Sylvia Houston Email and Phone Number

• Developed, designed, and produced fashionable state-of-the-art skin to skin garments for mothers to safely hold their infants in Skin-to-Skin Contact, breastfeed, and be hands-free while preventing falls and SUPC incidences • Instructor of In Service training and consultant to birthing centers staff• Producer of videos, training material, and informational sheets for mothers and nursing staff• Certified UISKC, United States Institute for Kangaroo Care• Selected to attend… Show more • Developed, designed, and produced fashionable state-of-the-art skin to skin garments for mothers to safely hold their infants in Skin-to-Skin Contact, breastfeed, and be hands-free while preventing falls and SUPC incidences • Instructor of In Service training and consultant to birthing centers staff• Producer of videos, training material, and informational sheets for mothers and nursing staff• Certified UISKC, United States Institute for Kangaroo Care• Selected to attend “Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Project Forum” in Kigali, Rwanda hosted by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and confirmed as the only designer, manufacturer and producer of Skin-to-Skin garments in the world with a goal of increasing skin to skin contact 50% by 2020.• Attended over 100 conferences on early childhood development and breastfeeding since 2001 promoting Skin-to-Skin Contact. Some of the conferences regularly attended include: UISKC National Intensive Kangaroo Care Certification Course ILCA, International Lactation Consultant Association Conferences OLCA, Ohio Lactation Consultant Association Conferences DONA International Conference Show less