Connie Blokkum APRN, MSN, CNM, IBCLC

Connie Blokkum is a Certified Nurse Midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant offering home birth, birth center birth, and lactation consultation services to the Katy area. Connie has over 27 years of experience working with nursing mothers and babies.

Services

Connie’s birth and lactation services include: prenatal care, home birth, birth center birth, postnatal care up to 6 weeks for mother and baby, water birth, well woman care including labs and physicals, primary care for women of all ages, menopausal support, ultrasound services, mother to mother support, lactation consultation, breastfeeding classes, bra fitting, breast pump & accessories sales and rentals, private newborn care and breastfeeding classes, herbs and homeopathy.

Education and Experience

Connie Blokkum is a Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) with a Master of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Cincinnati in Midwifery. She is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Advanced Practice RN in women’s health. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Registered Lactation Consultant.

Connie has dedicated over 27 years of combined experience working with mothers and babies.  After graduating from Houston Baptist University School of Nursing in 1981 with a BS in Nursing, she began working in oncology and medical surgical nursing. Since 1985 she has worked extensively with mothers and babies in the newborn nursery, the NICU, as a midwife assistant, a doula and as a lactation consultant.

In 1998 she began teaching breastfeeding and baby care classes. In 2000 she became the Lactation Counselor for Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital and started their first lactation program. She received her IBCLC Certification in 2001 and is a Registered Lactation Consultant.

In 2003 she began private practice Lactation Consultation and began attending home births as a labor/birth assistant for Cathy Rude LM, CPM. Connie has given support in labor for over 230 births, including her own Doula and midwifery clients.

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