Founder
Suzanne Juel
Founder of Bayou City Breastfeeding and Alamo City Breastfeeding. Lactation consultant, parenting author, and artist whose work centers on the early years of family life.
About Suzanne
Parents are the experts on their families
Suzanne Juel is the founder of Bayou City Breastfeeding and Alamo City Breastfeeding, a multi-location lactation and pediatric chiropractic practice serving families across Greater Houston and South Texas. Her work, clinical and creative, is built around a single conviction: parents are the experts on their families. The role of a clinician, a book, or a piece of art is to support that expertise, not to replace it.
She founded the practice to address a gap she saw across her clinical career. Modern infant care had grown efficient at the expense of continuity. Parents could find someone to answer one urgent question, but the deeper questions about feeding, sleep, development, and family life often went unanswered. She built a practice designed for those questions, and for the families asking them.
Beyond the practice, Suzanne writes books for parents, paints original work on the mother and child relationship, and teaches on oral restrictions in infant feeding. The subject matter is the same across the formats: the early years of family life, the choices parents make during them, and what it takes to support those choices well.
The practice and the body of work are different expressions of the same idea.
About the practice she leadsHow she came to this work
A difficult first feeding journey, and what it changed
Suzanne came to lactation through her own difficult feeding journey with her first child. Years of conflicting advice from multiple providers and no clear diagnosis shaped how she practices today. Her daughter’s underlying issue, a tongue tie and submucous cleft palate, was not identified until much later, and the tongue tie was ultimately revised in her teenage years because it was causing sleep apnea, mouth breathing, and orthodontic problems. That experience anchors Suzanne’s specialty work on oral restrictions in infant feeding and her insistence on looking past surface symptoms for the root cause.
Read Suzanne’s full breastfeeding storyClinical work
Practicing IBCLC, leading a team of more than twenty clinicians
Suzanne is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). The IBCLC is the internationally recognized board certification for lactation consultants, requiring clinical training, supervised practice hours, a comprehensive examination, and recertification on a defined schedule.
Her clinical focus areas include oral restrictions in infant feeding, complex feeding challenges, return-to-work transitions, and longitudinal feeding support across the first three years of life. She continues to see patients while leading the practice, which is built around a team of more than 20 IBCLCs and three pediatric chiropractors across ten offices in Greater Houston and South Texas.
The two clinical scopes within the practice, lactation consulting and pediatric chiropractic, operate distinctly. Suzanne practices within IBCLC scope and refers to her chiropractic colleagues when a family’s situation calls for that perspective.
More about the practice’s clinical approachBooks and writing
A five-book curriculum for the early years
Suzanne is the author of a five-book parenting curriculum centered on the early years of family life. The books work as a system rather than as five separate projects. A clinical anchor addresses infant feeding directly. Three extension layers cover early developmental formation, adult partnership during the transition to parenthood, and the identity work that gives the early years their long-term meaning. The fifth title is a culture-building workbook for the practical rhythms families build together. Across the five works, the throughline is the same: parents do the work of parenting; the books are tools and frameworks built to support them.
Family Traditions Workbook
AvailableThe culture-building tool. A guided workbook that helps parents thoughtfully shape the rhythms, rituals, and routines that give family life its stability and meaning. Designed for use during early parenthood, with material to return to as the family grows.
Available on AmazonNarrative Family Stories Workbook
Coming 2026The identity-building tool. Helps families intentionally create and repeat the meaningful stories that reinforce belonging, continuity, and shared identity across generations. A companion to the Family Traditions Workbook.
Comprehensive Breastfeeding Book
Target 2027The clinical authority anchor. A clinically rigorous reference on infant feeding, breastfeeding physiology, common challenges, decision-making, and long-term feeding support. Written for parents who want depth and for clinicians who want a reliable shared reference.
Emotional Intelligence from Infancy
In ProgressThe developmental layer. Explains how emotional regulation, co-regulation, attachment, and nervous system development begin in infancy. Extends the practice’s philosophy beyond feeding into early developmental formation.
Transition to Parenthood
In ProgressThe partnership stability layer. A look at adult partnership during early parenthood through the lens of stress physiology, sleep deprivation, energy management, and the nervous system strain that shapes how partners relate, repair, and stay connected. Not a marriage book. A transition science book.
Mother and Child Collection
Original paintings on early parenthood
The Mother and Child Collection is a series of original paintings by Suzanne exploring early parenthood. The visual work and the written and clinical work share the same subject matter; the medium is the only thing that changes. The collection is curated as part of the practice’s space and is available to view online.
View the Mother and Child Collection
Speaking
Oral restrictions, infant feeding, multidisciplinary care
Suzanne speaks primarily on oral restrictions in infant feeding: assessment, aftercare, and the multidisciplinary care that produces the best outcomes for families. Related topics include the IBCLC role in oral function care, integration with pediatric dentistry and speech-language pathology, and broader infant feeding support across the early years.
Recent engagements
- Continuing education class on oral function in infant feeding, co-taught with a pediatric dentist and a speech-language pathologistYear TBC
To inquire
For speaking inquiries, contact speaking@bayoucitybreastfeeding.com.
For press and media
Press kit and previous coverage
Contact
For press inquiries, contact press@bayoucitybreastfeeding.com.
A short third-person bio and a high-resolution professional headshot are available on request.
Previous coverage
- Houston ChronicleYear TBC
- Television interviewYear TBC
For partners and prospective team members
Working with the practice
Partnership and referrals
For partnership and referral inquiries, contact partnerships@bayoucitybreastfeeding.com.
The practice works with pediatricians, obstetricians, midwives, doulas, pediatric dentists, speech-language pathologists, and other clinicians whose patients overlap with ours.
Hiring and careers
For hiring inquiries, contact careers@bayoucitybreastfeeding.com.
The practice hires IBCLCs and pediatric chiropractors whose work aligns with its longitudinal, family-centered approach. Continuing education and case consultation across the team are part of how the practice operates.
Across the clinical work, the books, the paintings, and the teaching, the throughline is the same: supporting families through the earliest years, on their terms.