My Experience
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For fifteen years, I worked in a busy hospital nursery/neonatal intensive care unit caring for hundreds of new babies most every month. I treasured each and every experience managing the care of newborns from birth to discharge. I helped someone feed their baby during the golden moments immediately following birth, or later while in the well-born nursery, perhaps while rooming-in with family, or while receiving special care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
During my work with newborns, I discovered the fascinating specialty of Human Lactation and pursued my own licensure, becoming an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) after completing six years of additional study and logging over 2,000 clinical hours working directly with breastfeeding families. I am privileged to have been specifically providing breastfeeding support directly to mothers and infants in inpatient and outpatient locations for the past fifteen years, managing all kinds of clinical lactation cases from the simple to the most complex. Lastly, I proudly represent a very small percentage of all the IBCLC's in the world because I have never had a child to breastfed. Because I do not bring personal experiences into your consultation, I am uniquely qualified to remain "theoretically" pure as we problem-solve your specific situation together. |
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Galatians 5:22-23 |
You can learn more about IBCLC's at www.iblce.org