Irene is a graduate of Boston University’s basic program in nursing and its master’s degree program in parent child health nursing.

She is an experienced clinician caring for new families in antenatal, labor and delivery, postpartum and NICU settings. She also has extensive experience teaching nursing students in a variety of nursing programs, and serves as a clinical education specialist at Medela.

Irene has written many continuing educational programs for health professionals in the area of breastpump function and breastfeeding support. She has been IBCLC certified since 2000 and has served as 1st Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps.

Irene is a wife and mother of 2 breastfed children, now teenagers.

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