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I’ve been studying newborn behaviors relationship to birth outcomes and medications for over 5 years while working in a high risk hospital setting. I began applying interventions for care such as access to appropriate resources as well as early diagnosis for improved outcomes related to disordered feeding. I currently am studying the mental health impact to undiagnosed feeding disorders in early postpartum and long term effects without intervention of care.

Employment history with Baystate Medical Center, Massachusetts DPH, WIC and private practice. Project development with Early Intervention, NBCC Foundation and community body/dental workers in MA/CT. Degrees in public health, early childhood education, clinical mental health counseling and certificates in childbirth education, lactation, perinatal mental health and trauma specialist.

Presentations of webinars and in person speaking engagement include national conferences, universities, parent education programs and hospital staff training. Topics shared: Abnormal Feeding Impacts and Perinatal Mental Health, Re-calibrating NAS Outcomes through Co-Regulation, Feeding & Bonding with the NAS newborn, and ‘Tales of an IBCLC: the mental health lowdown’.