Training and Experience
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
In 2021 I achieved certification as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, IBCLC. My experience includes years as a volunteer breastfeeding mentor and providing clinical inpatient and outpatient lactation services for families at Lewis Gale Montgomery Hospital from 2021-2024.
I am deeply committed to providing inclusive, family-centered care that helps you meet YOUR goals.I have worked with families with a variety of needs including exclusive exclusive pumping, dual feeding, oral dysfunction and ties, pregnancy loss, relactation, suppressing lactation & weaning. The breastfeeding experience is deep and broad, sometimes easy, sometimes very difficult and sometimes right in the middle.
Certified Professional Midwife (CPM)
I completed my midwifery training at the MEAC accredited midwifery school and birth clinic, Maternidad La Luz, in El Paso, Texas in 2011. In our busy clinic we provided bilingual prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care including pap exams, counseling and birth preparation classes.In 2016 I completed certification for Hypnobirthing with the Leclaire Method. As of 2020, I have had the joy and honor of attending over 300 births as a midwife and doula. In 2021 I decided to retire from birth-work and focus instead on my love for supporting families in the postpartum.
My experience includes:
- Breastfeeding difficulties
- Supplementary Nursing Systems
- Flat/inverted nipples
- Nipple shields
- Supply issues
- Delayed lactation
- Lactating and going back to work
- Lactation advocacy
- Medications and lactation
- Relactation
- Nipple confusion/bottle preference
- Premature/SGA lactation
- Engorgement
- Weight gain issues
- Delayed cord clamping
- Father catches
- Sibling involvement
- Skin to skin and Kangaroo care
- Spinning babies positioning techniques
- Natural pain relief
- Hypnobirthing
- Massage in labor
- Rebozo
- Aromatherapy
- Upright birth
- Laboring in water and waterbirth
- Vaginal birth with epidural
- Labor induction
- Cesarean birth
- Placenta encapsulation
- Gestational Diabetes
- Posterior labor, back labor and malpresentation
- Prodromal labor
- Preterm labor
- Teen pregnancy
- Unexpected outcomes
- Rebozo
- Accupressure for labor
- TOLAC, VBAC and HBVAC
- Breast crawl and the golden hour
- Breastfeeding challenges
- Postpartum healing
- Belly binding
Tara Daystar lives with her sweet family in Floyd, VA on a little homestead with 2 dogs, one cat and some chickens. She is grateful for her husband’s support and her son’s enthusiasm when it comes to her work.
One of her favorite things about working with families is getting to connect in a unique way with so many beautiful and diverse individuals. Her goal is to facilitate safe spaces for parents to learn, connect with their babies and find their strength and joy in the parenting experience.
New River Lactation is proud to be a SOLAR POWERED BUSINESS!
