Working document
The home visit close-out checklist
A practical sequence for a private practice lactation visit that ends with the note closed, the plan sent and the referral out, before you turn the key.
Free resources
Resources for private practice lactation consultants
Free tools and plain guidance for the parts of a home visit practice that nobody trained you for: the fee, the route, the charting and the software choice.
Clinical training prepares you for the feed. It does not prepare you for pricing a visit across a metro area, deciding whether to credential with a commercial plan, or picking software that was mostly designed for clinics with waiting rooms. These resources fill that gap with numbers you can check and sequences you can run tomorrow.
Everything here is free and none of it requires a LatchDesk account. The calculators run in your browser, the checklist is a working document for the visit bag, and the comparisons are written as fit questions so you can rule LatchDesk out quickly if your practice is shaped differently.
Free tools
Calculators for a home visit lactation practice
Two free tools that answer the questions that decide whether a private practice holds together: what an hour on the road actually earns, and how many families you can honestly fit in a day.
Comparisons
LatchDesk compared with the tools IBCLCs actually shortlist
LatchDesk is built around one home visit and the written feeding plan a parent holds before you drive away, so every comparison here is really a question about how much clinic you need standing behind that visit.
Main guide
What are the documentation mistakes that turn a good consult into a malpractice problem?
It settles what belongs in a lactation home visit record, who receives a copy of it, and when each part has to be written.
Magazine
The Visit Bag
Reporting on the craft, economics and regulation of private practice lactation consulting in American homes.
About
Who writes all of this
Who writes The Visit Bag and builds LatchDesk, for consultants who want to know whose experience of the drive, the couch and the two week weight curve sits behind these checklists before they use them.
Keep the material, judge the software after
The calculators and the close-out checklist stay free whether or not a LatchDesk account ever exists in your name. If working through them leaves you looking hard at the hour of lactation charting that sits between the last family of the day and bedtime, that is the specific hour this software exists to remove. A demo starts with one of your own home visits rather than a slide.