As an OB/GYN nurse, Certified Lactation Expert and with a degree in Child Development, Marsha has over 20 years experience working with parents and young children.

Marsha is a Certified Lactation Educator as well as a home care nurse with Sutter Visiting Nurse Association (Marin and San Francisco). Marsha has been a volunteer for the American Red Cross since 1993.

She has led mother’s groups and taught parenting classes at the Center for Creative Parenting in Larkspur and Novato, California. She has authored many articles for "Parenting Passages" as well as other journals. She has been written about in the "Wall Street Journal," "Variety," and other publications across the United States.

Marsha has lectured on child development issues both nationally and internationally.
She has presented to mother’s groups all over the San Francisco Bay Area.
Recently she lectured health professionals in Bucharest and Sibu, Romania and volunteered at hospitals for abandoned children there.

Marsha Podd truly is one of the gifted "baby whisperers" of the world.