Our vision…
To make personalized, evidence-based infant feeding support more accessible to everyone. Whether you are breastfeeding, chest-feeding, exclusively pumping and bottle feeding or weaning, we believe all lactating people should be able to get support with meeting their feeding goals. Wildflower Lactation is evidence-based support, including biologically normal parenting practices that are backed by robust scientific studies.
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Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant
Registered/Licensed Lactation Consultant
Certified Postpartum Doula
Co-Sleeping/Gentle Sleep Consultant
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I’m passionate about supporting families through their lactation and postpartum journey. I have over 10 years of lactation consulting experience working with all types of families from all different backgrounds. I support evidence-based parenting practices and enjoy supporting families in finding the best approach that works for them. I’m also a gentle sleep practitioner and can also help families with gentle sleep strategies including co-sleeping support.
I completed my college courses at University of California, Santa Barbara, and was trained through Healthy Children/Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine as a Certified Lactation Counselor in 2011.
From 2011-2016 I worked as a CLC in the community helping families and teaching breastfeeding classes.
In 2016 I became an Accredited La Leche League Leader and over the next 4 years completed 1000 clinical hours working with diverse families in Berkeley, CA and Hood River, Oregon.
In 2016 I also became a Certified Postpartum Doula through Cornerstone and began helping families in their homes heal from birth and learn to care for their new babies.
In 2019 I became an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant and began working in private practice.
In 2020 I opened a non-profit in Hood River, Oregon called Columbia Gorge Postpartum Support with a mission to improve access to postpartum and lactation support in rural areas. With our grants, over the course of 2 years we helped 80 families receive free postpartum doula care and lactation support.
In 2022 I moved to Portland and opened Wildflower Lactation.
I look forward to supporting your family!
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Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTS) evaluation, referral for treatment and aftercare.
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Beth is a mom of two teen boys who both unschool. She practices gentle parenting and is a passionate advocate for trans and autistic youth. She has 2 cats and a dog, enjoys playing music, singing, writing songs, painting, and practices Vedic meditation. She’s also a singer/songwriter with published albums under “Beth Waters”.
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Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant
Registered/Licensed Lactation Consultant
Registered Midwife (UK)/Bachelor of Science Midwifery (Honours Degree)
Tongue Tie Specialist
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I have been working in birth, supporting mothers, birthing people, and babies for over 11 years. To me this is so much more than a job, it is a calling, and I have a deep passion and respect for birth and parenting in all its forms. I want nothing more than to support you and provide you with the strategies that you need to reach your infant feeding goals, whatever they may be.
I started my career in Infant Feeding in 2013 as a Breastfeeding Counselor in the UK’s NHS hospitals, where I developed a passion for assisting mothers, birthing people, and babies. I provided face to face support and education to new parents in postpartum wards.
In 2014, I trained as a Registered Midwife, delivering babies at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, and supporting breastfeeding/chestfeeding in the early days and weeks postpartum.
In 2019, I became a Tongue Tie Practitioner Midwife, running Infant feeding clinics across two NHS hospitals and diagnosing and treating 400-500 infants annually for tethered oral tissue. This experience exposed me to increasingly complex feeding issues, motivating me to enhance my breastfeeding support skills.
In 2021, I became the Infant Feeding Specialist Midwife, training patients and healthcare staff in breastfeeding support and contributing to my trust's UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation. I implemented projects such as skin-to-skin contact during scheduled C-sections to promote breastfeeding, and established a specialist feeding support team to reduce newborn hospital readmissions.
I completed the ‘Breastfeeding London’ Lactation consultant training course, achieving my IBCLC certification in 2022 and began a private practice in England, alongside my NHS work.
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Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTS) evaluation, referral for treatment and aftercare
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After returning to the Pacific Northwest in 2023 with my husband and three children, I am thrilled to join the Wildflower team. When kindred spirits link up with aligned philosophies, and a shared drive to support families, great things can happen! I am so excited to bring my global experience back to my home state of Oregon for face-to-face feeding support, just as I did over 11 years ago.
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Office Manager
Billing Manager
Certified Postpartum Doula
Placenta Encapsulation
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Megan is a certified postpartum doula and is experienced in postpartum doula care, office management, scheduling, medical and medical billing. She is currently offering placenta encapsulation as a service and is working towards her IBCLC certification to join the lactation consultants here at Wildflower Lactation.
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Peaceful parenting/NVC, lactation, postpartum care/healing, herbal and natural remedies.
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In her spare time, Megan enjoys hiking and camping with her family. She has two children and loves living her in the PNW.