

Research Team
Farrah Sheehan, MSN, RN, IBCLC
Farrah Sheehan, MSN, RN, IBCLC
Nurse Educator, Researcher, and Consultant, Farrah Sheehan Perinatal Professional Services
Farrah is a perinatal nurse educator, researcher, and consultant whose work focuses on respectful, equitable, and supportive care for all families, birth trauma recovery, and care for substance-exposed infants and their families. Through her business, Perinatal Professional Services, Farrah provides lactation care and birth trauma recovery support as a certified Birth Story Listener. She provides training and education on respectful, equitable, and supportive care to perinatal teams seeking to improve the quality of care they provide through reflective practices and compassionate communication. Farrah recently completed service as faculty in the National Institute of Health clinical trial “ACT NOW” researching the Eat Sleep Console Care Tool, and helped lead the implementation Eat Sleep Console with the Northern New England Quality Improvement Network (NNEPQIN). Farrah serves on NH’s Perinatal Substance Exposure Taskforce, and as a research nurse for MOms in REcovery (MORE), a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) awarded study.
Besides her lifelong work as a nurse caring for and serving families, Farrah’s other passions include raising her fantastic teenagers, researching her Irish ancestry, and writing parenting and birth-related blogs and articles. Farrah loves to travel, explore in nature, practice yoga, paint, sketch and spend time with her family. She lives in Amherst, NH
Selected Publications
- Goodman D, Zagaria AB, Flanagan V, Deselle FS, Hitchings AR, Maloney R, Small TA, Vergo AV, Bruce ML. Feasibility and acceptability of a checklist and learning collaborative to promote quality and safety in the perinatal care of women with opioid use disorders. J Midwifery Womens Health. 2019 Jan;64(1):104-111. doi: 10.1111/jmwh.12943. PMID: 30695159.