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Our Providers
Ora Feeding is made up of an exceptional team of lactation providers, with extensive training in complex feeding issues. All providers are mentored closely by co-owners Grace and Yukari, and collaborate extensively to provide you with the highest level of care.
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For over a decade, Grace has helped families achieve their infant feeding goals and transition as joyfully and gently as possible into parenthood. As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, she offers families evidence-based care and support for common to complex infant feeding challenges. Her holistic, goals-based approach to lactation support is informed by her background in midwifery and doula work both domestically and internationally, and her work as a Reproductive Health Educational Consultant at Duke and UNC School of Medicine.
Grace has extensive training and experience with complex feeding issues—including but not limited to Tethered Oral Tissue (tongue, lip and buccal ties), cardiorespiratory disorders, endocrine disorders, and enteral feeding support—and works closely with pediatricians, midwives, osteopaths, ENTs and other providers to help families achieve optimal feeding.
CO-FOUNDER
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Yukari (she/her) decided to pursue a career in lactation after having trouble with tongue and lip ties for both of her children. The lactation consultants who were vital to her successful breastfeeding journeys inspired her to help other parents find joy in feeding their babies.
Yukari believes in providing evidence-based care to achieve every parents’ feeding goals, whether it be body/breastfeeding, hybrid, or bottle feeding (with or without formula!). She has extensive training and experience in Tethered Oral Tissue (tongue, lip and buccal ties) and has a special interest in airway health.
Born in Japan and raised in Boston, MA, Yukari has lived in NYC for 16 years. She lives in Prospect Heights with her husband, Tim, and her 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter. When she’s not studying or running after her two young children, her hobbies are learning, napping, snowboarding, and all things food (she’s also a trained chef!).
Yukari is bilingual in Japanese and English and can support families in both languages. 日本語でも母乳育児サポートをさせていただいてるので、遠慮なくお問い合わせください。
CO-FOUNDER
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Emma (she/her) is a Certified Breastfeeding Counselor with over 6 years of experience practicing in New York and a passionate supporter of moms and babies. She was inspired to enter this field by her own mother, Pamela Douglas MD, IBCLC, and the countless nurturing women she has met on her own journey into motherhood.
Emma uses evidence-based, holistic care to support all families within their own unique situations to meet their breastfeeding goals in a joyful and workable way. She incorporates within her work the approach of Gestalt Breastfeeding and has extensive experience with Tethered Oral Tissue (TOTs or tongue, lip, and buccal ties). Fundamentally, Emma strongly believes in the incredible ability of mothers and their babies to work together and nourish one another.
Born and raised in Brisbane, Australia, Emma has lived in NYC for 14 years. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Danny, step-daughter, Tierney (15) and son Torin (7). Her passions include film, music, reading (mostly epic fantasy sagas), winning at canasta, running (stupidly long distances) and adoring her friends and family.
IBCLC CANDIDATE 2025
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Cori (she/her) has been practicing as a lactation professional since 2018, but has been helping women breastfeed as a doula since 2001. She is a DONA trained Birth Doula and co-founder of Dos Doulas. Additionally she is a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator, Certified Breastfeeding Counselor and trained Postpartum Doula.
Cori attended her first birth in 1996 and has been hooked ever since, supporting hundreds of pregnant and laboring individuals over the years. She trained to become a birth assistant at the Farm in Tennessee and is continuously adding to her knowledge with Tethered Oral Tissues (aka TOTs or tongue, lip, and buccal ties) trainings and Neonatal Resuscitation trainings. This experience and education has allowed her to support families all throughout New York City for over 20 years.
Born and raised in New York, Cori and her husband Kodjo live in Brooklyn with their two children, Ollie and Ivy, both born in their Park Slope apartment. Her hobbies include knitting, reading good books, bringing Ginger the dog to the park and hanging with her family in Brooklyn and beyond.
IBCLC CANDIDATE 2025
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Guramrit (she/her) is a Certified Lactation Counselor, in addition to being a birth/postpartum doula and co-owner of Ashe Birthing Services and the co-founder of The Bridge Directory.
After studying Magazine Journalism at Syracuse University, Guramrit spent years working at various publications, including Parenting Magazine, before transitioning into marketing. During this time, she also completed training as a holistic health counselor while publishing her first cookbook, Yogi Eats. Through her interactions her with her audience and clients, she became involved in birth work. Regardless of the industry, each path shared the common denominator of amplifying the voices of families in under-served communities, especially in New York City and throughout New York State.
Nurturing, educating, and uplifting families during transformational moments are essential to her work as both a doula and a lactation counselor. Her commitment to this has only been deepened by becoming a mother to a son and daughter. Through their breastfeeding journeys, Guramrit was inspired to seek additional training and mentoring in Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTs) and airway health.
When not working with patients, Guramrit is pursuing a master's degree in Infant + Maternal Nutrition with a focus on a holistic approach to pregnancy, postpartum, and infant/toddler feeding. Guramrit is International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) Candidate for Fall 2024 and is the recipient of the Fall 2023 IBCLC Education Scholarship from the US Lactation Consultants Association.
IBCLC CANDIDATE 2024
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Simone (she/her) is an IBCLC with extensive experience as a birth and postpartum doula. Simone has worked with WIC as a breastfeeding counselor and as a La Leche League leader. She currently provides peer-to-peer support via the Chocolate Milk Cafe and has worked within both Woodhull and Methodist hospitals, providing lactation education and childbirth education.
Simone is skilled evaluating a broad spectrum of feeding issues, including Tethered Oral Tissues (aka TOTs or tongue, lip, and buccal ties) and other infant feeding complications.In her free time, she loves spending time with her two children and practicing her rollerskating! A native New Yorker, Simone now shares her time between New York City and North Carolina.
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Clare Gagne is an international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) who became interested in lactation and feeding support after the birth of her first child in 2017.
In 2021, she completed her clinical hours at Jamaica Queens Medical Center serving a diverse group of New York City families. She immediately loved the process of supporting people through their transition into parenthood and ensuring their baby thrived.
Clare strives to provide compassionate, evidenced-based care to help families reach their feeding goals — whatever they might be. She has extensive understanding of feeding issues including Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTs, or tongue/lip/buccal ties). While her clinical knowledge goes far beyond what she learned in her personal experiences of feeding, both of her children taught her how complicated feeding can be, both physically and emotionally.
During her free time Clare loves to read, hike, cook and hang out with her family. She lives in Ridgewood, Queens with her husband, 6 year old son, and 2 year old daughter.
Our Staff
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Nina Fixell Castro, CLC
CLINICAL DIRECTOR
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Jenna Meyer
PRACTICE ADMINISTRATOR
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