Innovations PCfit LLC, In-Home Breastfeeding / Lactation Service

Montika Collins, BS, BSN, RN, CLC, IBCLC, RLC

Montika serves as an international board certified lactation consultant, a resource nurse, an activist, COBA (Coalition of Oklahoma Breastfeeding Advocates) Chair and an avid supporter of everything breastfeeding. She has worked with both premature and full term newborn mother/baby dyads to help them successfully breastfeed. Montika is passionate about expanding and improving breastfeeding support in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. She is the wife of her amazingly supportive husband Paul and the mother of their three “superhero” children, ages 2, 4, and 11, who were all extended breastfeeders.

Her research interests and experience include extended and tandem breastfeeding, socioeconomic disparities in birth outcomes, development of health care models to improve breastfeeding outcomes in African American women, development of health care models to lower African American infant mortality rates, and the impact of early postpartum progesterone-only contraception on lactation and birth spacing.

Montika holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Chemistry from Northeastern State University. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Oral Roberts University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and she is currently pursuing a Holistic Lactation certification.

In addition to COBA, Montika is an active member of Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing (STTI), La Leche League International (LLLI), Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA).

In 2011/2012 Montika was honored to receive the Every Day Hero award from Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) and the Save a Life Hero award from The Red Cross for saving the life of a four year old boy. She was recently instrumental in the rescue of her own son from a severe choking incident -- another great testimony to her courage and readiness in caring for children!

Montika lives in Broken Arrow, OK and offers lactation support for women who live in the surrounding areas.

Contact Montika:
pcfitllc@gmail.com

Find out more information about COBA at
www.okbreastfeeding.org