Julie Bouchet
Julie Bouchet is a board-certified family nurse practitioner and lactation consultant. She received her Master of Science in nursing from Columbia University in 2006. She has worked with mothers and babies since 1987 as a childbirth educator, birth doula, midwifery assistant, La Leche League Leader, and lactation consultant.
Working in both hospital and community settings, she offers extensive experience with newborns, premature infants, and infants with special needs, assisting with challenges like latching, milk supply, infections, and multiples. Furthermore, as a nurse practitioner specializing in breastfeeding medicine, Julie can diagnose and treat complex challenging lactation issues, order necessary labs, and prescribe medications when required. She also provides comprehensive guidance on topics including returning to work, introducing solids, sleep issues, and weaning.
Julie is also a founder, former Executive Director, and current board chair emeritus of The New York Milk Bank, the first comprehensive nonprofit milk bank in the state. Inspired by her own experience adopting a daughter who thrived on donor milk, she spent years developing the organization to provide life-saving pasteurized donor human milk to premature and sick infants throughout New York and the Tri-State area.
Margot Chauncey
Margot’s passion for helping women thrive in the early stages of motherhood started at a young age. Some of her earliest memories include watching her own mom provide care for new babies and their mothers in her childhood home. As she eavesdropped on childbirth education classes, Le Leche League meetings, and homebirths, Margot’s passion only grew — sparking her early interest in breastfeeding.
After a career as a makeup artist in film and TV, Margot found her calling and returned to school to earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She graduated magna cum laude from the College of New Rochelle, and immediately went into the field of maternity. Margot has worked at BronxCare Hospital Center in mother baby, antepartum, and labor and delivery. Following that, she worked at Sunshine Children’s Home in pediatrics, a long-term facility. She earned her lactation training at BronxCare, mentored under Julie Bouchet, and interned in lactation at Phelps Memorial Hospital Center.
Margot lives in Ossining with her family and provides outpatient care and home visits to new mothers and their babies in the Hudson Valley. Overcoming her own breastfeeding challenges has given her a new perspective and appreciation for helping other women during this intimate and special time in their lives.
Becca DeAngelis – Office Manager
Becca is the office manager, handling calls, scheduling clients, submitting claims, calling in prescriptions and following up on any issues that may arise.
They spend their free time reading, eating, rigging, and teaching aerial arts.
Blair Kaplan – Administrative Assistant
Blair lives in Upstate New York with her husband, daughter, and their two dogs. She works remotely for Hudson Valley Breastfeeding, answering the phone, calling in prescriptions and scheduling and confirming appointments.
In her free time, she likes to go for runs or bike rides with her family.