Breastfeeding Medicine Association of Aotearoa

Dr Yvonne LeFort has practiced Breastfeeding Medicine for over 20 years and runs a private Breastfeeding Clinic on Auckland’s North Shore. She is a Fellow of the RNZCGP and the Canadian College of Family Physicians. In 2025 she became Board certified in Breastfeeding Medicine (NABBLM-C). She is a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, having served seven years on the Board of Directors, and remains an active member of the Protocol, Governance and WHO Code Compliance Committees.

She serves on the board of the New Zealand Breastfeeding Alliance and is a member of both the World Breastfeeding Trends Initiative NZ and the Human Milk Association of Aotearoa New Zealand.

She is the first author of the ABM’s Position Statement on Ankyloglossia and Breastfeeding Dyads (2021), a contributor to the New Zealand Aotearoa National Guidance for the Assessment, Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Tongue-Tie in Breastfeeding Neonates and a co-author of Complications and Misdiagnoses associated with Infant Frenotomy (2022). She is the senior author of the team revising the ABM Clinical Protocol on Ankyloglossia in Breastfeeding Infants. Her current research focuses on the clinical assessment process for treatment of ankyloglossia in infants.

Dr Whitney Davis is a GP Fellow and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant working as a Breastfeeding Medicine doctor in Tauranga. She has established a private breastfeeding medicine practice, Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic, and a tongue tie assessment/frenotomy clinic at Tauranga Hospital. She has previously completed Neuroprotective Developmental Care accreditation through Possums Clinic, and is passionate about providing supportive dyadic care to mothers, infants and their wider whanau during the First 1000 days.

Dr Beth Shore is GP Fellow with an extended role in Breastfeeding Medicine, she completed medical school in Manchester, England before moving to Christchurch where she completed her GP fellowship training.
In addition to her work as a GP she established Dr Beth’s Baby Clinic in 2024, providing evidence based infant feeding support. Beth is passionate about providing breastfeeding education to health professionals and whanau.

Dr Katie Fourie is a GP Fellow and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, specialising in Breastfeeding Medicine. She works as a breast physician at Waikato Breast Care Centre and Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic. She volunteers in breastfeeding advocacy and has active roles in the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, Breastfeeding Medicine Network Australia / New Zealand, and La Leche League New Zealand.

Dr Lauren Fisher is a New Zealand GP Registrar with an extended role in Breastfeeding Medicine. She completed medical school at Otago University and worked in various locations in the South Island before settling with her family in Dunedin.

In addition to her work as a GP in Dunedin she established a private sleep and breastfeeding support service in 2024. She has had training in Neuroprotective Developmental Care (NDC) and is currently completing further training through IABLE (Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education). Lauren is passionate about contributing to the improvement in evidence-based support for parents and babies.