Madrid city (Spain)
+34 609 984 526
Carmela was born in Madrid, Spain in 1971.
She is a medical doctor, specialized in family medicine and in sexual therapy. She then became an IBCLC in 2005 and has been a BFHI Evaluator since 2006. She works in a private Family Wellness Clinic where she is in charge of the lactation program, as well as teaching natural family planning and doing sexual therapy.
She has extensive experience in breastfeeding training for medical and nursing professionals, doulas and breastfeeding counsellors. She and her team have trained over three thousand doctors, midwives and nurses from Public Hospitals in the Madrid area.
Carmela (whom everyone calls Kika) spent her childhood in the USA and is bilingual Spanish-English.
She is the author of “Amar con los Brazos Abiertos” (Marova, 2012), a book about breastfeeding and parenting in real life. She is happily married and mother of five children.
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