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Meet Laura
Laura is a loving wife and mother, business owner and breastfeeding advocate.
Laura's relationship with breastfeeding began as a teenager, when in 1996, she "failed" at breastfeeding her newborn son due to lack of support. In 2008, however, a new chapter was written in her motherhood-book once she overcame breastfeeding challenges with her second baby. Despite her motivation to breastfeed her daughter, Laura needed the same specific support that seemed as difficult to find in San Antonio in 2008 as it was in 1996. This time, however, with maturity, persistence, and a promise to God if He answered the desires of her breastfeeding heart, not only did she eventually latch her baby after months, she went back to school to become what she didn't have as a new mom.
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It was in looking for her "village", that Laura came to understand that she could be a resource where few existed at the time. This realization is what led her to prepare and become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Having been a mom who received WIC herself, she was able to begin her lactation life-mission as a WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor. After serving the community through WIC, she was able to work for two of San Antonio's largest hospital systems as a bedside lactation consultant.
It was in response to mothers in post-partum units affectionately asking "Can I take you home with me?" that Laura started praying about going in to private-practice, in order to be able to provide San Antonio families with something they were asking for:
Breastfeeding Housecalls
& (a private) Lactation Clinic.
Since 2010, Laura built her resource alone, mostly as a single mother (she remarried in 2017). Seven years after having that first dream, Breastfeeding Housecalls outgrew Laura's 70+ hr work-weeks, and it became apparent that staff IBCLCs would be needed. Through years of community-vetting, Laura selected the IBCLCs whom she felt had the most alignment to her own demeanor and mission, in addition to having always supported her.
When Laura isn't focused on helping new moms and babies, and on unconditionally supporting her staff, she spends her time with those who own her heart: her husband, her kids and her sweet fur-babies (2 cats and 2 dogs).
Laura's relationship with breastfeeding began as a teenager, when in 1996, she "failed" at breastfeeding her newborn son due to lack of support. In 2008, however, a new chapter was written in her motherhood-book once she overcame breastfeeding challenges with her second baby. Despite her motivation to breastfeed her daughter, Laura needed the same specific support that seemed as difficult to find in San Antonio in 2008 as it was in 1996. This time, however, with maturity, persistence, and a promise to God if He answered the desires of her breastfeeding heart, not only did she eventually latch her baby after months, she went back to school to become what she didn't have as a new mom.
***
It was in looking for her "village", that Laura came to understand that she could be a resource where few existed at the time. This realization is what led her to prepare and become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Having been a mom who received WIC herself, she was able to begin her lactation life-mission as a WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor. After serving the community through WIC, she was able to work for two of San Antonio's largest hospital systems as a bedside lactation consultant.
It was in response to mothers in post-partum units affectionately asking "Can I take you home with me?" that Laura started praying about going in to private-practice, in order to be able to provide San Antonio families with something they were asking for:
Breastfeeding Housecalls
& (a private) Lactation Clinic.
Since 2010, Laura built her resource alone, mostly as a single mother (she remarried in 2017). Seven years after having that first dream, Breastfeeding Housecalls outgrew Laura's 70+ hr work-weeks, and it became apparent that staff IBCLCs would be needed. Through years of community-vetting, Laura selected the IBCLCs whom she felt had the most alignment to her own demeanor and mission, in addition to having always supported her.
When Laura isn't focused on helping new moms and babies, and on unconditionally supporting her staff, she spends her time with those who own her heart: her husband, her kids and her sweet fur-babies (2 cats and 2 dogs).
Watch all of Laura's story as she talks about
Rewriting the Story of
Latino Breastfeeding Worth
@ the Kellogg Foundation's 2015 First Food Forum in Washington, D.C.
Rewriting the Story of
Latino Breastfeeding Worth
@ the Kellogg Foundation's 2015 First Food Forum in Washington, D.C.