Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
Registered Nurse (NICU)
Infant Sleep Specialist
Early Parenting Support Nurse
Health Promotions
Personalised, non-judgemental support to help navigate parenthood your way.
In-home or Telehealth
Personalised Support In Your Own Home
At Bayside Baby Life, we provide personalised in-home and telehealth consultations with an experienced lactation consultant and sleep specialist. We support breastfeeding, bottle feeding, introducing solids, newborn sleep and settling, and early parenting and also offer personalised assessments and tailored solutions for unsettled babies and complex feeding challenges, across Melbourne’s Bayside area and beyond.
About Me - Kristy Elsayed
RN, IBCLC, Neonatal Nurse, Infant Sleep Specialist
From the moment I started neonatal nursing, over 20 years ago in one of Australia's largest NICU/Special Care Nurseries, the thing I loved the most was empowering parents with the knowledge, support and confidence in themselves, to successfully parent, the way they wanted to. I found it so rewarding watching the confidence of those families grow along with their happiness.
It wasn't until I had babies of my own, who each had their own unique feeding challenges, that I really began to understand, just how important that expert, non judgemental support was. When I finally found my own supportive expert, she saved my feeding journey, my health and really, also changed my career path.
I knew then, that I wanted to help new parents the way I had been helped and the best way I could do that, was to respect, support, empower and most of all listen to what parents needed and then provide them with individualised care and options.
So while I worked with babies and families in NICU to gain valuable nursing experience with complex neonatal conditions and cases, I also continued to further my education and profession, purely so I could support parents in a family centred, evidence based and respectful way.
As an Infant Sleep Specialist, IBCLC Lactation Consultant, Health Promotions Practitioner and Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse, I bring expertise to support you in navigating the challenges of early parenting with confidence and care.
Career Qualifications That Help Me to Help You.
- BAppSc (Nursing)
- BAppSc (Health Promotions)
- GradCert (Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing)
- International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
- Vic Gov supported Sleep & Settling Model of Care Certification
- 25 years experience in neonatal nursing
- 12 years coordinating local and international clinical trials (NICU)
- Co-author of several neonatal research publications
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Prenatal Consultation - In Home or Telehealth - Up to 2 Hours Prenatal Consultation - In Home or Telehealth - Up to 2 Hours
Prenatal Consultation - In Home or Telehealth - Up to 2 Hours
$250.00 -
IBCLC - Lactation Consultation (In-home or telehealth) IBCLC - Lactation Consultation (In-home or telehealth)
IBCLC - Lactation Consultation (In-home or telehealth)
$299.00 -
Newborn and Early Parenting Support (In-home or Telehealth) Newborn and Early Parenting Support (In-home or Telehealth)
Newborn and Early Parenting Support (In-home or Telehealth)
$299.00 -
Sleep and Settling Consultations (Initial or Follow Up / In-home or telehealth) Sleep and Settling Consultations (Initial or Follow Up / In-home or telehealth)
Sleep and Settling Consultations (Initial or Follow Up / In-home or telehealth)
$299.00 -
Bayside Baby Life Gift Card -
Hand Expressing and Electric Pump Consults (in-office consult, up to 45mins) Currently available Tuesdays Only Hand Expressing and Electric Pump Consults (in-office consult, up to 45mins) Currently available Tuesdays Only
Hand Expressing and Electric Pump Consults (in-office consult, up to 45mins) Currently available Tuesdays Only
$85.00 -
Antenatal Colostrum Expressing Consult (in-office consult, 45mins) Currently available Tuesdays Only Antenatal Colostrum Expressing Consult (in-office consult, 45mins) Currently available Tuesdays Only
Antenatal Colostrum Expressing Consult (in-office consult, 45mins) Currently available Tuesdays Only
$85.00