“ So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep, I’m rocking my baby. Babies don’t keep.”
-Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
About
Hi, I’m Cass.
I have two boys who I tandem fed until 4.5 years old and 18 months old. My boys have multiple food allergies, and I breastfed them on an elimination diet. My first son, I fed on a 4 food TED (Total Elimination Diet) for 18 months, and we’ve gradually introduced new foods. We are proof that breastfeeding children with allergies is possible.
They both had tongue ties too!
These challenges have taught me a lot both as a mother and an IBCLC. The positive is that there isn’t much that I don’t have personal or professional experience with.
I am a Registered Nurse and Midwife. I started working in 2007 as a midwife in the postnatal ward in one of the tertiary referral hospitals in Melbourne and, in 2009, completed further study in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing.
From 2009 I was privileged to care for some of the smallest and sickest babies in our state. From there, my interest in supporting mothers grew, and in 2013 I sat the IBCLC exam.
I am passionate about breastfeeding, normal infant sleep and identifying abnormal sleep in babies, toddlers and children. My eldest son’s experiences lead me to complete extra training and become an Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist.
You might wonder what Myofunctional therapy is?
– It’s a program of exercises designed to help restore normal function and coordination of the face, tongue, and airway muscles.
Completing the OMT course compliments my IBCLC work and interest in airways and sleep.
In 2019, with a group of like-minded women, we founded the Facebook support group – The Breastfeeding Co-operative Australia.
Hi, I’m Shae.
I’m a mother to 3 tiny humans, 2 boys 8 and 5 years and a 3 ½ year old girl. Both boys breastfed for nearly 2 years and my daughter only recently weaned.
My breastfeeding journey has included an oversupply of breastmilk, several bouts of mastitis and 2 out of 3 children treated for tongue ties! These struggles I have endured as a mother have greatly attributed to the health professional I am today.
I am a Registered Nurse and I started my career in 2005 working at one of the major tertiary hospitals in Melbourne and in 2008 completed further study in Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing.
From then on I was honoured to be able to provide care to the smallest and most vulnerable baby’s and their families. After several years of working in the fast-paced Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, I moved on to work for the next following 4 years in the community as a Neonatal Hospital in the Home Nurse. I have most recently been working in a Level 2 Special Care Nursery closer to home.
My desire to further support mother’s led me to sit the IBCLC exam in 2017.
I am passionate about breastfeeding and the issues that can interfere with the breastfeeding dyad in particularly the effects of oral restrictions, with my main focus of gently empowering women through their personal journey.
Our Practice is mobile
So we come to you in the comfort of your home. Our home bases are Langwarrin & Frankston South, but we are happy to travel to most areas. Our goal is to support you with the kindness that every mother deserves so that you can nourish your baby with confidence.
The inspiration for the name 'Galaxy.'
Long ago, the Romans named the galaxy ‘via lactea,’ which translates to ‘road of milk.’ The Romans called it via lactea because it looks like a milky patch of sky above the earth at night. But, the Romans weren’t the first to name it galaxy. The Romans got the name from the Ancient Greeks, who called it galaxias kyklos, which translates into ‘milky circle’.
According to the Greek myth, Zeus brought his son Heracles home for Hera to breastfeed while she was sleeping. However, Hera did not like Heracles, mainly because the child was half-mortal and resulted from one of Zeus’ affairs. When Hera awoke, she quickly pushed Heracles away, which caused a few drops of milk to spill into the night sky.
Scientifically, the bright patch of light results from looking at a concentrated band of billions of different stars in our galaxy. When we look up at the night sky, we are viewing the galaxy on its side. This view creates the glowing arc of light that we know as the Milky Way galaxy.
