Barbara got to spend some time with one of her favorite leaders in the lactation field, Cathy Watson Genna. Barbara had admired Cathy’s work from afar for years until she met her in person at Lactation Consultants in Private Practice.
Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC, is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in private practice in New York City. Certified in 1992, Catherine is particularly interested in helping moms and babies breastfeed when they have medical challenges. She speaks to healthcare professionals around the world on assisting breastfeeding babies with anatomical, genetic, or neurological problems.
Her presentations and writing feature her clinical photographs, which have also been widely published. Catherine’s research collaboration with Columbia University and Tel Aviv University’s departments of biomedical engineering is studying various aspects of infant sucking, swallowing, and nipple biomechanics. She is the author of Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools: Improving Care and 
Outcomes (Praeclarus Press 2009) and Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants 3rd edition (Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2017) as well as professional journal articles. Catherine is still a La Leche League Leader, supporting new Leaders in Queens. Catherine was the founding Associate Editor for the United States Lactation Consultant Association journal Clinical Lactation’s first 7 years. Her own two offspring (who were, of course, breastfed!) are a seminarian and a registered nurse.
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