Valeri Gatlin MA, ICCE, IBCLC

Valeri Gatlin has been an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) since 2006. She has worked diligently and passionately alongside mothers and families to help them grow successful on their breastfeeding journey. She has experience with both term and medically compromised infants, having worked in the NICU and postpartum hospital settings.   She continues a private practice in Midland and Lubbock.

She studied with Dr. Alison Hazelbaker at the Hazelbaker Lactation Institute in Ohio, learning to perform functional screenings and provide post-surgical help for tongue and lip tie issues.

Valeri has an extensive teaching background. She has written curriculum and taught classes on infant care, infant feeding, and childbirth education to both teens and adults in the home and hospital settings. She regularly lectured pediatric residents at Texas Tech Medical School and provided continuing education classes to nurses working in the NICU and the Family Care Units of local hospitals. She holds both a bachelor's and master's degrees in Speech Communications. She is an advocate for nursing mothers with adoptive children and the Mother's Milk Bank of North Texas.