Advanced Lactation Care - Jennifer Gerard, FNP, IBCLC

Advanced Lactation Care - Jennifer Gerard, FNP, IBCLC Evidence-informed postpartum recovery and lactation education for healthcare professionals and families.

Personalized lactation medicine services, clinical resources, patient education, and the Recovery Systems™ framework to support confident care.

Postpartum concerns rarely exist in isolation.Fatigue, healing, stress, immune function, and lactation demands can overl...
08/22/2026

Postpartum concerns rarely exist in isolation.

Fatigue, healing, stress, immune function, and lactation demands can overlap—making it helpful to step back and consider the broader recovery picture.

I created this free Postpartum Recovery Quick Reference for lactation professionals as a simple, practical introduction to the five recovery systems I use when thinking about maternal recovery:
• Energy
• Healing & Restoration
• Stress & Adaptation
• Immune Regulation
• Lactation Demand

Inside, you'll find key questions for each system, a quick clinical pause, patterns to notice, and reminders for supporting families within lactation scope.

It's designed to be something you can save, print, and keep nearby for quick reference.

Download it free at: https://www.advancedlactationcare.com/postpartum-recovery-quick-reference

Jennifer Gerard, MSN, APRN, IBCLC
Advanced Lactation Care

08/02/2026

Over the past several months, Advanced Lactation Care has been growing in an exciting new direction...

While I'll continue offering a limited number of personalized lactation medicine consultations, my primary focus is expanding evidence-informed postpartum recovery and lactation education for both families and healthcare professionals.

You'll see more:
💕 Parent education
🩺 Clinical guides and tools
📚 Educational blog content
🌿 Recovery Systems™ resources

My goal has always been to help families thrive. Creating educational resources allows me to extend that support beyond one-on-one consultations and reach even more parents and clinicians.

Thank you for being part of this journey—I can't wait to share what's coming next!

Explore the growing library of evidence-informed postpartum recovery and lactation resources at www.advancedlactationcare.com.

✨ It's Here! The Recovery Systems Clinical Toolkit is officially available! ✨Clinical practice is about more than identi...
07/29/2026

✨ It's Here! The Recovery Systems Clinical Toolkit is officially available! ✨

Clinical practice is about more than identifying symptoms—it's about recognizing patterns, prioritizing care, and knowing where to start.

That's exactly why I created the Recovery Systems Clinical Toolkit.

Designed for IBCLCs, nurse practitioners, and postpartum clinicians, this toolkit gives you practical, ready-to-use resources to support clinical reasoning and confident decision-making.

Inside you'll find:�
✔️ Recovery Systems Assessment�
✔️ Pattern Quick Reference�
✔️ Clinical Pearls�
✔️ Follow-up Timeline�
✔️ Printable tools for everyday practice

Whether you're supporting complex postpartum recovery, low milk supply, or navigating multisystem presentations, these resources are designed to make clinical thinking more organized, efficient, and actionable.

I'm incredibly proud of this resource and grateful to everyone who has encouraged me along the way. I can't wait to see how you use it in your practice!

🩵 Available now in my Etsy shop.�🔗 https://jennybeedigital.etsy.com

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Today I'm incredibly excited to share something I've been working on for many months.✨ The Postpartum Recovery Systems G...
07/24/2026

Today I'm incredibly excited to share something I've been working on for many months.

✨ The Postpartum Recovery Systems Guide is officially available!

As a Family Nurse Practitioner and IBCLC, I've cared for countless postpartum families who felt like something just wasn't adding up. Many were doing everything they could, yet still struggled with fatigue, slow recovery, stress, or persistent breastfeeding challenges.

Over time, I realized that looking at these concerns through isolated symptoms wasn't always enough. I wanted a framework that helped clinicians step back, recognize patterns, and better understand how postpartum recovery systems interact.

That idea became The Postpartum Recovery Systems Guide.

This first edition includes:
• A practical Recovery Systems Framework
• Recovery Roadmap for clinical assessment
• Recovery system overviews
• Clinical reasoning tools
• Clinical application cases
• Quick-reference resources for practice

My hope is that this resource helps healthcare professionals feel more confident supporting postpartum families and encourages thoughtful, recovery-focused conversations.

Creating this guide has been a true labor of love, and seeing it finally published is incredibly meaningful.

Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me throughout this project.

✨ It's officially available now in my Etsy shop at https://jennybeedigital.etsy.com

I can't wait to hear what you think.

Final touches. ☕️💻The pages are nearly complete, the details are being refined, and every section has been reviewed with...
07/23/2026

Final touches. ☕️💻

The pages are nearly complete, the details are being refined, and every section has been reviewed with one goal in mind: creating a resource that's practical, evidence-informed, and easy to use in real clinical practice.

Almost ready to share. I'm excited for you to see it!

Some of the most frustrating postpartum symptoms aren't random. They're patterns.Fatigue that won't lift.Milk supply tha...
07/17/2026

Some of the most frustrating postpartum symptoms aren't random. They're patterns.

Fatigue that won't lift.
Milk supply that won't respond.
Brain fog.
Slow healing.
Feeling like your body just isn't bouncing back.

Too often, these are treated as separate problems instead of connected pieces of the same picture.

That's exactly why I created this guide.

It walks through the major recovery systems that support postpartum healing, explains how they work together, and helps clinicians recognize when the body is asking for support—not just more time.

Because postpartum recovery deserves more than "everything looks normal."

Coming soon. 🤍

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📢 We're on Instagram!📷 We'll be sharing our latest updates, announcements and educational content on Instagram moving fo...
01/02/2026

📢 We're on Instagram!

📷 We'll be sharing our latest updates, announcements and educational content on Instagram moving forward.

👉🏼Follow us at to stay connected! Thanks for being here - see you on IG!

Limited hours for the next two weeks but we do have some appointment availability! Book now to secure your telehealth sp...
12/17/2025

Limited hours for the next two weeks but we do have some appointment availability! Book now to secure your telehealth spot and regular hours will resume 1/5/26!

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