Angela Cannon, D.M.A. “Issy” is the mother of three beautiful children. She is a stay at home Mom during the day who works in the evenings as a professional musician. She experienced the heartbreak of chronic low milk supply with her first two babies had to supplement both of them. Both babies weaned at 5 months of age. She has been an active member of MOBI since 2003 and she has acquired many tools to overcome low milk supply. Through the support of the wonderful women at MOBI she has been able to exclusively breastfeed her third child. This is an amazing accomplishment, considering that she made only 2-4 ounces total for the day during those first few weeks when she was pumping for her second child.

Angela has collected tips during her breastfeeding journey for increasing milk supply, for dealing with low milk supply, for successfully breastfeeding with subsequent children, for occupying the kids while pumping, and for dealing with overactive letdown and oversupply of milk. Through her experiences in trying to nurse her babies, she has also learned how to teach a premature baby to nurse, how to use supplemental nursing devices, how to cupfeed, how to woo an older baby back to the breast after the baby has weaned from the breast, how to manage the challenges of combining nursing, supplementing and pumping, and how to exclusively pump to provide milk for a baby. Since her first two children are 11 months apart in age, she has dealt with many challenges in caring for her two babies while nursing and pumping for her second child, who was premature. When her third child was born she had three children under the age of three, as the first two children were then 1 and 2 years old.

In her non-breastfeeding life Angela has a doctorate in music and she is a professional flutist. She holds the position of principal flutist with the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City; she performs in several ensembles, and she appears in concert as a member of the Fiori Trio and the Hoffman Duo. She teaches private lessons in flute, piano and chamber music, and she is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where she serves as a faculty member of the Conservatory of Music’s Community Music and Dance Academy. She specializes in teaching flute and in teaching the very young beginning piano student, with specialized instructional techniques for this population of students ages 3-6.