BARBARA HOTELLING, MSN, WHNP-BC, LCCE, CD(DONA), IBCLC

Barbara Hotelling, MSN, WHNP-BC, LCCE, CD(DONA), IBCLC, is an internationally renowned Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and Consultant and on the staff of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Family Medicine. An informed and passionate champion of Women's Health, particularly as it relates to the birthing experience, she is a founding member and principal in CIMS (Coalition for Improving Maternity Services) where she serves as Co-Chair, CIMS Leadership Team and Chair, CIMS Evidence and Action Committee. She has spent the past few decades serving families with childbirth education, birth doula support, and lactation support. She has served the birth advocate national efforts as President of DONA and Lamaze. She currently teaches Lamaze classes at UNC Women's Hospital, Chapel Hill, and trains doulas and childbirth educators internationally.