Providing Care in the Curve of Your Arms and in the Learning Curve of New Parenthood

When inviting someone to care for you and your baby, especially in such an intimate and physical setting, it is important to feel confident that the provider considers your health and safety a top priority. With that in mind, you can view my Health and Hygiene practices. I'm also happy to share that I have had my updated COVID, annual flu, TDAP (includes Whooping Cough), and MMR vaccines. I am also BLS certified (includes Infant, Child, and Adult CPR) and am registered with Trustline.

What sets me apart

I work with families during pregnancy. I work with families who are breastfeeding or chestfeeding with little or lots of milk. I work with families who are bottle-feeding human milk and/or formula. I work with families who want to do either or both. I work with people who define family in all sorts of ways. And with every family I work with, my goal is to offer warm support and understanding, gentle encouragement, and a true sense of empowerment while providing practical evidence-based tools to guide you in your individual experience, no matter what that looks like. You won’t find any judgment here. Our work together will reflect YOUR values, desires, and goals and will take into account practicalities that all modern families must entertain.

What brought me here

I’ve always been the type of person who wants to help others find their way, offering genuine encouragement and support, sprinkled with a little humor.  I enjoyed earning my degree in psychology and knew I wanted to use those skills professionally, but I needed time to find my niche. When I became a mother, I experienced both emotional and physical challenges and feelings I previously never knew existed. My experience ignited a desire to educate myself not only about breastfeeding but parenting in general. As I was growing personally, a good friend found me particularly helpful through her breastfeeding challenges and encouraged me to consider making lactation support my profession, which has now become my passion.

I’m proud of the hard work I put in to acquire the required formal education, clinical skills, and certification to become an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), and now enjoy staying up-to-date through continuing education, conference attendance, conferring with trusted colleagues, and learning from the thousands of families I have the pleasure of working with. While I established my private home-visit practice in 2008, my professional background includes several years of providing hospital-based postpartum lactation support, office visits, facilitating support groups, teaching classes, and speaking at perinatal-related events.

As I learned myself personally and can speak to professionally, new parenthood is an incredible time with ups and downs we don’t fully realize until we are in the middle of it. I love what I do and I believe my work reflects that. I look forward to meeting you and helping with your infant feeding challenges and beyond.