Meet Our Instructors

Gail Macklin RN BSN IBCLC

Gail is a registered nurse, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has an extensive background in Maternal/Child Health. Gail started her career as a pediatric nurse at Children's Memorial Hospital, and she worked as an OB nurse at Evanston Hospital for eight years. She worked as a school nurse at Meridian Middle School, and she was one of the Lactation Consultants at Good Shepherd Hospital for five years, assisting families with babies in the standard and the Special Care Nursery. Gail currently works with many corporations, setting up and instituting corporate lactation programs. Her dream for many years was to open a state-of-the-art lactation center in the Chicagoland area to offer one-on-one in-person lactation assistance to new moms in the community. Her dream was realized in May of 2009, when she opened New Mother New Baby, a lactation center, mother/baby boutique, and education center. Gail is also a student of reknowned physician and herbalist Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, and she is completing a course, entitled Foundations in Herbal Medicine. She is thrilled to provide Northbrook and the surrounding communities with a natural parenting store with up-to-date information on a variety of topics! Gail is also a certified infant massage instructor. Most recently in 2017, Gail and New Mother New Baby works with Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital coordinating their inpatient lactation services. 

 Lesley Karasinski IBCLC

Lesley is a trained Midwife and Doula from the U.K. and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.  She has worked with new mums and babies for many years in both the hospital and community setting. She has three children, all whom were born in the United States. Lesley teaches the new moms group, "Starting our Right"  and is a very popular instructor and very much loved by all her students. 

Lesley is the "Mary Poppins" of New Mother New Baby; she is always taking care of the staff, and mothering us, and giving us great life advice!

 Jill Rabin M.S. CCC-SLP/L IBCLC

Jill Rabin is a pediatric speech pathologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has been working with babies at risk for feeding issues for the last 24 years. She frequently works with assisting infants with Down syndrome, preemies, and/or babies who may have more challenges with feeding, to transition to the breast. She also has extensive experience with working with babies/toddlers with feeding aversion, and provides weekly therapy to many of these clients. She worked as a speech pathologist and lactation consultant at Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where she developed a feeding program in the NICU for at-risk babies. She later worked at Prentice hospital as a lactation consultant. She is an early intervention evaluator and provider, and currently has her own private practice. She has done presentations/workshops on infants with feeding issues, with an emphasis on breastfeeding. She speaks Spanish and has strong knowledge of American Sign Language.

Mallory Rose

Mallory C. Rose, LMFT, is in private practice at RoseFamilyTherapy. She holds a Master of Science degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Family Institute at Northwestern University, and completed a two-year clinical fellowship at the Family Institute as well. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Women Studies at the University of Michigan. She enjoys suburban life with her husband of six years, and their one-year-old son.

Vicki Dank

Vicki teaches the Infant CPR classes at New Mother New Baby.

Dr. Sarah Allen

 Dr. Sarah Allen is a Northbrook psychologist with 20+ years of experience
 specializing in working with pregnancy and postpartum anxiety and depression,
 traumatic childbirth, and all the emotional issues that can come up when you
 are a new parent. She is the director of the Postpartum Depression Alliance of
 Illinois (a statewide non-profit that is dedicated to supporting maternal mental
 health). It is in that role that she runs the free Emotional Wellness for New
 Moms workshops at New Mother New Baby. She is a featured contributor for
 30SecondMom.com, has been interviewed for many articles and news stories, and
 has lots of great information on her blogand website. Visit 
 www.drsarahallen.com/pregnancy-postpartum to download your FREE booklet "A
 Guide To Pregnancy & Postpartum Stress, Anxiety & Depression"