Translating the Language of the Newborn

Nancy T. McGinty is a Registered Nurse specializing in neonatal nursing with thirty years in the field. She earned a BA in Psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her career as a registered nurse began at a large children's hospital in Atlanta, Georgia where she worked on several medical/surgical units for six years. For the next twenty-four years, she worked in the well baby and neonatal intensive care nurseries of another large hospital in Atlanta and continues to serve as an IBCLC Lactation Consultant in that same hospital for twelve of those years. She is the mother of three and grandmother of six and lives with her husband in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.