About Us

Ever wonder what your breastfeeding professional's credentials mean? Find out with the United States Lactation Consultant Association's (USLCA) Who's Who in Lactation in the USA?

Kathleen Moren, RN BSN IBCLC, Founder, CEO and Administrator

Kathy has had a long and rewarding career in Neonatal Intensive Care, home healthcare, hospital and corporate lactation consulting. She feels very grateful to be the founder of Healthy Babies, Happy Moms Inc. She started HBHM Inc. 11 years ago in an attempt to further her career in a profession she loved, while staying home with her young sons. It has provided her with countless wonderful opportunities to work with mothers and babies, and further ignited her passion for breastfeeding support as a public health issue. She also enjoys a Social Behavioral Science faculty position at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, where she has taught second year medical students for the last three years. Most importantly, she has been blessed with a loving and supportive husband, four terrific sons, and a sweet golden retriever. Her hobbies include reading, hanging with her boys at the beach and running half marathons. She is tremendously fortunate to work with the women listed below, who are equally responsible for making HBHM Inc. what it is today.

Dee Egglin, RN MPH CLC

Dee is a registered nurse and a certified lactation counselor. She has experience in surgical nursing and home health care with a special interest in outpatient public health programs. Dee is the mother of four sons, including twins, and based on her experience nursing all of them, she has become a passionate advocate for breastfeeding. In her spare time, she enjoys working out, gardening and reading.

Kathy Ross, RN MHS IBCLC, Director of Nursing

Healthy Babies, Happy Moms Inc. has allowed Kathy to pursue her passion of working with mothers and babies. Nothing is more satisfying to her than seeing a healthy baby with a happy mother successfully bonding and breastfeeding. She has been fortunate in her life to have had rewarding work experiences as a pediatric nurse, researcher, administrator and lactation consultant. She is also grateful for a wonderful family. Her relationships with her husband and three sons are her proudest accomplishment. Teenagers can be a challenge, but are mostly a delight. Besides taking care of her family and working, her hours are filled with gardening, swimming, reading and watercolor painting.

MaryBeth is a registered nurse and a board certified lactation consultant. She has cared for people of all ages, but most of her experience is in pediatrics. She especially enjoys working with families, providing breast-feeding mothers with the support and resources they need to realize this most special bond. She is married, and the mother of two teenage daughters. When her children were younger, she spent countless hours volunteering at their schools and in her community. She also volunteers weekly at her church. Her favorite hobby is running, but she also enjoys kayaking, hiking, and spending a beautiful summer day at the beach.

Bethany Verret, Marketing Director

Bethany is a stay-at-home mom of two young children and a pug. Her passion is parenting, and her work experience includes marketing and advertising in the fields of medicine, education and real estate. She has been working with HBHM Inc. for over 3 years and after nursing her own two children, loves that she can contribute to helping other mothers achieve their breastfeeding goals. Her hobbies include knitting, reading, taking pictures and eating chocolate chip mint ice cream!

Mary Beth Waggoner, Office Manager

Mary Beth had been a stay-at-home mom for 14 years when she began working for HBHM Inc. as the Office Manager in November of 2009. During those years she volunteered in all aspects of her four children’s lives, enjoying every moment of it! She also has a very supportive husband and extremely high maintenance (but loveable) Chocolate Lab. Her work experience has been in customer service, international shipping and sales/commission forecasting. She is excited to be working with such caring and professional women. In her spare time she enjoys scrap-booking, gardening, physical fitness and spending time with loved ones.