Contact: bookings@laurelawilson.com
Why Laurel?
Your colleagues are busy. They want to read the more than 60,000 journal articles published on maternal child health, but who has time? Laurel synthesizes the latest research in the hottest topics important for optimizing both women's and family health and delivers to content in an engaging and refreshing format. With over 30 presentations, from menopause topics to perinatal epigenetics, to cannabis and its impact during pregnancy and postpartum, to social media's influence on new families, Laurel has the information your peers need to know. Best of all, she explains it all in an easily digested manner, in language that is easy to share with parents.
Laurel Wilson, BSc, IBCLC, RLC, INHC, CCCE, CLE®, CLD, CPPFE, CPPI owns MotherJourney and Thrive During the Transition in Larkspur, Colorado. She has her degree in Maternal and Child Health - Lactation Consulting. With over thirty years of experience working with parents in the childbearing year and perinatal professionals, Laurel takes a creative approach to working with the pregnant family and perinatal professionals. As a TEDx and International Keynote Speaker, Laurel connects with audiences with humor, straight talk, and analogies that bring each subject to life. She is co-author of best-selling books, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: The Keys to the MotherBaby Bond and The Attachment Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Bonding with Your Baby. She is also a contributing author to Round the Circle: Experienced Doulas Share What They Learned the Hard Way and original editor of the CAPPA Lactation Educator Manual. She currently travels the world and does virtual presentations on such hot topics as FemTech and Lactation, Social Media and the Pregnant Family, Epigenetics and the Microbiome and First Foods, and Cannabis and Perinatal Health.
Laurel has received her training with Institute for Integrative Nutrition, My Menopause Transformation, Union Institute and University, Regis University, University of Arizona, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga, Prenatal Parenting, and Walden University. She has passed the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. She strives to provide the latest techniques, research, and programs to her clients by attending yearly conferences and workshops.
Laurel is a board certified as a lactation consultant (IBCLC), and has certifications as a Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Certified Menopause Practitioner Training, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator™, Prenatal ParentingTM Instructor, and Pre and Postpartum fitness educator. She served as the CAPPA Executive Director of Lactation Programs for 17 years and is now on the Senior Advisory Board. She served as a Director for the United States Breastfeeding Committee from 2016 to 2019. She also is on InJoy Health's Review Board and serves as a board member on Kindred World, as well as Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition. She also works as the Academic Development Specialist for GOLD Lactation Academy.
Laurel is a perinatal and women's health speaker, sharing her knowledge at professional conferences around the world (and in a virtual setting) on subjects ranging from hot topics in lactation to epigenetics and the prenatal environment. She has trained thousands of professionals in the 20 Hour Lactation Educator™ Course for CAPPA. Additionally, she has taught perinatal classes to families in private and hospital settings. Laurel has created teaching strategies that facilitate better understanding of the change processes during the childbearing year. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for 30 years and has two amazing sons, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. She believes that the journey towards and into parenthood is a life-changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.
Laurel Wilson, BSc, IBCLC, RLC, INHC, CCCE, CLE®, CLD, CPPFE, CPPI owns MotherJourney and Thrive During the Transition in Larkspur, Colorado. She has her degree in Maternal and Child Health - Lactation Consulting. With over thirty years of experience working with parents in the childbearing year and perinatal professionals, Laurel takes a creative approach to working with the pregnant family and perinatal professionals. As a TEDx and International Keynote Speaker, Laurel connects with audiences with humor, straight talk, and analogies that bring each subject to life. She is co-author of best-selling books, The Greatest Pregnancy Ever: The Keys to the MotherBaby Bond and The Attachment Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Bonding with Your Baby. She is also a contributing author to Round the Circle: Experienced Doulas Share What They Learned the Hard Way and original editor of the CAPPA Lactation Educator Manual. She currently travels the world and does virtual presentations on such hot topics as FemTech and Lactation, Social Media and the Pregnant Family, Epigenetics and the Microbiome and First Foods, and Cannabis and Perinatal Health.
Laurel has received her training with Institute for Integrative Nutrition, My Menopause Transformation, Union Institute and University, Regis University, University of Arizona, Healthy Children, DONA, ALACE, CAPPA, Birthworks, Whole Birth Yoga, Prenatal Parenting, and Walden University. She has passed the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. She strives to provide the latest techniques, research, and programs to her clients by attending yearly conferences and workshops.
Laurel is a board certified as a lactation consultant (IBCLC), and has certifications as a Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Certified Menopause Practitioner Training, childbirth educator, labor doula, lactation educator™, Prenatal ParentingTM Instructor, and Pre and Postpartum fitness educator. She served as the CAPPA Executive Director of Lactation Programs for 17 years and is now on the Senior Advisory Board. She served as a Director for the United States Breastfeeding Committee from 2016 to 2019. She also is on InJoy Health's Review Board and serves as a board member on Kindred World, as well as Colorado Breastfeeding Coalition. She also works as the Academic Development Specialist for GOLD Lactation Academy.
Laurel is a perinatal and women's health speaker, sharing her knowledge at professional conferences around the world (and in a virtual setting) on subjects ranging from hot topics in lactation to epigenetics and the prenatal environment. She has trained thousands of professionals in the 20 Hour Lactation Educator™ Course for CAPPA. Additionally, she has taught perinatal classes to families in private and hospital settings. Laurel has created teaching strategies that facilitate better understanding of the change processes during the childbearing year. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for 30 years and has two amazing sons, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. She believes that the journey towards and into parenthood is a life-changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.
Where is Laurel in 2024?
Feb, 2024 GOLD Lactation Academy: The Journey Towards IBCLC, Virtual
Feb, 2024 February, 2024 Palm Springs, CA, Milk: An Evolution - A Day With Laurel
March, 2024 New York State Breastfeeding Coalition: The Clinical and Translational Science of Lactation
March, 2024 GOLD Lactation Academy IBCLC Exam Confidence Clinic
April, 2024 Atlanta, Epic Breastfeeding Conference
April Rhodes, 2024 Island, Greece, Galaxius Lactation Conference
May, 2024 Kansas City, KS Kansas WIC
May, 2024 California WIC Conference
May, 2024 Brussels, Belgium ELACTA Conference
June, 2024 GOLD Lactation Online Conference
July, 2024 Colorado WIC Training
August, 2024 Bali, Thrive During the Transition Retreat
August 2024, Texas WIC
September, 2024 Minnesota WIC
Where was Laurel in 2023?
Feb, 2024 GOLD Lactation Academy: The Journey Towards IBCLC, Virtual
Feb, 2024 February, 2024 Palm Springs, CA, Milk: An Evolution - A Day With Laurel
March, 2024 New York State Breastfeeding Coalition: The Clinical and Translational Science of Lactation
March, 2024 GOLD Lactation Academy IBCLC Exam Confidence Clinic
April, 2024 Atlanta, Epic Breastfeeding Conference
April Rhodes, 2024 Island, Greece, Galaxius Lactation Conference
May, 2024 Kansas City, KS Kansas WIC
May, 2024 California WIC Conference
May, 2024 Brussels, Belgium ELACTA Conference
June, 2024 GOLD Lactation Online Conference
July, 2024 Colorado WIC Training
August, 2024 Bali, Thrive During the Transition Retreat
August 2024, Texas WIC
September, 2024 Minnesota WIC
Where was Laurel in 2023?
- NYSWIC, Virtual; April 18
- Illinois WIC, Virtual: Elgin, IL May 24, 2023
- Association québécoise des consultantes en lactation, Virtual; Quebec, Canada, May 30, 2023
- Newborn Care Specialist Conference, Scottsdale, AZ June 2023
- GOLD Lactation Academy, Virtual: June 14, 2023
- Allegheny County WIC, Virtual; June 2023
- Indianapolis WIC: Indiana, August 1, 2023
- Delaware WIC, Virtual: August 3, 2023
- Manitou Sprimgs, CO Thrive Through Transition Retreat, August 31-Sept 3, 2023
- Colorado Moutain LLL, Virtual: Sept 7, 2023
- Denver, CO Doula Con Sept 21, 2023
- Association of Irish Lactation Consultants, Ireland, September 2023
- LATCH-AZ, Online, January 7, 2022
- Colorado Lactation Conferences, Online, February 1, 2022
- iLactation Connect, Nourish, Thrive - Online March 2-June 2
- Wisconsin Association of Lactation Consultants (WALC) Annual Conference - March 2- 4, 2022
- Brasil Lactation Consultants, Online, March 24, 2022
- Mohawk Valley Lactation Conference, Virtual, March 25, 2022
- The Northwest Georgia Breastfeeding Coalition 2022 - March 30, 2022
- International Nanny Association, Las Vegas, NV March 31-April 2
- 2022 CWA Power of Community Conference, online May 9-12
- The Chicago Region Breastfeeding Conference, Online, April 8, 2022
- Michigan WIC Breastfeeding Conference, Virtual, May 5, 2022
- California WIC Breastfeeding Conference, Virtual, May 9-12, 2022
- Partners in Perinatal Care, Online, May 12, 2022
- Austin WIC Conference, Keynote, Austin, Texas, June 21-23, 2022
- Idaho Breastfeeding Coalition, In Person, July 14-15, 2022
- Leading Edge Lactation, August-December, online, 29 Amazing speakers
- Missouri WIC Breastfeeding Conference, October 27-28, 2022