s an honor to be able to help all moms and babes accomplish their breastfeeding goals. As a woman of color it has become a passion of mine to give other women of color the care and support they so much deserve and need!
My special interests are: prenatals, pumping and flange fitting, tongue ties, extended breastfeeding and baby led weaning! I’m currently breastfeeding and love to debunk all the new trends/fads when it comes to lactation!
Hello
My name is Callie and I am a nurse and an IBCLC, international board certified lactation consultant.
I graduated from Mercy College of Health Sciences in 2010, and then went on to become an IBCLC in 2020. I work at a Des Moines area hospital in their lactation department, and have held many different roles in healthcare throughout my career. I have especially enjoyed holding support groups for breast feeding families, watching these families building a community is amazing. In 2024 I added a new role as an independent IBCLC and now offer private home visits. My passion has always been woman’s health and I love empowering women by assisting them in their breastfeeding journey.
There is no judgement here as to how you have chosen to feed your baby. I am comfortable assisting families in finding their unique feeding journey, whether that is exclusively breastfeeding, pumping and bottling, or combination feeding with breast milk and formula.
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I grew up here in central Iowa, and after traveling and living around the world I decided that Iowa was the only place I wanted to raise my children. Being a mother to my two beautiful daughters, is my biggest accomplishment. I am also a proud wife to Neal and we welcomed or first grandson in 2023, watching his little soul emerge has been both a pleasure and a privilege.
My why:
My first experience studying lactation came in 2018, I was working as a perinatal nurse and was asked if I wanted to become CLC, certified lactation counselor, I went and spent a week in Phoenix and fell in love with a new career. The amount of knowledge that was packed into that week was absolutely life changing. I began helping the mothers and newborns on the unit where I was working, I had one mom and baby that just hadn’t found their groove yet. Baby was fussy at the breast mom couldn’t get comfortable, they were struggling. I told her I would stop after my shift, so she didn’t have to feel hurried. I came in and had mom do some skin to skin while she and I chatted, the baby wanted to move towards the nipple so I had mom help her, and just like that baby self attached. Mom looked down at her baby and smiled and I got to watch her fall in love with her baby. It was such a wonderful feeling, I knew it was the thing I wanted to do for the rest of my career. Holding space for parents and babies and assisting them in finding the path that is right for their family.
Self Pay Prices
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$175
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$175
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$160
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$75
Contact Us
Interested in working together? Fill out some info and one of us will be in touch shortly. Can’t wait to meet you!
~ Brenda & Callie ~
