Megan Macy, CLC CD

03/25/2026

“Your homework is to stand up and latch your baby” This is the advice I give a lot of my clients! I know it seems scary, but I promise you aren’t going to drop your baby. What you are going to do, is gain confidence. Confidence and comfortability handling your baby is the foundation of a good latch. Of course there are other factors like baby body tension, tethered oral tissues, babies palate shape. But before putting all our eggs in those baskets placing blame on a painful or shallow latch, we need to make sure we have the basics down💪

There is a lot of great information online and through classes to help you with your breastfeeding journey. But having hands on support is so much more beneficial than reading and videos. If you are pregnant, I recommend researching your local lactation support and setting up at least one visit with them postpartum. Seeing the lactation consultant in the hospital 24hrs after birth usually isn’t enough to carry you through to your breastfeeding goals.

To work with me in person or virtually comment “Latch” ⬇️

03/17/2026

I take a limited amount of birth clients per year in order to balance the primary postpartum work I do. If you are interested in hiring a birth/postpartum doula with a specialty in lactation, send me a message!
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I have attended many different types of births, in all kinds of locations. Homes, Birth Centers, Deaconess, Sacred Heart, Holy Family, Valley, Kootenai Health, Yakima Memorial Hospital. With many different local providers, OBGYN’s, Hospital Midwives, Professional Home Birth Midwives. I have experience supporting Cesarean birth, VBAC’s, twin birth (vaginal & cesarean) and I’ve been apart of some really smooth and safe home birth transfers to hospital. I work with first, second, third, fourth even fifth time mamas etc. Birth doulas aren’t just for first time parents! ☺️

If in person services aren’t the right option for you, I am now offering virtual birth, postpartum and feeding plans! 💻

03/10/2026

A birth workers mind is like a little filing cabinet. Shuffling through all the women who faced similar challenges and wins to what their current client is navigating. The advice you get from a birth worker isn’t the same advice you receive from your bestie or an online forum in the local moms group. It’s community knowledge being passed down for years from one woman to the next. You can find your way, because of all the mothers who went before you ❤️

03/09/2026

We are mammals! All mammals produce lactose in their breast milk 🤷🏼‍♀️ The reason sometimes cutting out dairy might help a baby with gas, reflux, rashes, mucusy, orange, or bloody stools is from something called “Cows Milk Protein Allergy” (CMPA) This is a protein present in bovine (cow) milk specifically. CMPA affects 2-7.5% of babies under 1 and tends to be more common in formula fed babies, but can affect breastfed babies as well. Most children outgrow CMPA by age 3.

03/06/2026

When we work together through pregnancy we make an entire plan to prepare for your specific feeding goals. During our prenatal 1:1 done in your home, we go over all your supplies.

Tag your pregnant bestie 🤰🏻🤰🏽🤰🏼

03/05/2026

Genuinely if my intuition said to, I would. But, it doesn’t so🤷🏼‍♀️

03/03/2026

This trend is too sweet not to take part in 🤠

02/26/2026

Pumping and Nursing are not one size fits all! What works for one mom doesn’t always work for another.

The biological design is to nurse your baby from your body at the babies demand. Nursing on demand- following the babies hunger cues, is the best way to ensure baby is getting all the milk they need. Nursing on demand doesn’t always look like 8-10 nursing sessions in a 24 hour period. Nursing frequency really depends on a mother’s breastmilk storage capacity! Babies have a natural nursing pattern that is in line with the mother’s breastmilk storage capacity. While some babies may nurse 8-10 times a day and get exactly what they need. Many babies need to nurse more frequently, maybe 12-16 times a day to get exactly what they need! This is why it’s important not to put nursing babies on a schedule or drop night feeds.

When moms are pumping milk for their babies, it can make it a little trickier to figure out how many pump sessions are needed to produce a full supply. Many moms are instructed to pump 8-10x per day. This may be enough pumping for some moms to produce a full supply, but for moms with a smaller breastmilk storage capacity this likely won’t be enough pump sessions to produce a full supply.

There is no way to look at a breast and know what its storage capacity is. A woman can have large breasts with a smaller storage capacity, and a woman can have small breasts with a larger storage capacity. What determines storage capacity is how much glandular (milk) making tissue makes up the breast compared to fatty tissue.

Do you think you have a larger or smaller storage capacity?
Let me know in the comments ⬇️

02/21/2026

This viral waterless chicken soup circling the internet uses traditional Chinese cooking techniques. I think this is a great postpartum soup that hits all the marks for nourishing a postpartum woman! It’s light, flavorful, warming, nutrient dense, collagen rich, full of healing properties, easy to digest.

Have you tried it yet?

02/17/2026

They will have different patterns, habits, and self soothing abilities. They are both sweet squishy babies getting fed! However, it’s not realistic to place the same expectations on them. A lot of my time spent counseling clients is on the differences in bottle feeding babies and nursing babies. I believe a large barrier preventing many women from reaching their nursing goals, is because they have expectations of a bottle feeding baby for their nursing baby. This is to no fault of the mother. But rather the information she has access to. Medical providers, family, media, society as a whole. Nursing babies had made a resurgence within our western culture after about 100 years of primarily bottle feeding babies. Having a realistic understanding of how and why babies behave the way they do in relation to how they are fed, will absolutely help you along your motherhood journey.

To work with me, email contact@themilklady.net

02/12/2026

The US Office on Women’s Health highlights Black celebrity moms who breastfeed for a reason.

Because representation changes norms.

When people see breastfeeding modeled by women who look like them
it stops feeling rare
it stops feeling questionable
it starts feeling possible.

For generations, Black women have faced
less support
more scrutiny
and fewer visible examples of breastfeeding being protected and celebrated.

So when public figures like Serena Williams, Beyoncé, Gabrielle Union, and Keke Palmer share their breastfeeding journeys
they aren’t oversharing.
They’re shifting the narrative.
They’re showing that breastfeeding belongs everywhere
in every body
in every community.
Normalize it by showing it.

Visibility is support
and support changes outcomes 🤱

🤱 Drop this if you breastfed longer than anyone expected you to
or longer than you expected
Your story matters.

11/23/2025