How to Get in Touch with Honeysuckle Cafe for Breastfeeding Support

Honeysuckle Cafe is the breastfeeding support practice of Clare Meynell, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). If you want to reach her, the site's "Get in touch" section is the contact point, and the support itself covers antenatal preparation, birth plans, tongue tie diagnosis, postnatal support, anxiety reassurance, and baby sleep reality. The right moment to contact her is whenever you have a question or concern — before birth to prepare, or after birth when something needs working through.

What Honeysuckle Cafe actually offers

The site describes the service as you, Clare, and a cup of tea discussing you and your baby's needs. In practice that means:

• Antenatal preparation — talking through what to expect and how you want feeding to go
• Birth plans — thinking ahead about your preferences
• Tongue tie diagnosis — part of the support Clare provides
• Postnatal support — help once the baby has arrived
• Anxiety reassurance — for the overwhelm that many new mothers feel
• Baby sleep reality — practical talk about how babies actually sleep

Clare's stated position is that breastfeeding is humanly normal and much more than just food, and that most women want to breastfeed but commonly face barriers. The service is framed as accompaniment — support in whatever way you need it — rather than a fixed package.

How to reach Clare

The website has a "Get in touch" section, which is the route the site itself points to for making contact. The page does not publish a phone number, email address, or booking form in the material available here, so the practical step is to open that section on honeysucklecafe.org and use whatever contact method it lists.

When you make contact, it helps to say briefly:

1. Whether you are pregnant or already have your baby, and how old the baby is
2. What you want help with — preparation, feeding difficulties, tongue tie, sleep, or reassurance
3. Any timing constraints, such as a hospital appointment or a feeding problem that feels urgent

That gives Clare enough to tell you how she can help and when.

Who you would be talking to

Clare Meynell's qualifications, as listed on the site:

The IBCLC qualification is recertified every five years, which the site notes keeps consultants using up-to-date evidence-based practice. Clare also states she is insured and that anything you share with her is strictly confidential. She has three personal breastfeeding experiences of her own, which she describes as part of what she brings to the work.

What to expect from the support

The site's framing is one-to-one and conversational: sitting beside you and talking through your situation. It is not presented as a drop-in group or a class schedule. If you are looking for a specific clinical service such as tongue tie division, note that the site lists tongue tie diagnosis as part of Clare's support — it does not describe the procedure itself, so ask directly about what she can and cannot do.

For anyone weighing up whether to make contact: the site's own answer to "why breastfeed" is that it is a natural human process, that 80% of breastmilk protects the baby against disease, and that it is individually and nutritionally perfect and helps build the immune system. It also says plainly that finding motherhood overwhelming at first is normal, and that reaching out for help early matters. That is the case for getting in touch sooner rather than waiting for a problem to resolve on its own.