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About Us
 Robin has been a board certified lactation consultant helping new families solve problems since 1995. Working in her own private practice, NewBorn Concepts, she offers personal consultations, educational programs and retail supplies to families in the suburban Philadelphia region. She is also available for presentations and in-service training sessions to volunteers and healthcare professionals.
Because of her knowledge, experience and abilities to help mothers and new families, Robin has been featured on Fox News, 48 Update, NBC News television programs. She has also appeared in articles in the Main Line Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has presented programs relating to hypnosis, childbirth and breastfeeding to professional conferences in the United States, Mexico and Australia.
Robin’s practice includes, private consultations for breastfeeding and fertility, classes in HypnoBirthing® and infant massage, as well as other topics including Prenatal Parenting™, that might be interesting to new parents. She is excited to offer a variety of classes to parents who are interested in pregnancy, birth and postpartum moments that are relaxed, confident and fulfilling experiences.
Robin has received advanced training through the HypnoBirthing Institute to be able to work with women who would like to become pregnant. Whether they are in a fertility program or trying to conceive naturally, she can offer private sessions to reduce stress and promote a sense of well-being.
She uses her professional training and personal experience to help each new family formulate and achieve their own goals as they begin their journey into parenthood.
Robin is a graduate of Dickinson College and the mother of three breastfed children. She began helping new families in 1988 as a volunteer breastfeeding counselor. As an experienced counselor in 1992, she became an instructor for the Nursing Mothers Counselor Training Course and has served as President of the Board of Directors of the Nursing Mothers Alliance. She also served as President of the Pennsylvania Resource Organization for Lactation Consultants. She currently maintains memberships with the International Lactation Consultants Association, the HypnoBirthing® Institute, and the Institute for Perinatal Education, the American Board of Hypnotherapy, the Loving Touch Foundation for Infant Massage, and the Association for Pre-and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
Kate is a mom, wife, daughter, sister, friend, lactation counselor and doula. All of these roles have had a profound impact in her life, but being a mom of two has taught her the most by far. Kate is a two-time Bryn Mawr Birth Center - HypnoBirthing mom and is an advocate of natural childbirth, breastfeeding, and the profound change it has on a woman's life. She is a certified breastfeeding counselor and has completed an 18-hour interdisciplinary breastfeeding management course sponsored by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. Kate is the friendly voice who will return your calls and help you make appointments. She can also answer some of your basic quetions about our services including hypnobirthing and breastfeeding. Kate also attends births for our hypnobirthing mothers who are looking for a birth doula.
Janet is a board certified lactation consultant who has been helping nursing moms as a volunteer breastfeeding counselor since 2007. She is actively involved in the volunteer organization, Nursing Mothers Alliance, where she serves as VP of education and teaches the course for new counselors. Janet lives in Pottstown with her husband, Tommy, children, Elise and Emmett, and their dog, Lucy.
Janet graduated with a BS in biology from Millersville University. After 12 years of working in the pharmaceutical industry, 4 of which were as a working, breastfeeding-dedicated mother, Janet seized an opportunity to pursue lactation consulting as a career. Janet became an international board certified lactation consultant in 2011. While not helping breastfeeding moms and their babies, Janet enjoys spending time with her family, scrapbooking, and decorating cakes.
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