ABOUT US
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Olympia Lactation offers breastfeeding support in the comfort of your own home or in a home-like office by board-certified lactation consultants, Carrie DiStefano, Stefanie Anderson, and Kristeen Seratt.
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Stefanie Anderson, IBCLC, CBE (she/her)
Stefanie is happy to be providing home and in office lactation support through Olympia Lactation. She has been working with new and expectant parents since 2013 as a certified birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator, and offering compassionate lactation support as a breastfeeding peer counselor since 2016 and as an IBCLC since 2018. She has training and knowledge that enable her to support parents with various feeding difficulties from the time of birth through weaning. In addition to technical knowledge, Stefanie offers support and encouragement and values each family's individual feeding choices and goals. Personally, Stefanie is married and a mother of 4 children. She works as an inpatient and NICU lactation consultant at St. Joseph Medical Center and volunteers her time by serving on the board of directors for Breastfeeding USA. Originally from California, she came to Washington in 2005. While not working with families she enjoys reading, walking outdoors on beautiful PNW trails, and Batdorf & Bronson coffee. |
Carrie DiStefano, IBCLC
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Olympia Lactation offers breastfeeding support in the comfort of your own home or in a home-like office by board-certified lactation consultants, Carrie DiStefano and Kristeen Seratt. Working at a hospital as a lactation consultant, Carrie realized that many families go home without proper breastfeeding support due to the short nature of their stay. New parents are discharged from the hospital sleep-deprived, overwhelmed with information, and often lacking knowledge of where to seek out breastfeeding assistance. Providing a personalized outpatient lactation service is something Carrie feels is crucial to breastfeeding success. Carrie has also completed a year-long holistic lactation training and is prepared and knowledgeable to address complex cases and breastfeeding situations. Carrie has three young daughters and became passionate about breastfeeding after working through many struggles with her first more than 10 years ago. She has been supporting breastfeeding families since 2012 and an IBCLC since 2015. She's passionate about assisting families with meeting their breastfeeding goals whether that is 3 days, 3 months or 3 years. You can read more about Carrie here. |
Kristeen Seratt, BSN, RN, IBCLC (she/her pronouns)
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Olympia Lactation is excited to have Kristeen Seratt join our team in 2019! Kristeen has been working with breastfeeding families for over 15 years. First as a labor and delivery nurse, a pediatric nurse, and then as a lactation specialist. She has been an IBCLC for 5 years working mostly in an outpatient setting but also has done inpatient postpartum lactation support and was responsible for starting the lactation program in a level 3 NICU in southern California. She has led parenting education classes and a variety of support groups. She has lived with her family in Olympia for 3 years but considers herself a NW girl, having spent the majority of her childhood in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington and her early adulthood in Seattle. Her passion for Maternal Child well-being spans across her professional life into her personal life where she has had the honor to mother both foster and biological children. |