Nourri-Source Laval is a self-help and support organization for breastfeeding. More than 60 experienced volunteers have chosen to get involved to promote and encourage breastfeeding. The particularity of the Nourri-Source network and what makes it famous is the flexibility that breastfeeding godmothers demonstrate during their interventions with mothers.
Offer listening, support and advice to families who want to live the experience of breastfeeding. Support, encourage, educate, develop, and implement training programs for any person or group with an interest in breastfeeding.
Through this mission, we wish to contribute to improving the health of the Laval population by increasing the number of positive breastfeeding experiences.
This mission is mainly reflected in:
- Breastfeeding support that our customers can receive by going to our breastfeeding stops.
- Attentive listening and breastfeeding support thanks to our twinning service with volunteer breastfeeding sponsors.
- Promotion and awareness of breastfeeding by ensuring a presence at various family events and by collaborating with local partners.
- The development of training activities aimed at disseminating knowledge and knowledge related to breastfeeding in order to provide better support.
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Mélany has been part of the Nourri-Source Laval team since 2025. A mother of two, she was supported by a breastfeeding godmother at a pivotal moment when loneliness, hormonal drops and doubts confronted her with the complexity of the postnatal period. This experience marked his commitment to want, in turn, to take care of those who are going through this unique and sometimes fragile moment of motherhood.
At the head of the organization, she supports the team with kindness, ensures the smooth running of projects, the stability of the organization, and the outreach of its services. She puts her management expertise at the service of a mission that deeply inhabits her: to accompany families with gentleness, clarity and heart.
Sabrina was first responsible for communications and volunteers to become the organization’s coordinator. Behind her screen, she uses creativity to improve the organization’s visibility and promote its activities and services. The main functions of the coordinator are to manage the human, material and financial resources of the organization, develop and implement policies ensuring the proper functioning of the organization, and develop a communication (marketing) strategy. external and internal, represents the organization at important forums in collaboration with team members as well as any other mandate entrusted to it by the board of directors.
What Sabrina loves most about her role at Nourri-Source Laval is being able to combine her professional skills and her love of motherhood by using her creativity while helping other families.
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Jeannik joined our team as a breastfeeding mentor in 2020 before becoming the Volunteer Coordinator in 2022. After two years of excelling in this role, she is now ready to guide families through their breastfeeding journeys.In her new position as a breastfeeding counselor, Jeannik will lead breastfeeding support groups and manage the rental and sale of breast pumps. Her passion for breastfeeding and her commitment to supporting families make her a valuable asset to our team.
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Josée-Anne has always been passionate about helping others, especially in the areas of maternity and breastfeeding. She loves being on the ground to organize activities and provide support wherever it is needed. She joins our team as Project and Volunteer Coordinator, full of ideas and projects aimed at promoting breastfeeding and raising awareness of our services.
Cindy holds the position of administrative agent for Nourri-Source Laval, while also serving as a breastfeeding mentor for Nourri-Source Montreal. Her previous experience in a gynecologist clinic allowed her to develop a deep understanding of the needs of perinatal clients. In her current role, she is responsible for the smooth administrative functioning of the organization, which includes managing documentation, coordinating schedules, providing logistical support for activities, and other tasks assigned by the coordinator.As a mother of three young children, Cindy felt a natural desire to join the team, being particularly sensitive to the realities of motherhood. She is convinced of the importance of a supportive community for families, which guides her commitment to Nourri-Source.
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Anny Pier, IBCLC Lactation Consultant, offers private breastfeeding consultations for families in the region, offering a virtual service as part of a community lactation clinic.
Well known in the Nourri-Source network, Anny-Pier has been actively involved at various levels, notably with Nourri-Source Lac St-Jean. She stands out for her warm, dynamic, and reassuring approach, ensuring personalized support for each family.
Rosalia Perez is a mother of three and a trilingual lactation consultant (French, Spanish, English) specializing in supporting families from the very first days of their baby’s life. Her approach is gentle, inclusive, and evidence-based, with particular attention to listening to the needs of each parent and baby. Rosalia welcomes families with care and respect, honoring their pace and their choices. She offers private consultations either at the Nourri-Source Laval office or directly in the family's home.
President of the Board of Directors and committed to it since 2019 in various roles, Karine draws on her experience in human resources management and organizational transformation. Driven by a deep commitment to the organization’s mission, it contributes to its outreach, sustainability and mobilization of people.
Breasfeedind support volunteer since 2015 and mother of three breastfed children thanks to the support of Nourri-Source, she knows closely the importance of having access to fast services, close and full of kindness and she invests with conviction so that other families can benefit from this precious community.
Jessica is a lawyer and the mother of a little girl. Breastfeeding has always been an important aspect for her in her maternity ward. She was greatly supported by Nourri-Source throughout her journey, both prenatal and postnatal.
Today, it is with great pleasure and gratitude that she wishes in her turn to get involved in her own way at Nourri-Source Laval by joining the board of directors as vice-president, in addition to having been a breastfeeding sponsor for just over a year.
A breastfeeding peer supporter since 2011, Inomia also serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors. Trained as an Early Childhood Educator and Special Education Technician, she previously managed a private unsubsidized daycare and now works as an educator in a school setting.
Inomia is generous, patient, flexible, compassionate, cheerful, persistent, detail-oriented, and positive. She genuinely enjoys helping others. Highly organized, she loves planning and putting things in order.
She is also the mother of four children, all of whom she breastfed.
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As the mother of two children born in a birth centre, Noémy was able to benefit from midwifery support, which greatly supported her breastfeeding from the very first days. She works for the project Ensemble pour accueillir la vie where she is involved in perinatality, a subject that fascinates her.
Convinced that support for new parents is essential to build a solid future, she chose to get involved in the Nourri-Source board of directors to contribute to this mutual aid mission.
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Amina is a proud mother of two children and has been a breastfeeding support volunteer since 2023. She decided to get involved in the organization so that she could help mothers with similar difficulties as those she experienced.
Being part of the board allows him to give back to others and support an organization that is close to his heart.
Mother of two boys and pharmacist by trade, Jihanne became a breastfeeding godmother in 2015. She has been involved in various areas of the organization such as nursing stations, twinning and the management committee. Being very attached to the mutual aid mission of Nourri-Source but lacking time for sponsorship, Jihanne has decided to join the board so she can continue her commitment to the organization.
Mother of two young girls and godmother since the fall of 2025. Having given birth to her first premature daughter at CHU Sainte-Justine, she was guided by IBCLC to begin her journey with breastfeeding, followed by mixed breastfeeding and finally exclusive breastfeeding that has lasted for over 30 months.
Sasha has experience as a psychosocial worker, which helps her in her interventions with her goddaughters and loved ones. She is passionate about helping women experience their breastfeeding as a wonderful adventure filled with beauty, gentleness, and complicity with their babies.
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