Chelle Goodfriend

Chelle Goodfriend has been a perinatal educator, lactation consultant, birth doula, past president of the Childbirth Education Association of Orange County and Past President of the Orange County Lactation Consultants Association. Chelle has been featured in several breastfeeding videos in both English and Spanish. She has authored several articles in perinatal journals as well as parenting magazines. She has spoken at perinatal conferences in the US and Mexico.

Chelle also co-authored the ground-breaking report sponsored by the Orange County Child Abuse Prevention Counsel on the controversial parenting program Growing Kids God's Way (On Becoming Babywise). She has served many families throughout the years as a Sex Educator, Mind Body Fertility Specialist, Basic Life Support Instructor as well as providing parenting classes.

Chelle's initiation into the Perinatal field took place after the birth of her first son. Like most new moms, Chelle had difficulties breastfeeding her new baby and her mother recommended she visit a Lactation Consultant. Chelle was so grateful for the help she received and felt the desire to do the same. Within a few months she started attending classes at UCLA and began her studies in Human Lactation.

After becoming a Lactation Consultant Chelle realized that many of the breastfeeding problems she saw could have been prevented if there were educated choices made during labor and immediately following the birth. So her mission to educate and inform new and expectant moms expanded and Chelle became a Perinatal Educator where she taught thousands of couples at 4 Orange County hospitals. Chelle also has attended several hundred births, (both home and hospital births) as a birth doula.

While working at a hospital with a predominately Hispanic patient population, Chelle developed a real love for the Latino families in the community and her desire to travel and live in Mexico was born. After much contemplation Chelle resigned from her position as president of two local organizations as well as from her positions at four Orange County hospitals and moved to Mazatlan, Mexico.

While in Mexico Chelle worked with pregnant and new moms, teaching nutrition, pregnancy and birth preparation, baby care, breastfeeding and parenting. She found it refreshing that many of the doctors in Mexico wholeheartedly welcomed the use of herbs and folk remedies in conjunction with the western medical therapies.

Chelle Goodfriend

Certified Childbirth Educator
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
Birth Doula
Mind Body Fertility Specialist
Basic Life Support Instructor
Sex Educator

Chelle@BirthWithoutBorders.org

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