Hello, Rosemary Ragusa, IBCLC here. I'm an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Certified Doula. I am passionate about helping babies and their parents thrive in their postpartum and breastfeeding experience. I believe that we all deserve to have connected, balanced, and dedicated support throughout this time in our lives. My deepest hope as a lactation consultant is to help families meet their feeding goals while creating a deep bond of love. 

In addition to working in private practice and partnering with Bridgetown Baby, I work part-time at Legacy Salmon Creek as a lactation consultant. This hospital gives me the opportunity to regularly support babies (and their parents) with additional health challenges or stays in the NICU. 

Past work experiences in Portland include in-house lactation consultant at Sellwood Medical and Alma Midwifery. And, I learned so much supporting families in three different new parent support groups at Alma, Zenana and the Hammer & Jacks community room.

In my deeper past, I worked with new families for many years as a photographer, helping families capture and memorialize the precious and fleeting moments of childhood. My education includes a bachelors degree in fine art photography from San Francisco State and lactation specific education at Birthingway College of Midwifery.

I am currently billing directly to Blue Cross / Blue Shield, United Health, Aetna, Providence and MODA. I am always looking for ways help my clients receive insurance coverage for our appointments. If you do not have an insurance provider listed here, I will provide you with a detailed receipt for insurance reimbursement or can accept HSA/FSA cards as payment. 

In my free time I enjoy spending time with my wife and son, gardening, traveling, cooking, reading, watching movies, singing, dancing and goofing around with my friends and kid.

Hi, I'm Melissa Curry, IBCLC! I love radically supporting families in their feeding goals, knowing that compassionate, individualized, evidence-based postpartum care has a ripple effect in each person’s immediate and long-term parenting journey. I strive to help parents understand what their babies are telling them and increase their confidence as new parents. 

I love being a private practice Lactation Consultant. In addition to my role here with Portland Lactation, I partner with Bridgetown Baby and Luna Lactation & Wellness. I also provide telehealth lactation support to people all over the country and in other parts of the world in my work with Cleo. I love the teaching aspect of my role and offer group Feeding Basics for New Parents classes through Birth First Education Center and Ready Set Grow. 

I've been working with families in the childbearing year for over two decades. I started my career as a Certified Professional Midwife and had a thriving home birth practice. While I loved supporting families throughout their pregnancies and attending births, it was the births of my own children that made me realize how lacking postpartum support is for most families. I decided to pivot to lactation, which combines my favorite elements of postpartum care: new parents, new babies, fascinating science, and detective work. I find my deep knowledge around pregnancy and birth helps inform my role as a lactation consultant. My life's work is helping ease the transitions new families face.

I am currently an in-network provider with with Blue Cross, Blue Shield, United, Aetna and MODA and I am always looking for ways help my clients receive insurance coverage for our appointments. If you do not have an insurance provider listed here, I will provide you with a detailed receipt for insurance reimbursement and can accept HSA/FSA cards as payment. 

In my free time, I enjoy exploring hanging with my husband and kids, exploring new places, traveling near and far, reading, and growing food and flowers.