Days after my first baby’s birth, I frantically called lactation consultants at 2 in the morning with a screaming and hungry newborn. I googled “bleeding nipples” and “painful latch” and resigned to the fact that I had no idea what I was doing.

I was flabbergasted that something that had been touted as "natural" could feel so confusing, difficult, and demanding. I needed support. I couldn't do it alone.

You shouldn't have to do it alone.

The lactation consultant who helped me through nursing my first eventually became a mentor. Having worked in fertility education for years prior, I quickly realized that postpartum was just the next chapter of reproductive life that our culture seemed to be failing families. It is a privilege to serve families in the intimate postpartum period and beyond.

Background and Training

• IBCLC Master Class: Oral Rehabilitation of the Breastfeeding Dyad 2022
• International Board Certified Lactation Consultant 2020
• Certified Breastfeeding Counselor 2019
• DONA doula training 2018
• La Leche League Leader Accreditation 2018
• FEMM Teacher Training Certification 2017
  

I now live in Bloomfield with my family where I serve the Northern Jersey and NYC area. My love of anatomy and hormonal health began in 2011. In my final year of film school at Montana State University, I wrote and directed my thesis film, Miscontraceptions - which later screened in the Northwest Filmmaker's Festival in Portland, the FLIC Film Festival, and at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn. Shortly after graduating university, I married my husband, packed up a u-haul, and moved across the country to New York City.

Throughout my first pregnancy and transition into parenthood, I studied and completed the FEMM teacher training program beginning in 2015. After the birth of my daughter in late 2015, like many of my clients, I experienced a difficult postpartum period. In 2018, I trained as a doula with DONA and in 2019 I completed Empire Lactation's Breastfeeding program. After 4 years of clinical hours, classes, and studying, I passed the International Board exam for Lactation Consultants in 2020.

In private practice now, I teach adults and teens how to chart their cycles for health management and effective, hormone-free family planning. As an IBCLC, I provide in home and virtual breastfeeding support. As a published writer, my favorite topics are reproductive and maternal health. You can find my writing portfolio here. While I love anything fertility, birth, and breastfeeding related, I enjoy park snowboarding, live jazz, and a good espionage novel.