Founding Story

I told my mom when I was 10 years old that I wanted to feed babies for a living. When I was researching jobs in high school, lactation as a field was really new and not really a thing. I looked into becoming a nurse, but didn't want to give babies shots or draw blood. The field of speech pathology was very attractive to me as it allowed me to work specifically with feeding babies. My entire career has focused on feeding the baby. I worked in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for years as a speech therapist, but wanted to work even closer with families to feed their babies. I started my journey to become a lactation consultant in 2012. I became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 2018 at the same time as I launched LA Lactation, LLC. I worked in a hospital for over 12 years, gaining critical and practical medical experience in pediatric feeding and swallowing. In July of 2021, I finally quit my hospital career for full time private practice to focus on families and their individual goals for feeding their babies.