Melissa Clark Vickers
Melissa Clark Vickers, mother of two grown children, is a writer, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and longtime La Leche League Leader. She taught high school biology until the birth of her son Dan in 1983. When her second child, Merrilee, was a year old and not sleeping through the night, in desperation Melissa attended her first LLL meeting in Marietta, Georgia, where she found not only support for breastfeeding, but also for a parenting style that resonated with her
instincts that said to ignore “conventional wisdom” and instead focus on meeting the needs of her child. She became a LLL Leader in 1990, and resumed her “teaching” career—only this time by helping other mothers discover the satisfaction that comes from parenting from the heart.
Melissa also discovered a love of writing through LLL, and has written for various international, national, regional, and local publications in and out of LLL. She currently edits the United States Lactation Consultant Association’s monthly eNews, and writes for baby gooroo (www.babygooroo.com). In addition, she works extensively with Family Voices, a national grassroots advocacy organization for families of children with special health care needs (www.familyvoices.org ). She participated on the American Academy of Pediatrics Infancy Panel for the 2008 revision of Bright Futures: Guidelines for Health Supervision of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 3rd Edition.
Melissa and her husband, Bob, live in rural west Tennessee.
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