Meet Our Team

In addition to Grace, our team includes two highly experienced LCs who provide non-judgemental, evidenced-based care. You're welcome to see Grace, Simone, or Emma—or a combination of all three!

Simone Toomer

Simone Toomer is an IBCLC with extensive experience as a birth and postpartum doula. Simone has worked with WIC as a breastfeeding counselor and as a La Leche League leader. She currently provides peer-to-peer support via the Chocolate Milk Cafe and has worked within both Woodhull and Methodist hospital providing lactation education and childbirth education.

Simone is skilled evaluating a broad spectrum of feeding issues, including Tethered Oral Tissue (tongue tie) and other infant feeding complications. In her free time, she loves spending time with her two children and practicing her rollerskating!

Emma McCabe

Emma is a Certified Breastfeeding Counselor with over 5 years of experience practicing in New York and a passionate supporter of moms and babies. She was inspired to enter this field by her own mother, Pamela Douglas MD, IBCLC, and the countless nurturing women she has met on her own journey into motherhood. 

Emma uses evidence-based, holistic care to support all families within their own unique situations to meet their breastfeeding goals in a joyful and workable way. She incorporates within her work the approach of Gestalt Breastfeeding and has extensive experience with Tethered Oral Tissue (tongue ties). Fundamentally, Emma strongly believes in the incredible ability of mothers and their babies to work together and nourish one another. 

Jenna Meyer

Jenna is our office manager and biller extraordinaire! Please contact her at gracemacnairbilling@gmail.com with questions regarding insurance covered visits and out-of-network claims.

Cori Pleune

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Cori Pleune has been practicing as a lactation professional since 2018, but has been helping women breastfeed as a doula since 2001.  She is a DONA trained Birth Doula and co-founder of Dos Doulas. Additionally she is a Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator, Certified Breastfeeding Counselor and trained Postpartum Doula. Cori attended her first birth in 1996 and has been hooked ever since, supporting hundreds of pregnant and laboring individuals over the years. She trained to become a birth assistant at the Farm in Tennessee and is continuously adding to her knowledge with Tethered Oral Issue trainings and Neonatal Resuscitation trainings. This experience and education has allowed her to support families all throughout New York City for over 20 years. 

Born and raised in New York, Cori and her husband Kodjo live in Brooklyn with their two children, Ollie and Ivy, both born in their Park Slope apartment. Her hobbies include knitting, reading good books, bringing Ginger the dog to the park and hanging with her family in Brooklyn and beyond.