About Milkology

I'm Stacey, and I'm glad you're here.

How Milkology Started

Back in 2016, I started Milk Magic Lactation Cookie Mixes from my kitchen in Charleston, SC.

The cookies were good. Not “good for something with flax in it,” but actually good. They were delicious, effective, and made with ingredients known as galactagogues, which is a slightly clunky word for foods traditionally used to support milk supply. Moms loved them. The reviews were glowing. The whole thing was deeply encouraging.

But there was a problem…

Even when moms felt like their milk supply was improving, many of them were still struggling.

They were anxious. Overwhelmed. Exhausted in the particular way new mothers are exhausted, which is to say tired in body, mind, and soul, sometimes all before 9 a.m. They were worried about latch issues, pumping schedules, bottle refusal, cluster feeding, and whether their baby was getting enough milk. They wanted help, but more than that, they wanted clarity.

They didn’t need more noise. They needed someone to explain what was actually going on.

In other words, they needed education.

That realization changed everything for me.

The Turning Point

I realized these moms needed someone to say, in plain English, here’s what your body is doing, here’s what your baby is doing, and here is what you can try before you throw your pump across the room.

So I went back to school and became a Certified Lactation Educator (CLE).

And here's the secret weapon: I also have a Master's degree in Teaching (MAT). Which means I have a very strong preference for making complicated things understandable. I like clear explanations. I like useful steps. I like info that a tired person can absorb while holding a baby and reheating the same cup of tea for the third time.

In 2017, I launched Milkology: on-demand lactation classes designed to give moms the education they deserve.

What Milkology Is Now

Today, Milkology serves thousands of moms around the world.

We create lactation education that is rooted in research, easy to access, practical enough to use in real life, and empowering in the way good information tends to be.

Because when you understand what’s happening, things feel less impossible.

And I want that for every mom, no matter what feeding looks like in her house.

That’s what Milkology is for.

Welcome.

I’m really glad you ended up here.

— Stacey

About Stacey

I Was Always Going to End Up Teaching Something…

I loved playing teacher when I was little.

At 7 years old, I was lining up Barbies and neighborhood kids and confidently conducting lessons no one had asked for. I was fully in my element. Some children dream of stardom. I was apparently aiming for a whiteboard and a captive audience.

So in some ways, this part makes sense.

I still teach. Only now the subject is breastfeeding, and the students are grown women who are trying to make sense of a deeply important thing while profoundly sleep deprived.

It feels like better use of my energy than lecturing dolls.

My Story

I’m a mom of three school-aged kids: Samantha, born in 2011, and twins Mallory and Ryan, born in 2015.

I combo-fed and pumped for all three of them until about two and a half years old. That sounds tidy when written in one sentence. It was not tidy while I was living it.

Clogged ducts that made me want to cry. Tandem nursing twins to sleep (yes, at the same time). Pumping in my car during 10-minute work breaks because that's what it took.

There were sweet moments, of course. There were also hard ones. Often in the same hour.

That is part of why I care so much about this work.

Why I Created Milkology

I created Milkology because breastfeeding is so often sold to women in one of two ways: either as effortless and glowing, or as a grim endurance sport.

The truth is less black and white.

Most people, unsurprisingly, live somewhere in between.

It can be beautiful. It can be hard. It can be awkward, emotional, inconvenient, comforting, painful, funny, and deeply ordinary all at once. Sometimes you feel like a powerful earth goddess. Sometimes you’re crying while holding a nipple shield and trying not to wake the baby.

Both experiences count.

I wanted moms to have a place I wish every woman had from the start: evidence-based guidance, practical tools, and someone willing to explain things clearly without making them feel foolish.

So that’s what I built.

Milkology exists to make breastfeeding feel less lonely, less mysterious, and a lot more manageable. I want you to have solid information, realistic expectations, and the kind of support that helps you trust yourself a little more.

Let’s Do This Together

I'm so glad you're here. 💖

10 THINGS YOU MIGHT FIND ME DOING WHEN I’M NOT CREATING CONTENT FOR MILKOLOGY:

1. 🧘‍♀️ Yoga. I try to practice every day, or at least often enough to continue referring to myself as someone who practices every day. I do it upstairs in a corner of the attic I’ve claimed for this purpose, which feels both grounding and slightly monastic.

2. 🍫 Sneaking chocolate. Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Dark Chocolate Bar preferred. I’m completely addicted and need a daily fix.

3. 🤸 Watching my kids at their activities. Sam does ice skating. Ryan is in flag football and running. Mal is a cheerleader. Between practices, games, and the general logistics of getting everyone where they need to be with the correct shoes, we are a busy family in the least theoretical sense.

4. ⛱️ Beachin’ it. I live in Charleston, SC and loooove going to the beach. My favorite is Folly but you can usually catch me at Isle of Palms since it’s closest to home.

5. 🌱 Tending to my plants. I have more than 50, both indoors and out, which suggests either genuine nurturing instincts or a complete inability to stop buying plants. At this point, naming them does seem like the natural next step.

6. 🎧 Listening to podcasts. My current obsession is Radiolab.

7. 🚲 Bike rides around Charleston. Few things make me feel more peaceful or more free than riding around Isle of Palms, ideally with nowhere urgent to be and no one asking me where their water bottle is.

8. 💗 Family time on the back deck. Nothing fancy. Just all of us together, outside, which is often the nicest kind of evening.

9. 🛍️ Surfin’ the web. More specifically, looking at Anthropologie sales and trying to behave like a person with perspective when they start offering an additional 40% off.

10. 🍪 Baking up healthy desserts. My fav go-to recipes are black bean brownies and chickpea cookie dough.