GOLD Learning Speakers


Laurel A. Wilson, IBCLC, RLC, BSc, CLE, CCCE, CLD
- Speaker Type: Main Presentations, GOLD Lactation 2014, GOLD Midwifery 2016, Mental Health Lecture Pack 2016, GOLD Perinatal 2016, GOLD Lactation 2017, GOLD Alumni 2018, GOLD Lactation 2018, Laurel Wilson - Mysteries of Human Milk, Individual Lectures, Laurel Wilson - Caring for Our Community During COVID-19, Breastfeeding and Medically Complex Infants Lecture Pack 2020
- Country: U.S.A.
Biography:
Laurel Wilson, IBCLC, CLE, CCCE, CLD is a TEDx and international speaker, author, pregnancy and lactation expert, and consultant. She served as the Executive Director of Lactation Programs for CAPPA, the Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association for 16 years and now is on the Senior Advisor Board. She served on the Board of Directors for the United States Breastfeeding Committee from 2016-2019. She also is on the Advisory Board for InJoy Health. She owns MotherJourney, focusing on training perinatal professionals on integrative and holistic information regarding pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. She has her degree in Maternal Child Health: Lactation Consulting and is an internationally board certified lactation consultant. As the co-author of two books, The Attachment Pregnancy and The Greatest Pregnancy Ever, original Editor of the CAPPA Lactation Educator Manual, and contributing author to Round the Circle: Doulas Talk About Themselves, she loves to blend today’s recent scientific findings with the mind/body/spirit wisdom. Laurel has been joyfully married to her husband for nearly three decades and has two wonderful grown sons, whose difficult births led her on a path towards helping emerging families create positive experiences. She believes that the journey into parenthood is a life-changing rite of passage that should be deeply honored and celebrated.