The Good Latch Cat

03/24/2026

Happy World Doula Week to all my doula friends!!! 🎉💜🎉💜 here are just a few I was able to tag below 🥰🥰🥰

CNY Born
Man Hue Duong
Lionheart Doula & Lactation
Erica Lynn Ciccone
Anastasiia Starukhina

This week we celebrate all the doulas who hold space: birth doulas, postpartum doulas, miscarriage and death doulas. The ones who show up, who witness, support, and honor every transition with deep compassion and respect 🙏

This work is sacred, and it matters more than words can fully capture.

Tomorrow at the Ilion Library Breastfeeding Café, we’re bringing that same energy into the room. I’m so excited to gather alongside incredible birth doulas and my OT friends to create a space where families can connect, ask questions, share stories, and feel supported exactly as they are.

Whether you’re pregnant, postpartum, navigating feeding, or simply looking for community-you are always welcome here 💜

Come sit with us, chat, learn, and be held in good company ☕️

-Cat Xx

💫 Please check out the Mohawk Valley Doula Coop page and share: https://www.mvdoulacoop.com/

03/19/2026

Yayyyy another Flow & Grow!!! 🎉🎉🎉 this series is so very special to me. There’s always magic here in our sweet circle of pregnant Mamas 🥰 This group is more than a class. Flow & Grow aligns body and spirit, empowers, builds confidence and more importantly, community 💜 Excited to meet you Mamas!🤰

Pregnant and looking for community and support?

Our Flow & Grow prenatal series is the perfect blend of movement, learning, and connection. Over 5 weeks, we’ll combine gentle prenatal yoga, intentional conversation, and practical education to help you feel more prepared for labor, birth, and postpartum.

Each Monday evening includes yoga, discussion, and a mini-class on topics like:
• Stages of labor
• Pain management techniques
• Breastfeeding with an IBCLC
• Creating your birth plan (partners welcome this week!)
• Postpartum recovery & newborn care

📍 Yoga Shala – Clinton
Mondays 6–8pm starting April 13
$225 for the full 5-week series

Come meet other local moms-to-be and start building your village.

✨ Registration is open now!
www.cnyborn.com/events or directly at:
https://app.doulado.co/client?eyJpbnRha2VfaWQiOiIyODkifQ%3D%3D=_

03/16/2026

March is Pregnancy After Loss Awareness Month-a reminder of how many hearts carry both hope and grief at the same time 💜

Today at 4pm we gather for Coffee & Grief in Clinton-a healing space for Mamas who have experienced pregnancy loss at any gestation age.

No expectations. No pressure to speak. Just a circle of women who understand, and the gentle healing that can happen when we sit together.

If your heart could use that kind of space, you are so welcome 🫶🏼

Sign up link below ☕

-Cat Xx

03/05/2026

Mamas, I have some beautiful news to share 💜

My practice is expanding!

I’m now offering office visits in Fayetteville at the incredible Alexandre Centre, a space that aligns so deeply with the heart of my work. When collaboration feels this natural and values align this seamlessly, you just know it’s meant to be!

Of course I’ll still be offering home visits for Mamas who love the comfort of home! And now, for those in or near Fayetteville who prefer a peaceful and healing office setting, you’ll have this option too 💜

More access and more support to Mamas 🥰🥰🥰

It feels really special to grow in this way friends, to continue showing up for families in the tender early days, whether that’s on your couch or in this beautiful new space 💜🙏 home or office, I’m honored to be here for you xoxo

Videos to come soon!

So much love,
Cat 🫶🏼

✨ We’re Expanding Our Support for Families! ✨

We are so excited to introduce Lactation Services at our Children’s Health Centre, now available to the entire community — not just established patients!

We are proud to collaborate with Catherine aka “Cat” McMullen, IBCLC, owner of The Good Latch Cat, a private lactation practice serving families throughout Central New York.

Welcoming a baby is beautiful… and sometimes breastfeeding comes with questions, challenges, or simply a need for reassurance. Catherine offers compassionate, evidence-based, mother-centered care to support families at every stage — whether you’re preparing prenatally, navigating the early newborn days, returning to work, or troubleshooting feeding concerns.

🤱 Personalized breastfeeding & pumping support
🏥 Convenient in-office visits
🏡 House calls available for families who prefer care at home
🧾 Insurance accepted
💛 Open to all families in our community

You do not need to be a current patient of our practice to schedule. These services are available to all families seeking skilled lactation support.

Because feeding your baby should feel supported, not stressful.

📞 Call our office to schedule or message us for more information.

Learn more about Cat of The Good Latch Cat at www.TheGoodLatchCat.com

03/04/2026

Today is IBCLC Day Mamas! Yes, we get a day 🎉🎉🎉

Today isn’t just about one lactation consultant.

It’s about the 39,000+ of us around the world who have devoted our lives to Mamas and babies 💜

Different countries. Different languages. Same sacred work…🙏

We sit at bedsides and kitchen tables. We answer midnight messages. We assess feedings and oral function, talk hormones and supply… and more importantly, we hold space for tears, doubt, and the immense becoming that happens in early Mamahood…

This work is clinical, yes.

Evidence-based. Skilled. Yes, all of that.

But friends, it is also deeply human…

There is something profoundly sacred about supporting a Mama as she learns to nourish her baby. About protecting that fragile window when confidence is still forming. About reminding her that her body is not broken, it is learning 💜

I truly cannot imagine “retiring” from this job. It feels less like a job and more like a calling woven into who I am…

So today, I celebrate the IBCLCs across the globe! The women (and men) who guard this tender space with knowledge, compassion, and fierce advocacy 🫶🏼💜🫶🏼💜

What an honor it is to stand alongside all of you.

Love,
Cat xoxo

03/02/2026

Good Morning Mamas and Happy March 💜🍀

For those new here, I’m Cat McMullen, an IBCLC in private practice and a Mama walking through my own secondary infertility journey. In a few weeks, March 16th from 4-5 pm, we’ll gather again for Coffee & Grief in Clinton, a sacred little space for those who have experienced pregnancy loss at any gestation age.

We’ll hold warm mugs in our hands while we sit together and share stories that live in our bodies.

We’ll speak their names or sit in silence.

And we’ll let the tears come if they need to.

This is a space where grief is not rushed, not judged.

Where hope is allowed to coexist.

Where you don’t have to explain why it still hurts.

You are seen here. You are held here. And you are not alone.

Please use the sign up link below or email me at BecomingMamaCat@Gmail.com 🫶🏼

-Cat Xx

02/25/2026

Good Morning Mamas 💜☀️

I hope you can make it out to the Breastfeeding Café today at the Ilion Library from 10-12 pm 🫶🏼

Come on over if you need extra breastfeeding/pumping support or just to meet new Mama friends 🥰

See you soon! ☕️

-Cat Xx

02/23/2026

Good morning Mamas! 💜 we have 3 breastfeeding cafes happening this week! Remember, you don’t need to have any issues-come out and meet some new Mama friends! 🫶🏼 ☕️

-Cat Xx

We have three opportunities for breastfeeding support this week. Will you join us?

💗 Tuesday - Mohawk Valley Lactation is at Dunham Library in Whitesboro from 10 - 12

🤱 Wednesday - The Good Latch Cat is at the Ilion Library from 10 - 12

📱 Wednesday evening - Join LLL leader, Chris, for virtual support on Zoom from 6 - 7:30

Zoom Details:
Meeting ID: 837 0750 8686
Password: 760504

If you need more details, please comment or send a message. We hope to see you this week! 🫶

02/17/2026

When a Father takes the time to write a review… it hits differently.

Breastfeeding is not just a Mother’s journey-it’s a family journey.

And having a supportive partner in the room, asking questions, learning, encouraging, protecting that feeding space-it changes everything…

One of the most powerful parts of my work is seeing partners fully present during our consults. Sitting beside her. Listening closely. Wanting to understand latch, supply, positioning, not because they have to, but because they love her and their baby 💜💜💜
Especially when baby arrives Earthside, I love bringing Dad in close to see what I’m doing to support Mama and remind him that he can do the same 🫶🏼

In his review, the Dad shared something that meant so much to me-that the emotional support I offer cannot be replicated 🥹😭🥹😭 That right there… that’s the heart of my work 🙏

Yes, we work on latch.
Yes, we talk milk transfer and feeding plans.
Yes, we make adjustments and strategies.

But what I truly hold space for is the emotional experience of becoming parents. The vulnerability. The exhaustion. The questioning. The identity shift.

And when a Father sees that, when he recognizes that support is not just clinical but deeply human….it tells me we did this together.

To the partners who show up: you matter more than you know!

To the Fathers who advocate for the Mothers of their children: Thank You!

And to this particular dad, your words meant the world to me.

This is why I do what I do. 🫶🏼💜

02/16/2026

Preparing for breastfeeding doesn’t begin when your baby arrives Earthside… it begins in the sacred season of becoming Mama…

This photo was taken while I was pregnant with Luke at my yoga teacher training retreat in the mountains of Arizona. There were three of us Mamas expecting, all due within months of one another. It felt Divinely timed.

There was a moment I’ll never forget, when I look back it was very much like a blessing-way. A ceremony for the expectant Mama, to empower her with strength, confidence, and community love for her upcoming birth. Many women gathered around me, placing their hands on my belly, my shoulders, my feet, pouring their blessings over me… it was beautiful. I felt held, loved and supported.

Every day before the sun rose, we sat in prayer together. We had a ritual fire where we wrote down the limiting beliefs we carried about ourselves and burned them, releasing what no longer served us. I could go on about this experience.

Fun fact about the other pregnant Mamas and I: all three of our babies were born on the 26th day of their birth months! 🥰🙏

That experience shaped me. It taught me that how we prepare matters. That being witnessed matters. That stepping into Mamahood is spiritual work.

Now, when I support my prenatal clients, we prepare for breastfeeding with that same intention: clearing fear, building confidence, and grounding into trust before baby ever takes their first breath…

Birth is sacred. Feeding your baby is sacred. And you deserve to feel prepared for both.

This week I have prenatal Mama clients in labor as we speak 🥰🥰🥰 the support already set in place, as it’s meant to be 💜

You can book with me today-message me at 315-316-2977 or book online www.TheGoodLatchCat.com

Love,
Cat Xx

02/14/2026

Hey Mamas! Please reach out to my mentor Ania if you have an abundance of milk that you can donate to a family in need 🩷❤️💚🧡💙💜💛

02/12/2026

✨ 💜Another year around the sun💜 ✨

Let me reintroduce myself.
I’m Cat. An IBCLC in private practice. A Mother to my sweet boy, Luke. A woman whose life and work have been shaped by deep love, growth, grief, and resilience.

I nursed my son for 3.5 years- a sacred, demanding, life-altering devotion that rewired my body and my soul. It taught me that feeding a baby is never just about feeding a baby. It’s a deep, sacred bond between Mother and Child. It’s ancient, beautiful, and Holy…

When our lives shifted in 2017, our whole worlds began experiencing earthquakes daily, I’m talking magnitude 7 quakes. It was breastfeeding that kept us grounded. And I remember thinking I’ve only really heard about the nutritional benefits of breastfeeding. But the bond. This sacred bond was rarely spoken about…and it was everything to my son and I.

I became passionate about helping other Mamas when I had to go back into the workforce. Luke was 2 and I promised myself that whatever work I was going to do, will be worth my time away from him and it will be something I’m passionate about.

Cue the Universe aligning me into one of my souls purposes here on Earth.

My friend told me that WIC was hiring a breastfeeding counselor for Herkimer County. I decided to check it out….

2 interviews later and one month of PC training-I received my first caseload of Mamas. A couple hundred at least ( that was just for the first few months before it started to grow!) And it wasn’t long after when I realized ohhhh, this, this right here is where I’m called to be…

7 years later, I’m now board certified running my own private practice. I have the work life balance I’ve dreamed of and serving others which my heart has always called me to do. It took awhile to figure it out! 30+ years! Serving Mamas and babes, I couldn’t be happier 🥰 It’s funny how when we root ourselves in our self worth, the Universe meets us there and opens up doors we didn’t even know were waiting…

My reach continues to grow and now I’m serving in the infertility world-a very underserved population with very little support. I host free monthly pregnancy loss support groups Coffee and Grief which have been so healing ❤️‍🩹 as I walk my own path of secondary infertility, openly, honestly, and sharing that journey through my VLOGs Becoming Mama Again | Cat’s Journey on YouTube. Not for sympathy. For truth. For the women quietly carrying hope and heartbreak in the same breath.

The silence that we deal with every moment of every day is heavy.

But these spaces make room for us to breathe and heal. A space for grief to be spoken, witnessed and honored. No fixing. No rushing. Just community. Most importantly, we are together. Never alone.

This year, my 40th year here on Earth, I’m choosing expansion over contraction.
Presence over perfection.
Depth over ease.

I’m here for the becoming.
I’m here for the beautiful mess.
I’m here for Mothering the Mothers- including myself.

Thank you for walking this path with me.
Here’s to another year of truth, evolving and bold becoming. 💜🫶🏼