Sam Foster

Endorsed Midwife and Lactation Consultant

RM. IBCLC. 

Sam is a kind and caring Midwife and Lactation Consultant with a passion for providing holistic, inclusive, individualised and evidence-based midwifery, infant feeding and lactation support. She aims to build her patients knowledge and skills, so they feel more confident, intuitive and empowered throughout their feeding journey. 

Sam qualified as a Midwife in England in 1997 and has experience in all areas of midwifery and lactation in both the hospital and community setting in England and Queensland. She became qualified as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) in 2012 and received her endorsement as a Midwife in 2021 which enables Sam to prescribe appropriate scheduled medicines and request appropriate pathology within her midwifery scope and provide Medicare rebates during their pregnancy and up to 6 weeks postnatally. 

Sam has a special interest in infant suck function and is accredited to perform scissor tongue-tie releases (frenotomy) for babies under 6 weeks old with tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) and feeding difficulties.  

Sam sees patients at our Fairfield and Sinnamon Park clinics as well as telehealth and phone consultations and offers home visits within 15kms of both the Fairfield and Sinnamon Park clinics.