Taryn Mickus, IBCLC

Board Certified Lactation Consultant

Taryn Mickus, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and Certified Lactation Educator, provides breastfeeding support to mothers living in the city of Alameda. She believes in giving mothers up-to-date information and caring support so that they can make informed decisions for their infants and themselves.

Taryn has been a practicing lactation consultant since 2011. She is a graduate of UC San Diego's  Lactation Consultant program, the most rigorous of its kind in the US. Taryn worked as a lactation consultant at CPMC for a number of years, but now exclusively sees mother through her private practice. She belongs to the International Lactation Consultant Association, US Lactation Consultant Association and Bay Area Lactation Associates. 

Taryn is the mom of two breastfed kids.  She has personal experience with over-supply, working and pumping, plugged ducts, mastitis, thrush, breastfeeding during pregnancy and tandem nursing.

immediately after your consultation, we really turned a corner and for the first time, breastfeeding has not been an uncomfortable hassle. I've actually been able to enjoy the bonding time with the baby."  ​-Olya Singer, Alameda

LGBTQ+ families welcome