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Let's work through this together


Yvonne is an International Board Certified and Registered Lactation Consultant with 18 years experience helping breastfeeding families.

As an accredited La Leche League Leader 
she facilitates group support meetings and offers breastfeeding triage support by phone. She is the current Area Professional Liaison 
for three states offering medical and legal advice for 
complicated breastfeeding cases. 

Yvonne works on staff at a Boston teaching hospital 
providing lactation support for fragile newborns in the
​Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as well as
all families throughout the hospital in need of support.


She receives an annual flu vaccine and
is CPR/AED trained and certified.
She has received both first and second doses 
​of the Covid-19 vaccine.



​Yvonne is an active member of:                                        

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RECENT EDUCATION:

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1/21: How did I miss THAT? Breast assessment in non-white skin tones
(Nekisha Killings MPH IBCLC)

11/20: American Heart Association, BLS Provider (CPR & AED)
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9/20: Requisite requirements completed to become a Certified Tummy Time!™ Method Professional

2/20: Guest Lecturer, Tufts University Boston MA, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Graduate Nutrition course

1/20: The Return of Breastsleeping: Humankind's Most Successful Sleep and Feeding Arrangement (James McKenna PhD)

9/19: TummyTime!™ Method 2.0 Certification, 2-day intensive workshop, (Michelle Emanuel OTR/L, CIMI, CST, NBCR, RYT200)

6/19: Can Herbs Solve Breastfeeding Problems?, ILCA webinar, (Sara Chana Silverstein, BA, IBCLC, RH)

4/19: Oral Function: Comprehensive Care in the Pre-Crawling Infant, 2-day intensive workshop, (Michelle Emanuel OTR/L & Melissa Cole IBCLC)

3/19: Craniosacral Therapy I, Upledger Institute, 4-day intensive (Michael Morgan LMT, CST-D)

1/19: 
Guest Lecturer, Tufts University Boston MA, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Graduate Nutrition course

1/19: LLL of MA/RI/VT - Leader Workshop Day
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10/18: Breastfeeding and Skin to Skin as the First Line Non-Pharmacologic Interventions For Opioid Exposed Newborns (Dan Hale MD)
10/18: Referrals and Recommendations: Ethical Considerations for Lactation Professionals (Maire MacLean IBCLC)
10/18: Mammary Dysbiosis: Approaching Mastitis with Probiotics, Vibration, and Turmeric (Marsha Walker RN,IBCLC)
10/18: Hypoglycemia and Glucose Gel Use in Breastfeeding Infants (Jeffrey Feldman MD)
10/18: Donor Breastmilk Use in the Hospital: A Case Study (Marianne Anderson MD and Judith Fayre BS, RN, IBCLC)


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A little about IBCLCs...

IBCLCs are health care professionals who specialize in all areas of lactation - both simple and complex - and are required to 
re-certify every 5 years to maintain the most up-to-date and evidence based clinical and ethical practice.  
IBCLCs possess the only internationally recognized board certified lactation credential available.  
They abide by a Standard of Practice and a Code of Ethics and work within a defined Scope of Practice.
An IBCLC really is the "Gold Standard" in lactation support!

​photo courtesy of C. Wolfe