About the Author
Laura Keegan has authored two editions of Breastfeeding with Comfort and Joy:
1) the timeless 2008 limited print first edition in paperback and
2) the New Release available in kindle format -
A stunning expansion of the first edition, the New Release brings video and more images that weren't available in the first edition; including moms and babies breastfeeding at birth in different situations.
Exclusive to the New Release eBook are moms telling us about breastfeeding at birth including Caesarean birth; and one mom sharing her unabridged birth story with images and video of her cuddling her newborn back to life after being told her baby "didn't make it."
Laura Keegan is a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) in clinical practice since 1988 and mother of four, all breastfed. She has cared for newborns and infants and their families her entire career. Her clinical work has been universally praised by mothers and her colleagues (including physicians, nurses, midwives, IBCLC lactation consultants, and doulas).
For decades Laura has shared photographs she has taken of the mother baby breastfeeding dance with the breastfeeding moms and families in her practice. These real-life, emotionally evocative images have inspired moms and captured subtle breastfeeding behaviors that prevent pain and other common breastfeeding problems; making the images uniquely helpful for moms to refer to at home after their visits to imprint what they learned.
Inspired by her patients' generous participation in and requests for an image rich breastfeeding book, Laura authored and self-published the limited print first edition of Breastfeeding with Comfort and Joy, which received heartfelt, powerful endorsements and testimonials from moms, physicians, nurses, IBCLC lactation consultants, doulas, midwives, celebrities and others. Endorsers include Christiane Northrup, MD, NYT best-selling author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom; Mary Ann Kerwin, co-founder La Leche League International; Bettina Forbes, co-founder Best for Babes®; and actresses Alysia Reiner and Kelly Rutherford.
Laura's new release of Breastfeeding with Comfort and Joy with videos and more images is available worldwide in eBook and available for purchase in the US in print. Laura created the new release of the timeless information in order to include images and video that weren't available in the first edition including more images and video of moms and babies breastfeeding at birth in different situations.
Laura's formal education includes undergraduate study at Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science With Highest Honors majoring in Physiology from the University of California at Davis. Her nursing education includes two Master of Science degrees from Pace University.
Laura's clinical practice in New York State began in 1986 as an RN at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. She began her work as an FNP at the Institute for Urban Family Health in Manhattan in 1988, and later with the Peekskill Area Health Center and Riverside Pediatrics in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. She maintains a holistic solo private family practice in Dutchess County, New York.
