Pamela K. Wiggins, IBCLC

Pam unofficially started her career in 1973, when her first son was born. She was determined to breastfeed, but received little support in the hospital and was given all kinds of bad advice. Not long after his birth she read The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and began attending La Leche League meetings.

Before her daughter was born she had become a La Leche League leader, giving experienced mother to mother support. And by the time her second son was born, she knew that mothering and lactation consulting would be her life's work.

In 1985, she was among the first group to take the IBCLC exam in Washington, D.C.. She is considered one of the pioneers in the field.

As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Pam has worked in private practice, in the hospital setting and for WIC. While working for WIC she designed and initiated a lactation program in a Florida hospital. She has been counseling breastfeeding mothers for over thirty years.

Pam still enjoys helping mothers as a La Leche League leader. She is a member of the International Lactation Consultant Association, the Tidewater Area Lactation Consultant Association and La Leche League International.

She is the author of Why Should I Nurse My Baby?, Breastfeeding: A Mother’s Gift, When Disasters Happen: Breastfeeding During Emergencies, Dad's 10 Minute Breastfeeding Guide, and Life in the Family Lane. She has also contributed to and been published numerous times in various publications.

Recently, Pam created a the DVD Breastfeeding: You Can Do It! The first DVD that is priced to be given to parents - with English and Spanish on every disc!

The author and her husband have three children and six grandchildren (all nursed.) The family lives on a farm in southeastern Virginia, where they raise peanuts and pine trees.