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🍼Your milk, their miracle. Together, we're improving access to the original superfood - Human Milk!

10/09/2026

We know what the recommendations are. The harder question is: have we built a system that actually makes them achievable?

Fewer than 1 in 3 U.S. babies are exclusively breastfed through the recommended first six months. Families face gaps in lactation care, inadequate leave and workplace support, fragmented education, and limited awareness of donor milk pathways.

The consequences extend far beyond individual feeding journeys. Globally, suboptimal breastfeeding contributes to substantial preventable illness and loss of life. Human milk access is not simply a parenting preference—it is a public-health issue.

And that’s exactly why we’re headed to Toronto for the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Annual International Meeting. ✈️🇨🇦

I’ll be sharing our work on how digital infrastructure can help bridge the gaps between healthcare visits—providing families with timely education, ongoing support, and clearer pathways to donor human milk when a parent’s own milk isn’t enough.

We can’t simply keep telling families to breastfeed longer.

We have to build the infrastructure that makes doing so possible. 🩵

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10/08/2026

That isn’t simply a matter of mothers not trying hard enough.

Families face very real barriers: limited access to skilled lactation care, short or nonexistent paid leave, workplace challenges, conflicting information, and long stretches between appointments when questions and problems don’t conveniently wait.

That gap between visits is exactly where The Human Milky Way app is designed to help.

Our beta provides gentle, evidence-based education and support in small, timely pieces throughout pregnancy and postpartum—helping families understand what’s happening, what to expect next, and when additional support may be needed.

It’s also completely free and available as a resource for anyone who is expecting or navigating infant feeding.

It isn’t meant to replace an IBCLC or your healthcare team. It’s meant to help make sure you’re not left completely on your own in between them.

Better information. Earlier support. More confidence. Better chances of reaching your feeding goals. 🩵

✨ Try the free beta through the link in our bio.

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10/07/2026

Yesterday was my anniversary with my King Cole. ❤️ We’ve been together for 16 years, and it has been an amazing journey.

The greatest parts of my life are the pieces that have been joined with him. I never imagined that I could live a life as happy, full, and intentional as the one I get to live with Frank Cole. The things we do together, the life we’ve built, and the way he takes care of me are better than anything I could have even dreamed of.

He is more of a man, husband, and provider than even my best expectations. He is strong and hardworking, while also being compassionate, caring, and deeply devoted to our family. He loves me and our children profoundly and puts us first before everything else in his life.

There really aren’t words to describe how amazing and strong Frank Cole is, or what a positive role model he is for our children. I am so grateful for him, for our marriage, for our children, and for the life that we get to live together.

Sixteen years together, and I am still so grateful that I get to do life with you. ❤️

10/04/2026

Seven months of making milk is a lot of work—and sometimes seeing the numbers helps put that work into perspective. ✨

Seven months can represent:

4,600 oz of milk
36 gallons of nourishment
1,065 hours spent nursing or pumping
$3,680 in estimated formula savings
$16,100 in estimated milk value

And even those numbers don’t fully capture the middle-of-the-night feeds, the pumping, the planning, the washing, the schedule juggling, or the countless little choices that go into sustaining a human milk journey.

And at seven months, your milk still matters. It continues to provide immune support, bioactive components, microbiome support, and nutrition as your baby grows.

If you’ve made it this far, take a second to recognize what you’ve done.

Seven months is worth celebrating. 🩵🌙

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09/30/2026

The Human Milky Way app is officially live in beta. ✨

This first version is a simple step toward putting a gentle, evidence-based lactation coach in your pocket.👩‍⚕️

It’s designed to offer encouragement, guidance, and practical support throughout pregnancy and postpartum to help families better understand their milk journey and work toward recommended breastfeeding goals.💪

You can explore weekly guidance, track your journey, and access support and donor milk pathways when you need them.

And because this is a beta, your feedback matters.
Anything you share about what feels helpful, confusing, missing, or worth improving will directly help shape the next version of the app.

If you’re expecting, breastfeeding, or pumping, I’d love for you to try it and tell me what you think.
Start here: app.thehumanmilkyway.com 🩵

09/29/2026

That’s because early nutrition does far more than satisfy hunger.

Human milk helps shape the infant microbiome, supports immune development, and provides hormones, fats, oligosaccharides, and other bioactive compounds that interact with developing metabolic systems.

Researchers are increasingly recognizing that the first months and years of life are a period of metabolic programming—when nutrition can influence how the body handles energy, regulates appetite, responds to insulin, and stores fat later on.

Infant nutrition is not just about feeding a baby today.
It is helping build the biology they will carry forward. 🩵

09/28/2026

Lately I’ve been feeling the weight of two full-time jobs at once: startup life and mom life.

And I know I’m far from the only woman who feels that way.

In the U.S., there is still no federal law guaranteeing paid family and medical leave for private-sector workers, which means many mothers are expected to recover, care for a newborn, establish breastfeeding—and then somehow keep everything else moving too.

That’s exactly why this work matters so much to me.

Behind the scenes, we’re making progress every day toward solutions that can make lactation easier, more sustainable, and better supported—so more families have a real chance to meet their breastfeeding goals.

The work mothers do is often invisible.

But it matters.

And so does building a world that asks them to carry a little less of it alone. 🩵

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09/21/2026

Six months of making milk is a **big deal**—and sometimes it takes seeing the numbers to realize just how much you’ve actually done. 🩵

In roughly six months of lactation, you may have produced **1,800–3,600 ounces of milk**, spent around **900 hours nursing or pumping**, and avoided thousands of dollars in formula costs.

And those numbers still don’t capture the whole story.

They don’t measure the middle-of-the-night feeds, the pump parts washed, the schedules rearranged, the comfort given, or the immune and bioactive components your body provided day after day.

So if you’ve reached six months—whether nursing, pumping, or doing a little of both—**take a minute to celebrate yourself.**

You didn’t “just” make milk.

You invested hundreds of hours into nourishing another human being.

That deserves recognition. ✨

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09/20/2026

How much money did it take to make breastfeeding feel like the unusual way to feed a human baby?

Formula companies spend billions marketing breast-milk substitutes—and somehow, somewhere along the way, the biologically normal way of feeding our young became the thing that needs explaining, defending, and “normalizing.”

Most U.S. babies start out receiving human milk.

But by six months, fewer than 1 in 3 are still exclusively breastfed.

That matters.

Human milk isn’t simply interchangeable calories. Early nutrition helps shape immune function, metabolism, growth, and development, and research continues to associate breastfeeding with important health benefits—including lower risks of some infections, obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life.

This isn’t about blaming families who use formula.

It’s about asking why we’ve created an environment where breastfeeding is recommended—but formula is often easier to access, easier to accommodate, and far more aggressively marketed.

Breastfeeding was never supposed to be niche.

We made it that way.

And we can build a culture that makes human milk accessible, supported, and normal again. 🩵

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