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About Jeanette

This course is led by Jeanette Mesite Frem, MHS, IBCLC, CCE of Babies in Common, who is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and experienced childbirth educator. She's collected and used many pumps, bottles and other gear with her clients in her practice and is is experienced with virtual consultations and using props for teaching parents and will utilize those skills during this online workshop. Jeanette has spoken about flange fitting to about 20,000 IBCLCs and perinatal professionals globally about flange fitting and is dedicated to changing how parents pump...and she is currently the co-investigator of the first ever flange fitting study that compares standard sizes with smaller sizes, using her approach to flange fitting (with lead investigator Dr. Lisa Anders of University of North Carolina Greensboro). Jeanette is an experienced childbirth educator, IBCLC-lactation consultant and retired birth doula. She started her career working with families while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa in the early 90s. She loved that work so much she went on to receive a public health masters degree from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, focusing her studies on nutrition for maternal and child health. Her two children were breastfed for more than 2 years each and Jeanette has experience pumping at work for both children and has supported more than a thousand families with breastfeeding, chestfeeding, pumping, bottlefeeding, cupfeeding, tubefeeding, etc. over the years. Jeanette provides prenatal childbirth and breastfeeding classes at her office in Northborough, Massachusetts, as well as providing virtual feeding consultations as well as in her office. She also enjoys leading workshops for perinatal health professionals and mentoring those who work with families. If you have questions, feel free to email [email protected].