MD & IBCLC
I originally trained to be a pediatrician (MD). I started my training in 1989 in Argentina and learned all the benefits and natural processes of breastfeeding. I worked in public Health in Argentina for 17 years, including giving information and choices on how to feed babies in very diverse scenarios.
When I became a mum for the first time in 2005, I faced a not-so-easy start with breastfeeding. Even though I had all the theoretical knowledge about it, I realized how important it is at the early days of motherhood, not only the science, but the support and companionship. After my second daughter was born (2009), I decided to leave my pediatrician pathway and started to work with mums-to-be and early years of childhood, including newborn normal behaviors, feeding babies and children, and normal child development, in my own clinic in Argentina. When I moved to London in 2015, I became a Doula. I love to support pregnant women and new mums and babies in the postnatal period. I also had the opportunity to be trained within Breastfeeding London course in 2018 and qualify as an IBCLC in January 2021. Now I am working both in the NHS and in independent sectors. Within the NHS I work in the postnatal ward in the Whittington NHS Trust.
In parallel, I work with a charity where I set up the on-line Spanish breastfeeding support session for all mothers who live in London and I run 2 breastfeeding free clinics in Tottenham for mums who are experiencing breastfeeding difficulties and lives in Haringey.