Diana West
Diana West has been an IBCLC in New Jersey (US) for over 20 years and is a retired La Leche League Leader. She has published many books, including Making More Milk, Sweet Sleep, the 8th edition of The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Breastfeeding after Breast and Nipple Procedures, Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding after Breast Reduction Surgery, and ILCA’s popular Clinician’s Breastfeeding Triage Tool. Diana has also co-authored a research article with a team led by Trevor MacDonald and the late Joy Noel-Weiss about trans men’s experiences with lactation and gender identity.
Diane Wiessinger
Diane Wiessinger
Diane Wiessinger MS, IBCLC, holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Biology and in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Cornell University. She has been a La Leche League Leader since 1985 and an International Board Certified Lactation
Consultant since 1990. Diane has published articles and commentaries on numerous breastfeeding topics, co-authoring a chapter on infant latch in Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants, and La Leche League International’s The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 8th edition and Sweet Sleep. Diane has spoken across North America and abroad on her favorite topics: How mothers and babies sleep; how they make breastfeeding happen; and how the language we use reflects our unconscious views of breastfeeding. Her animal behavior background from 30 years ago has finally sunk in: one of her favorite topics is how our mammalian ancestry affects giving birth and learning to breastfeed in the 21st century.
Catherine Fetherston
Associate Professor Cathy Fetherston is Head of Nursing and Associate Dean Learning and Teaching in the School of Health Professions at Murdoch University in Western Australia. Cathy has also been an IBCLC since 1992, and worked in a private community hospital lactation clinic until 2010. She still provides continuing breastfeeding education to midwives, lactation consultants and child health nurses and conducts short courses in Breastfeeding and Human Lactation to assist candidates to prepare for the IBCLE. Cathy’s research interests are varied but there has been a focus on mastitis and pathophysiology of the lactating breast. She has published a number of papers in this area and a book chapter on the immunological protection of the breast.