Angela Rockall

Training: Infant Development Consultant, Circle of Security Facilitator, Possums Sleep course, Tummy time method

“Meeting a child’s dependency needs is the key to helping that child achieve independence; and outgrow these needs according to their own unique timetable”.

Training: Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator, Infant Massage, Possum Sleep course, Tummy Time method

Angela has a Bachelor of Child and Youth Care (UVic). She has over 30 years of experience working with children and families in community and school settings. Angela has worked in Early Intervention for Kootenay Family Place for over 7 years, and has been with the Infant Development Program since 2019. She continue to have a lifelong passion in connecting with and supporting families with infants and children.

She is a mother of two wonderful sons- one adult, and one in high school. They continue to inspire her to make this world a better place, and work from an attachment centered approach, with compassion and understanding.

Judy Banfield

Training: International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Masters in early childhood education, La Leche League leader, early childhood educator and professor

Judy Banfield has been involved with babies, young children and families since she was 19 years old.

She has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and taught young children (2-8 year olds) for many years in a variety of Early childhood Settings (Daycare, Preschool, Parent Participation Preschool, and Headstart. She also ran the Demonstration Day Care at Vancouver Community College. She initiated the program, was the department head and taught in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada for 8 years.

Judy has been a La Leche League Leader (breastfeeding counselor) for 37 years and was an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant for 15 years.

Judy was one of the coordinators of the government-funded postpartum support program, Life After Birth for five years. In that role she offered one on one postpartum counselling, breastfeeding support, led weekly moms’ group and a Post Partum Depression program..

She is the proud mother of two thriving grown children, and was also the founder of Mountain Baby which she ran for 25 years.

Judith Fearing

Training: International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, RN

“By supporting healthy growth and development for new babies we can create a healthier and  happier world.”

I am grateful for a nursing career spanning 45 years + that has given me opportunities to work with and learn from so many people. My work has taken me from acute care hospital nursing in medical, surgical, maternity and operating rooms to community based clinics working in postpartum and breastfeeding support, teaching prenatal classes, sexual health clinic nursing and  teaching sexual health in schools. I have worked in rural and remote clinics where I was the only health care provider in the area to large urban maternity hospitals. And I have taught nursing at the college level to nursing students. I have always been drawn back to mothers, babies, and new families. I love supporting new families in getting a good start to grow into the healthiest people they can be.