ABOUT
Our Team
Ellen Chetwynd
PhD, MPH, BSN, RN, IBCLC
Founder / Co-owner
She/her
Ellen Chetwynd is a clinician-researcher who bridges science and touch to transform how infants and parents are supported in feeding. Her drive to create a new system for breastfeeding support came out of her own integration of cranio-sacral techniques into lactation consulting while studying epidemiology. This rich stew of inputs, plus conversations with breastfeeding mothers and other lactation consultants, led to many questions and the slowly evolving answers that grew into Body-Led Breastfeeding.
Outside of Body-Led Breastfeeding, she is the immediate past Editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Lactation, and has worked in a variety of settings, from hospital labor and delivery to co-directing a Family Medicine Maternal and Child Health program, to studying rural maternity care. She has been an active advocate for breastfeeding and lactation consulting through her writing, expert witnessing, and serving on numerous boards and committees. She has a strong interest in advancing the scientific integrity of our field through research as well as crafting the ethical principles we use to support women, lactating parents, and babies.
It is her passion to teach others about Body-Led Breastfeeding, and her joy to have found such a capable partner in Adina.
Adina Kopinsky
IBCLC
Co-creator / Co-Owner
She/her
Adina Kopinsky has over a decade of experience supporting mothers and babies and became an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant in 2022. Finding Ellen’s work and joining her in creating Body-Led Breastfeeding is a natural extension of Adina’s lifelong passion for seeing the body as an integrated system and her many deep-dives into human movement and anatomy.
The bridging of lactation care with physiokinetics brings her special gratitude and fulfillment in the work of helping families through feeding struggles. Adina specializes in helping babies with persistent oral function challenges and those who struggle with bottle feeding.
She serves as an assistant editor at the Journal of Human Lactation, where she and Ellen co-host the Journal's monthly literature review podcast. Adina is also a published poet and is often drawn to the themes of motherhood and spirituality.
