NMC, IBCLC and tongue-tie practitioner
Julienne Espineli is an NMC-registered nurse (PIN: 18C0203O), International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and independent tongue-tie practitioner with over ten years of combined NHS and private practice experience.
Julienne began her NHS career in 2011 as a Breastfeeding Support Worker with Ealing NHS Foundation Trust, before joining King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in 2012 as a Maternity/Infant Feeding Support Worker, covering postnatal wards, doing antenatal classes and working in community drop-in breastfeeding groups across Lambeth and Southwark. She became IBCLC certified in 2013, trained in frenulotomy technique at Southampton General Hospital in 2014, and progressed to Lactation Consultant in the Tongue-Tie Clinic (Band 6) in 2015-2017, performing frenulotomy procedures and supporting breastfeeding families. She later worked as a Registered Nurse at St George's Hospital (2019-2022), across adult medical, neonatal high dependency, special care baby and transitional neonatal care which continued her infant feeding support expertise in these areas.
Since 2019, Julienne has run her own CQC-registered independent practice, providing infant feeding support, tongue-tie assessment and frenulotomy treatment through home visits across London. She is a member of the Association of Tongue-Tie Practitioners, Lactation Consultants of Great Britain and the Royal College of Nursing.
Julienne's approach centres on evidence-based, individualised care that keeps families fully informed and in control of every decision about their baby's feeding.