Cygnus Lactation Services: Our Instructors

Jeanne Cygnus, IBCLC, RLC - Owner, Lactation Consultant

Jeanne Cygnus,IBCLC, RLC (internationally board certified, registered lactation consultant) has been helping breastfeeding moms since 1995. She founded Cygnus Lactation Services in 2002, providing home-visits and intensive lactation support to mothers throughout Lake, Cook, and McHenry Counties.

In August of 2005, she opened Cygnus Lactation Services as the first independent lactation clinic in Lake County! In August 2009 the clinic expanded and now has a dedicated classroom facility and additional space for consultations and other services.

She provides full, customized office and home consultations, teaches classes, and assists mothers with a wide variety of breastfeeding needs.

She is the immediate past President for the Northern Illinois Lactation Consultants Association - (NILCA), and also provides consulting and telephone support for several OB and Pediatric offices.

Outside of clinic hours, Jeanne homeschools her son (while her daughter tackles high school!), SCUBA dives, studies Hebrew,  and helps care for her family's virtual zoo of animals!

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC - Lactation Consultant, "Baby & Me" Group Leader

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, is author of "The Breastfeeding Answer Book Pocket Guide Edition" (2005) and co-author of "Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers" (2005) and "The Breastfeeding Answer Book" (2003), a research-based counseling guide for lactation professionals. Nancy has been helping breastfeeding families since 1982. Board-certified in 1991, she founded and maintained a large private lactation practice in the Chicago area form 1992 to 2003. She has been a regular contributor to many publications and has been talking about breastfeeding at conferences around the world since 1989. She is currently the Lactation Consultant for Ameda Products at Hollister Incorporated and is Chair of the Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition: http://www.chicagoareabfc.org