Naturopathic doctor. Mother. Obsessive of all things motherhood.
Nice to Meet You
Enneagram 7, INTP, Libra sun. Chaotic combination, I know.
I talk fast, I talk loud, and if you ask me anything about my work, congratulations: you have just signed up for a TED talk you did not know you wanted. I promise it will be worth it.
I have been deep in this motherhood world for over ten years and I am genuinely, enthusiastically, loudly obsessed with it.
Once Upon a Time
All through childhood and into college, I had one plan: animals. Then, sophomore year, I discovered naturopathic medicine and that was it. I changed everything overnight. Something about the philosophy just clicked in a way nothing else ever had.
I enrolled, dove in headfirst, and somewhere in the middle of medical school, I also became a mom. Highly effective life strategy? Not exactly. Zero regrets? Also yes. By the time I graduated, I was already six months pregnant with my second. So I skipped the traditional launch-a-business arc and went straight from med school into the deep end of motherhood, and that is where everything really began.
Med school, motherhood, Milk Medicine. Not the plan. Exactly the plan.
The Hard Part
I had loved pregnancy. I had a long, hard home birth and came out the other side feeling capable and ready. What I was not ready for was what came next.
Breastfeeding did not come easily. I was not getting the support I needed to figure out what was going on with my son’s tongue and lip tie. I was anxious, hypervigilant, unsure of myself in a way I had never experienced before, white-knuckling it through recurrent mastitis and quietly unraveling on the inside.
The thing is, I hid it well, not intentionally. I was just in shock the whole time.
It was my dark night of the soul. My phoenix-rising-from-the-ashes moment. And when I came out the other side, I understood modern motherhood, with its missing village and its 2 a.m. Google spirals, in a way I never could have from a textbook.
I wanted to make sure no other mom was frantically Googling at 2 a.m., alone, trying to piece together what I had to figure out the hard way.
The Pivot
So many mothers spend months preparing for birth and then walk into postpartum completely blindsided. That was me. And I had a medical degree.
What I kept thinking about was how different that experience could have been if I had known what was coming. Not just the hard parts, but how to troubleshoot them. Who to call. What questions to ask. How to feel calm and competent even when things got messy, instead of frantic and alone at 2 a.m., refreshing Google for answers that never quite fit.
That is the gap I became obsessed with closing. That is why I started Milk Medicine.
Who This Is For
Most of the moms I work with are first-timers, curious, nature-minded women who have already been on a journey toward healthier, more intentional living. They know how to read a label. They believe in working with their physiology, not against it.
But now they are pregnant, or they have just had a baby, and they are realizing: nobody told them how this part works.
They want to understand physiological birth, breastfeeding, and how to raise a healthy family in a world that makes that genuinely hard. Some had a first experience that left them blindsided, and they are determined to walk into this time with more information, more confidence, and a whole lot less 2 a.m. Googling.
That is exactly who I built this for.
How Milk Medicine Came to Be
I am not going to pretend this was a rocket-ship story. It was not.
Milk Medicine grew in the margins of motherhood, between babies, through a pandemic, around homeschooling, and always with my kids as the first priority. There were long stretches where I went completely quiet. There were seasons where life just took over, and I let it.
What I came back to, every time, was this: sharing what I knew was genuinely helping people.
My first product was a mastitis guide, and seeing it land in the hands of a struggling mom and actually help her was the spark. From there came a children's cold and flu care class, a six-week pregnancy course I built slide by slide while pregnant with my daughter Sunday, then recorded in full six weeks postpartum.
Then came the podcast, Healthy as a Mother, co-hosted with Leah, which started as a creative experiment and has become one of the most meaningful parts of my work.
It has been a long, slow, beautiful build. And I am just getting started.
My Really Official Bio
Dr. Morgan McDermott earned her biology degree with a concentration in anatomy and physiology from Colorado State University, and her naturopathic medical doctorate from Bastyr University California in San Diego.
After becoming a mother in the middle of medical school and experiencing firsthand how unprepared even a trained clinician can be for the realities of postpartum, she redirected her focus entirely toward perinatal women’s health: pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, postpartum, and the early years of motherhood.
She is the creator of the six-week pregnancy course that runs four times a year, and the co-host of Healthy as a Mother, a podcast that has grown into one of the most trusted voices in the natural motherhood space.
She lives on a 12-acre family compound outside Boise, Idaho, with her husband, their children, and more animals than she can count at any given moment.
Super Fun Facts
I was an exchange student in Sweden and came back speaking the language so convincingly that native Swedes refused to believe I was American. The accent was that good.
I used to be our property's beekeeper, until I became anaphylactically allergic to bees at 33 weeks pregnant, ended up in the ER, and traded in my hive suit for an EpiPen. Highlights of motherhood.
I am 6'0" tall, wear a size 11.5 shoe, and can make an extremely convincing dolphin sound. These facts feel related somehow.
My most consumed food, by a landslide, is yogurt. I am not embarrassed about this.
The Quiz
Because credentials are great, but this is what really matters.
Live music in the park with the kids, some snacks, good friends, and watching everyone run around and dance in the warm summer air.
Jason Momoa. Always Jason Momoa.
RE/LIGHTS, Painter Island Sisters yogurt, and my morning porch ritual in the sunshine.
A professional singer, except I cannot actually sing. So really: just possessing an effortless rock and roll voice I can pull out anywhere. Runner up: dolphin trainer. Genuinely.
San Luis Obispo in late spring, or the redwood forest. I cannot choose.
RE/LIGHT Orange.
My husband. Truly, completely, embarrassingly obsessed with him. Product answer: my Kindle.
Countryside, without question. 12-acre family compound, ten adults, twelve children, goats, chickens, a garden, an orchard. There is nowhere I would rather be.
We do not own a TV and I know almost nothing about pop culture, but I finally caved on Bridgerton in January and binged the whole thing. It was great. I regret nothing.
Yogurt. Already said it. Saying it again.
