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lactation visits

Tropical Plant

Insurance & self-pay lactation care

Individual Visit Lactation Care for Growing Families ​

Our International Board Certified Lactation Consultants are committed to providing you with the highest level of expert feeding support while balancing the needs of baby with the well being of the mama/nursing parent.

 

Our  individual lactation visits are limited in availability, as we give schedule priority to Fern Foundations and SOS Rescue families. Similar to an OB appointment, this level of support happens within the appointment time. For ongoing  more comprehensive support between appointments, please see our packages. 

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Come see us at our office
in central Tacoma,
where we will do a full consult, address concerns and work together to find solutions.

Office visits

Tablet & Coffee

Stay home and get lactation support
when you need it. Great for following up on a feeding plan, preparing for returning to work, discussing a life transition or troubleshooting basic lactation difficulties.

Virtual visits

Looking for a home visit?

We only offer HOME VISITS within our package offerings

Prenatal Lactation Education

Pregnant belly

You’ll learn what nursing actually looks like biologically, why so many parents struggle despite good intentions, and how to shift your expectations away from perfection and toward confidence and adaptability. 

Not perfect feeding.

Not effortless feeding

FEARLESS FEEDING. 

Fern fearless feeding course + consult

additional feeding support

Feeding the Baby

Bottle feeding doesn't always go as planned. We can help to identify why your baby is struggling and guide you in how to help your baby build their feeding skills. You do not have to be breast/chestfeeding or lactating, all babies struggling with bottles are welcome!

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Mothers and their Baby

No matter what route your baby feeding journey has taken you on, if providing your milk has been part of it, there will come a time when that chapter is over. 

No matter when this chapter is closing for you, we want to support you through this logistical and sometimes emotional transition! 

Weaning Your baby

Payment Options
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Insurance covered lactation care

Our insurance options are PROVIDER SPECIFIC. We cannot both accept all insurance plans. Please be aware of the plans accepted when choosing your provider. Mom/nursing person & Baby are billed separately. Baby is usually covered under the Mom/nursing person's insurance for the first 30 days, and then parents decide the coverage for baby. If baby will be covered by an insurance plan that we cannot bill, a flat $75 fee will be charged per visit, or if baby's claim is not fully covered, the remaining balance will be the parent's responsibility. 

Whitney

 

Aetna

First Choice

 

United Health Care​ MUST be pre-verified at The Lactation Network. 

Cigna MUST be pre-verified at WildFlower Health

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Emily

Aetna

First Choice

 

United Health Care​ MUST be pre-verified at The Lactation Network. 

Cigna MUST be pre-verified at WildFlower Health

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For apple health & Medicaid

We are not medicaid eligible providers and cannot bill Apple Health, however we are happy to offer a 40% off discount to our regular visit fees (as listed on the BOOKING PAGE ) for office and virtual visits for those with Apple Health / Medicaid. 

Discount taken at time of visit. 

For lactation support covered by Medicaid and Apple Health visit

Step By Step for in-home services FREE to families in certain counties. 

For all other plans...

Please reach out to our administrator Kenzie 

admin@fernlactation.com

for more information about your benefits and billing out of network.

Superbill & Self Pay

We are happy to provide a Superbill that includes all the billing codes necessary for you to submit to your insurance plan for your reimbursement. You will be charged our cash price at the time of your visit. 

Ready to schedule your appointment?

​​We celebrate all families!

LGBTQIA+ welcoming & affirming.

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Office: 1310 S Union Ave, Suite B-1, Tacoma, WA 98405

Phone (call or text): (253) 780-1700

Proudly serving Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Puyallup and surrounding areas

We gratefully honor and acknowledge that we are on the traditional homelands of the Puyallup Tribe. The Puyallup people have lived on and stewarded these lands since the beginning of time, and continue to do so today. We recognize that this land acknowledgement is one small step toward true allyship and we commit to uplifting the voices, experiences, and histories of the Indigenous people of this land and beyond.

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