Services Offered by Sylvia Boyd - www.mybreastfeeding.com

www.mybreastfeeding.com: The website of Sylvia J. Boyd, PT, LCCE, IBCLC, CLE, Lamaze certified childbirth educator and lactation consultant. Her specialty is in using her physical therapy skills to help babies latch-on & breastfeed successfully since 1967. She also enjoys teaching several Prenatal Classes in Hayward, CA.

Better Birth and Breastfeeding Solutions:

Services Offered by Sylvia Boyd

For the past 40 years, Sylvia Boyd has been teaching childbirth classes privately and in local hospitals in the East Bay, touching the lives of well over 6,000 babies so far. Since attaining her Physical Therapy degree from UC San Francisco, she has continued to expand her credentials as a Lamaze instructor and lactation consultant.

Sylvia has a passion for helping parents prepare for an active role in the birth of their baby. For optimal health and well being, Sylvia also teaches mothers the skills for enjoying nurturing their infant at the breast. She has the special education, tools and training needed to assist mothers and babies with any problems that might arise. Her pragmatic and empowering approach to birthing and breastfeeding get new families off to a healthy start!

NEWS: Sylvia is now available to speak in the Bay Area on

"The Effect of Birth on Breastfeeding – How We Can Affect the Outcome".

Click here to schedule this popular 2-hour symposium for all those wanting to provide an optimal birth and breastfeeding experience for mother and baby.

BIRTHING CHOICES: Lamaze Classes

¨ Lamaze education enables couples to become confident adults, courageous to choose normal birth.

· Know your choices in labor, delivery and breastfeeding.

· Learn special skills and positions to increase your comfort.

· Practice techniques that minimize pain.

· Gain knowledge of positions that enhance the baby’s comfort.

· Discover how birth impacts the baby’s alertness and abilities.

· Explore birthing positions.

· Realize the body’s natural ability to cope.

· For more details see What I Learned in Sylvia's Lamaze Class

· Note: Sylvia’s class featured in the Baby Blues comic strip

Sylvia is teaching Lamaze classes for expectant parents in two locations:

¨ St. Rose Hospital in Hayward. Classes fill up quickly - register early with Community Education Department. Call 510-264-4068.

· Classes are free if you deliver at St. Rose or $95 if delivering elsewhere.

· Classes meet for 6 weeks on Wednesdays from 7:00 to 9:30 pm
in the St. Joseph Pavilion Classrooms near St. Rose Hospital.
(The Classrooms are on the Calaroga Avenue side of the hospital campus, at the 4th driveway, if going north from Tennyson Rd.)
For directions click here.

· For a 2008 schedule of classes, click: St. Rose Lamaze Schedule.

¨ At Kaiser Hayward Sylvia teaches several more Lamaze classes on Tuesday and Friday evenings and during the day on Saturdays. People delivering in other hospitals also may attend, space permitting.

· The cost is $58 for Kaiser members, $101 for non-members,
$15 Alameda Alliance.

· Call 510-784-4531 to register for the 6-week class that best fits your due date and schedule.

· For a 2008 schedule of classes, click: Kaiser Lamaze Schedule.

· For a map to Kaiser Hayward, click: Map.
Sylvia's Lamaze classes are usually held in the hospital in C 3. That is the third conference room out from the hospital cafeteria. If they are relocated, they are generally moved across the street to the Sleepy Hollow medical office building upstairs in M 3. Typically, members will be called and a sign will be posted if any last minute room changes occur. Members can also call the Kaiser-Hayward Health Education Center at 784-4531 if questions come up. Check the posted class schedule. It is posted outside C 1 as well as in the Medical Office Building on the wall between M 1 and M 2.

BREASTFEEDING: Lactation Consults

¨ Serving as a physical therapist who uses her therapy training to help babies latch successfully and nurse efficiently, Sylvia specializes in helping babies who can’t latch, can’t nurse both breasts, or cause the mother pain when nursing.

· Help with baby weight loss or weight gain, inconsolable crying, biting or jaundice.

· Help with cracked and bleeding nipples, painful nursing, or milk supply issues.

· Help with yeast and thrush

· Introducing ways to incorporate breastfeeding into your return to work.

· Hospital grade breast pumps and replacement parts are available for rent or purchase.

· Breastfeeding accessories available.

¨ Check with your health insurance to see if lactation consultations are a part of your coverage. Mothers who are insured through the Alameda Alliance for Health have very generous allowances for breastfeeding consultations from covered providers like Sylvia. Hill Physicians Medical Group often covers lactation consultations if mom gets preauthorization for the consultation from her physician.

¨ Sylvia has an office in south Hayward where she works with moms and babies giving individual breastfeeding help. Appointments may be available on short notice, holidays, or weekends. To schedule an appointment with Sylvia call (510) 538-3679 or (510) 881-5348 or send an e-mail to Sylvia@Boyd.com.

PARENTING SUPPORT

¨ Sylvia leads a free MOMMY & ME group for moms and babies, and covers topics such as breastfeeding, crying, and sleeping issues.
She offers support for various parenting concerns and help for those returning to work.

· The group will meet on most Fridays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Click here to view the upcoming dates.

· Most meetings will be in the St. Joseph Pavilion Classrooms near
St. Rose Hospital in Hayward. The classrooms are located on the Calaroga Avenue side of the hospital campus, at the 4th driveway,
(if going north from Tennyson Rd.) For directions click here.

· Occasionally, they will be on the first floor of St. Rose Hospital in the board room.

· Call (510) 538-3679 or (510) 264-4044 for location.

BREAST PUMPS AND MORE

¨ Rentals: Ameda Lact-E pumps, and the Medela Classic and Symphony pumps.

¨ Sales:

· Ameda Purely Yours pump

· Pump in Style Original, to be used with hospital kit

· Nurture 3 pump from Bailey Medical

· Manual pumps

· Physical therapy exercise balls and magnetic massager (comfort during pregnancy and great for baby calming)

· Deluxe Hugster nursing pillow

· Many parenting and breastfeeding books

¨ Parts:
Kits and parts for Medela, Ameda and the Nurture 3 breast pumps

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Sylvia in the Media

Praise for Sylvia’s

Classes

“I forgot to thank you for your emphasis on skin-to-skin in the childbirth class. It helped me help my baby to latch on and start breastfeeding after 2 weeks of bottle feeding!!”

Thanks a ton!

-Meghana

“I attended your Lamaze class last month. My baby was born on New Year's Day, two weeks before his due date. I used the techniques learned from your class during my labor, including the ball, a big fat catalog like a phone book, and the side of the bed to move my pelvic. These exercises helped the process immensely. I was able to turn the baby from posterior to the right position. Toward the end of the labor, the midwife was surprised that my cervix was dilated from
4 cm to 8 cm within one hour. I am so glad that I followed your instruction. THANK YOU
VERY MUCH!”

Cheers,

Amica

“What you did for me is really priceless and I am so thankful that there are people like you out there helping mommies like myself.”

Gratefully yours,

Glenara and baby Brandon

“Sylvia helped me with each of my three children. She is knowledgeable and compassionate in her desire to help women grow healthy strong and beautiful babies.”

Susan RN, BSN
Labor & Delivery Nurse

I loved taking Sylvia Boyd's Lamaze class. I liked her humorous and straightforward style. It was because of her descriptions of what a baby's position should feel like that I realized my first baby was breach.

I will never forget her help and advice. After trying acupuncture and trying to turn my first baby nothing worked. Solomon was born Caesarean and I had 2 successful VBACs (vaginal birth after caesarean) after this. Imagine my delight when my third was born breach!!!

thanks,

Rachel

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