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Stephanie Housley

RN, IBCLC · Lactation consultant

As a nurse, I have worked in various areas like CVICU/CCU, Med/Surg, an infertility clinic, and Postpartum. However, maternal newborn care has had my heart for most of my 20+ year career. Becoming an IBCLC was a natural progression shaped by my own breastfeeding challenges (difficult and painful latching, a preterm NICU baby, pumping struggles, recurring mastitis, and food allergies). In 2014, I decided to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. My first couple of years, I helped mothers and babies as an IBCLC in the hospital and outpatient clinic. However, a few years later… COVID changed the environment for hospital lactation assistance. This really motivated me to move out of the hospital and into the private practice setting.

It is an honor to do what I do… meeting new families and guiding them along their breastfeeding journeys. Each family is unique… and their plan of care should be as well. In order to offer optimal care, I look at the mother and baby individually and then as a whole.

I have had my private practice for 5 years and have been voted as a DFW Child Approved Lactation Consultant. Special areas of interest are prenatal breastfeeding education, oral function assessment, management of lip/tongue ties, latch and positioning assist, nipple and engorgement care, pumping education/flange fittings, mastitis treatment, introduction to bottles, and low milk supply.

Thai is my favorite food. My hobbies are camping, kayaking and snorkeling. I really enjoy educating… I was a homeschool mom. Spending time outdoors with my husband, children and grandchildren is my favorite pastime!