Dr. Melanie Beingessner graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College of Toronto, Ontario, in 1997.  Since then, she has become a breastfeeding counsellor and a certified infant massage instructor of the International Association of Infant Massage.

Dr. Beingessner is the author of The Calm Baby Cookbook, written to help breastfeeding moms calm their fussy, colicky babies by changing their diets.  She is also the co-founder of the Becoming Parents Prenatal program, that helps women and their partners learn that they can birth their babies and what to do with them after they are born.  She is currently writing a book based on the principles of the Becoming Parents Prenatal Program