Amy Spangler

Amy Spangler MN, RN, IBCLC, is a wife, mother, nurse, lactation consultant, educator, and author. She earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from The Ohio State University and her master's degree in maternal and child health from the University of Florida. Amy is a registered nurse, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, a former president of the International Lactation Consultant Association, and a former chair of the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She is a member of the affiliate faculty at Emory University School of Nursing and the author of numerous publications including BREASTFEEDING, A Parent's Guide, BREASTFEEDING, Keep It Simple, BREASTFEEDING, Your Guide to a Healthy, Happy Baby, Evidence-based Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding During the First Fourteen Days, and Clinical Guidelines for the Establishment of Exclusive Breastfeeding. Amy currently serves as President of Amy's Babies. She lectures extensively on a wide variety of maternal and child health topics. Amy lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband Dennis. They have two sons, Matthew and Adam.

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Carol Rivera

Carol Adams Rivera, M.A., received a bachelor’s degree in genetics, with a French minor, from the University of California at Berkeley. She also earned a master’s degree in English from Georgetown University, where she had a special interest in biology and literature. From 1989 to 2002, Carol worked at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University, where she began as a project associate and advanced to director of publications. As director of publications, Carol managed the editing, design, and printing of more than 80 publications and products per year, including the Bright Futures national health care guidelines on pediatric health supervision, nutrition, physical activity, mental health, and oral health. In 2002, Carol founded Health Communication Connection, a business providing health-related editing, writing, and graphic design services. Carol has worked on the editing and layout of breastfeeding publications for Amy’s Babies since 2003, and her current projects include co-writing a booklet on prenatal care for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Carol and her husband, Ben, live in the Washington, DC, area with their son, Benjamin.

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Barbara Behrmann

Barbara L. Behrmann, Ph.D., is the author of The Breastfeeding Café: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, & Secrets of Nursing, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2005. A sociologist, breastfeeding advocate, and free-lance writer, Barbara speaks throughout the United States and Canada. Her presentations and workshops center around breastfeeding from the perspective of women’s lives and what it means to breastfeed in a bottle-feeding culture. Her writing has appeared in international journals, in local and regional parenting publications, and on a host of websites, including Breastfeeding.com, Storknet.com, and KeepKidsHealthy.com. She a “parenting expert” on and has a monthly column at RealSavvyMoms.com. Barbara maintains a growing website - breastfeedingcafe.com - and publishes a quarterly newsletter. Both offer information, resources, articles, and products for parents and health care providers alike. Empowering women and families remains her number one goal.

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Rebecca Black

Rebecca F. Black, MS, RD, LD, is a clinician, educator, researcher, and public speaker with degrees in dietetics and clinical nutrition and certification as a Licensed and Registered Dietitian. She has worked in a variety of practice settings including public health, hospital, and private practice in the management of her own nutrition consulting business from 1987 to 2003. She served as Co-Chairman of the Georgia State WIC Breastfeeding Task Force for several years and developed the lactation curriculum used in the education of public health and hospital personnel in Georgia, published as the Lactation Specialist Self-Study Series in 1996 by Jones and Bartlett Publishers and later incorporated into a publication on core competencies in lactation. Rebecca developed the East Central Health District Breastfeeding Promotion program that serves a 13-county area in Georgia with peer counselor services, breast pump loan programs, hospital and home visits, and breastfeeding telephone warm-lines. She has presented for numerous lactation and nutrition programs at the local, state, and national levels. She currently is on the faculty of Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, teaching in the Nutrition and Food Science program.

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Michelle Brenner

Dr. Michelle Brenner is an associate professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters/Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, VA. She is also an international board certified lactation consultant. Dr. Brenner is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Breastfeeding, the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, and the International Lactation Consultants Association. Her main interests are in improving medical education in breastfeeding management and infant sleep safety.

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Richard Bucciarelli

Dr. Bucciarelli is a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Medicine and the University of Florida Pediatric, Neonatology, and Pediatric Cardiology Internship, Residency, and Fellowship Programs. During his tenure at the University of Florida, Dr. Bucciarelli has served as Chief of Neonatology, Associate Chair of Pediatrics, and Associate Vice President of Health Affairs for Government Relations. As the chief governmental relations representative, Dr. Bucciarelli currently represents six colleges of the University of Florida Health Science Center in the state and nation's capitals. An active member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Bucciarelli has chaired several important committees focusing on child health policy, including the Committee on Federal Governmental Affairs and the Subcommittee on Access to Care for Children and their Families. In these various capacities, Dr. Bucciarelli has been instrumental in writing several bills that have been introduced in the United States Congress. Despite these administrative responsibilities, Dr. Bucciarelli practices actively as a neonatologist and also coordinates the community and child advocacy program for pediatric residents at the University of Florida. Rick and his wife, Lynda, are avid "gator" fans. Their daughter is a graduate student in art therapy at Florida State University and their son is a recent graduate of the University of Florida with a major in exercise physiology.

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Cameron Clark

Cameron Clark is NOT a writer but rather a professional photographer, new mother, dog enthusiast, mountain biker, and self-help junkie. When she is not tending to her newborn son, Owen, she manages her own wedding photography business, takes a daily walk, and dreams about her next vacation while eating ice cream. Cameron is an advocate for natural birth, breastfeeding, cloth diapers, and all things good for our planet. She wishes she drove a plug-in hybrid vehicle and lived in a solar-powered house with a self-sustaining garden and a compost pile to boot. Instead she lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, in a lovely townhouse close to the forest in a community where “everybody knows your name.” Cameron has not written any books about babies or mothering nor does she have a degree in anything remotely medical. She is a former photojournalist who keeps two blogs and loves to research all topics baby. You can view her wedding work at cameronclarkphotography.com or cameronclarkphotography.blogspot.com and see a few too many images of little Owen at babyclark2008.blogspot.com.

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Kendall Cox

Kendall hails from Kentucky, the Bluegrass State. After graduating from college, she entered the Peace Corps, where she lived and worked in Botswana, Africa for three and one-half years. Kendall served as Breastfeeding Coordinator for Best Start Social Marketing and District Breastfeeding Coordinator for the Mississippi State Department of Health, WIC Program, where she managed the peer counseling program as well as the Mississippi Delta breastfeeding promotion and support program. A co-founder of EVERY MOTHER, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to improving mothers' access to breastfeeding care and services, Kendall provides health professional training throughout the U.S. In addition, she teaches parenting classes to expectant teens and works with mothers and babies in her community to insure their breastfeeding success. Kendall is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and a La Leche League Leader. In her spare time, she serves as Program Director for Clean Water U, an organization that coordinates the installation of water systems in communities where the water is contaminated. Kendall lives in the Mississippi Delta with her husband and their 15-year-old twins, Caleb and Lesedi.

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Heidi Green

Heidi Hauser Green, MS, MLIS, is passionate about issues that affect maternal-child health. She has spent more than a decade working in research and communications for organizations involved in projects that enhance the health of mothers and families. In addition to a bachelor’s degree from Niagara University, Heidi has earned master’s degrees from Illinois State University and the University of Pittsburgh. A member of the Allegheny County Breastfeeding Promotion Steering Committee, she keeps busy reviewing books for Children’s Literature and completing other writing/editing projects. Heidi lives in Pittsburgh, PA, with her husband Michael and their three children.

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Karen Gromada

Karen Kerkhoff Gromada, MSN, RN, IBCLC, is currently employed as a lactation consultant at TriHealth Hospitals in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has worked as an adjunct clinical instructor for the departments of Parent-Child Nursing, and Community, Adult and Psychiatric Nursing at the University of Cincinnati, College of Nursing, and as a lactation consultant in a hospital setting and in private practice. Karen holds a Master of Science in Nursing degree in mental health nursing from the University of Cincinnati, and has worked in labor and delivery, childbirth education and early postpartum discharge care. A La Leche League (LLL) leader since 1975, Karen formed the first LLL group for mothers of multiples in 1977 when her third and fourth children (of five) were born 10 minutes apart. The experiences of the group mothers provided the material for her book Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More. She is also co-author of Keys to Parenting Twins. Her articles and chapters on breastfeeding and parenting multiples have appeared in numerous professional and consumer publications. In addition, she is well known as a speaker on the topics of breastfeeding and parenting multiple-birth children.

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Mary Jessica Hammes

Mary Jessica Hammes is a writer, trapeze artist, comic book enthusiast, vegan banana bread baker, knitter, and obsessive reader. She is also mother to young Thomas, a toddler whose present height suggests a future in either basketball, apple-picking, or some other pursuit suitable for the extremely tall. His hair is also way too long, but neither Mary Jessica nor her husband, Robert Newsome, can bear to have it cut, because they are both too sentimental for their own good. Mary Jessica likes contemplating the finer things in life: namely, extended breastfeeding, unmedicated labor (yowza!), cloth diapering, homemade toddler food, various crafty and money-saving activities, and pretty much anything to do with Hobbits, pirates, 18th century sassy British ladies looking for husbands, zombies, Doctor Who, and teenaged vampires in young adult novels. You can keep track of her writing work at maryjessicahammes.com, or read her blog at handywithaneedle.blogspot.com.

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Pauline Lupercio

Pauline M. Lupericio was born and raised in metro Detroit. A freelance writer, Pauline is gingerly negotiating the path of new motherhood and everybody else's opinion on how to raise baby! She has chronicled her baby steps into motherhood as a featured blogger at Metro Parent and through her personal blog - Deadlines and Diapers. When not changing diapers, Pauline can be found at the dog park, on the treadmill, or at the computer taking dictation from her two dogs for their own blog at ruff ruff review. She has written for The Detroit News, Metro Parent, and Third Street Publications.

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William Meyers

Dr. William Meyers is a Board Certified Pediatric Gastroenterologist. He graduated from Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1973. He earned his medical degree in 1977 from the University of Missouri Medical School. He completed pediatric training at the University of Florida but does not mind treating fans or alumni of the University of Georgia. His gastroenterology training was completed at the Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Before coming to Atlanta, he was an active clinician at Scott and White Hospital in Texas and an Associate Professor at Texas A&M School of Medicine. He has served on numerous medical management committees at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and has a strong interest in appropriate testing and health care utilization. He has published on gastroesophageal reflux in children. He an active member of the national society, North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He has special clinical interests in celiac disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, reflux, abdominal migraines and the cyclical vomiting syndrome.

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Elizabeth Pantley

Parenting educator Elizabeth Pantley is president of Better Beginnings, Inc., a family resource and education company. Elizabeth frequently speaks to parents at schools, hospitals, and parent groups around the world. Her presentations are received with enthusiasm, and praised as realistic, warm, and helpful. She is a regular guest on radio shows and a frequently quoted parenting expert in newspapers and magazines such as Parents, Parenting, American Baby, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, and Redbook. She publishes a newsletter, Parent Tips, which is distributed in schools nationwide. Elizabeth is the author of eight best-selling parenting books published in 18 languages. Her books include The No-Cry Sleep Solution, The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers, The No-Cry Discipline Solution, and The No-Cry Potty Training Solution. Elizabeth and her husband, Robert, have four children, Angela, Vanessa, David, and Coleton. Elizabeth is an involved participant in her children’s school and sports activities and has served in positions as varied as softball coach and school PTA president.

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Miriam Roldan

Miriam was born and raised in New Orleans with summers spent in Guatemala, Central America. She acknowledges seeing the developing world first-hand as a child as the inspiration to work in development. She graduated from Tulane University School of Public Heath and Tropical Medicine and went to work at CARE International. There she worked on child survival projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, helping communities combat diarrheal disease, respiratory infections, malaria, and malnutrition and promote exclusive breastfeeding. Later she was seconded to the CORE Group, a coalition of US-based non-governmental organizations working in international child health, to incorporate polio eradication activities into existing child survival projects of its members. Following the birth of her son she resigned to spend time with him and prepare her family for a post in West Africa where they will be living in September.

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Adam Spangler

Atlanta born, New York based writer Adam Spangler puts his academic degrees in geology and journalism to good use, reporting on environmental topics for magazines such as Vanity Fair, National Geographic Adventure, Outside, OnEarth, Plenty, and the Earth Island Journal. He fills in the gaps of the lackluster media coverage of American soccer at his blog, thisisamericansoccer.com. When not writing, Adam can be found at a jazz club, in the mountains, or spending too much money on clothing and gear.

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Jessica Weiner

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