Milk Stories

Milk Stories Milk Stories offers lactation support, infant feeding therapy, infant massage & bodywork.

We provide holistic, specialized care for babies and moms focused on the unexpected during the journeys of breastfeeding and motherhood.

08/14/2026

*Re-post* ✨ Sometimes it’s hard to show exactly what a village looks like. But this… this is it. ✨

Craft & Chat gives us -to-be a place to land and just- be. It’s space to create, laugh, (or cry) and connect. 🤍

As an OT, I believe in the power of doing — when our hands are busy, we can also start to relax. That’s where community happens. 🎨✂️

In fat, occupational therapy actually began this way: arts and crafts helping soldiers reconnect with life and community. And this for me is moms and babies finding their people through the same simple act of doing together. 🤱🌿

This is how a village is built. 🧡

Come prenatal or postpartum to join Milk Stories and Prenatal Yoga | Austin Yoga Lounge every month for a new craft!

Babies always welcome.

Sign up through the link in bio!

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✨ Two ways to connect with other parents this month! Looking for community, support, and something fun to do with your l...
08/07/2026

✨ Two ways to connect with other parents this month!

Looking for community, support, and something fun to do with your little one? We’d love to see you at one (or both!) of our August gatherings.

🎨 Craft & Chat

Join us for a relaxed prenatal and postpartum group led by Maya Misikoff, IBCLC, OT, and RN. We’ll talk about infant feeding, maternal health, and the real experience of early parenthood while painting mini terracotta pots. It’s a simple, colorful project you can actually finish, and babies are always welcome.

📅 Tuesday, August 18
🕛 12:00 to 1:30 PM
📍 Austin Yoga Lounge

🧸 Tiny Explorers

Designed for pre-crawling babies and their caregivers, Tiny Explorers is a playful class where you’ll learn simple ways to support your baby’s development through everyday play, ask questions, and connect with other families.

📅 Thursdays at 10:00 AM (August 13, 20, and 27)
📍 Synergy Dance Studio

✨ Heads up! Tiny Explorers moves to Fridays at 10:00 AM beginning in September at the same location.

Come learn, create, ask questions, and meet other families in the same stage of life. We’d love to have you! 💛

🔗 Register through the link in our bio.

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08/04/2026

Looking for baby classes, playgroups, and activities in Austin? 👶✨

As an occupational therapist specializing in babies under the age of one, I’m constantly searching for local classes and activities to recommend to families who just want to get out of the house!

After years of digging through outdated lists, searching dozens of websites, and constantly thinking, “What was that great class one of my families told me about for crawling-age babies?” I finally decided to take matters into my own hands.

So I created The Austin Babies Directory just for you. 💛

This free resource makes it easy to discover baby-friendly activities all over the greater Austin area. You can:
🗺️ Filter by location, age, and activity type
💰 See pricing, days, and times
📝 Read descriptions and reviews
📍Browse everything on an interactive map

Whether you’re looking for music classes, story time, swimming, sensory play, parent support groups, movement classes, or just somewhere new to explore with your baby, I hope this becomes your go-to resource.

🔗 Explore the directory here:
https://www.milkstoriesatx.com/directory

I’d love your help making it even better! If you’ve attended a class or activity that’s listed, please leave a review so other families can benefit from your experience. 💛

If you’re a business or instructor offering a class or activity for babies and young children in the greater Austin area and you’re not listed yet, I’d love to include you! Email me at [email protected].

Together, we can build the best local resource for Austin families. 🤍

✨ Meet your newest TummyTime! Method Certified Therapist! ✨Milk Stories is excited to add another evidence-based tool to...
08/02/2026

✨ Meet your newest TummyTime! Method Certified Therapist! ✨

Milk Stories is excited to add another evidence-based tool to better support babies and their families.

Jessica recently completed certification in the TummyTime! Method, developed by pediatric occupational therapist Michelle Emmanuel. This approach goes beyond simply placing babies on their tummy. It teaches parents how to make tummy time enjoyable, developmentally appropriate, and effective from the very beginning.

The TummyTime! Method uses playful, individualized strategies to build strength, promote motor development, support feeding and sensory regulation, help prevent positional head flattening, and foster confidence for both babies and caregivers.

Every baby deserves the best start, and every parent deserves practical, compassionate guidance along the way. 💛

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07/17/2026

July’s Craft & Chat at Prenatal Yoga | Austin Yoga Lounge features a mini terracotta pot painting party hosted by our very own Maya Misikoff

Join Milk Stories for Craft & Chat, a community prenatal and postpartum group. Led by Maya Misikoff, an occupational therapist, IBCLC and registered nurse specializing in infant and maternal health, this group offers a safe, supportive and creative space to discuss infant feeding, maternal health, and the journey of motherhood.

July craft: Painting ceramic flower pots

Craft & Chat at AYL is offered through Austin Yoga Lounge, and advanced registration is required.To help us accommodate our group size and space limitations at this location, Craft & Chat at Austin Yoga Lounge is offered as a donation-based gathering. We welcome contributions between $5 and $50 to help support the space and supplies.

Babies always welcome!

Join us:
Tuesday, July 21, 2026
1:30 PM 3:00 PM
Austin Yoga Lounge
1201 West 6th Street Suite E 2nd Floor Austin, TX, 78703

07/12/2026

The perfect therapy bag finally exists. 🎒

For years I carried a Bogg Bag to my home visits — and I loved it. The size, the versatility, the fact that I could wipe it clean. But if I’m being honest? More often than not it turned into a black hole. I’d spend half an appointment digging around trying to find the one thing I needed.

I’d looked at other bags before, but every time I’d get overwhelmed trying to remember where everything went. So I kept my black hole.

Then the ad for this Tobiq Traveler 30L kept showing up on my Instagram. I tried to ignore it… it kept coming back… and finally I caved. I am SO glad I did.

Here’s why it’s the one:
✨ Separately covered, color-coded compartments — I added custom pull tabs so I can open just the category I need and grab the item (repacking is just as fast)
✨ Every compartment has elastic mesh pockets + a zipper pocket for the little stuff
✨ Dedicated padded laptop pocket
✨ Wear it as a backpack OR a shoulder bag
✨ A water bottle holder that actually fits my giant 36oz Owala

As an infant feeding OT and lactation consultant doing home visits, I move a tangle of supplies from door to door — and for the first time, none of it disappears into the void. I need a grab bag that’s genuinely easy to use, and this is it. The only thing that doesn’t fit is my baby doll… but don’t worry, I figured out a way to carry her too!

Now when I need something, I just look for the tab, open the compartment, and pull. That’s it.

Just so you know: I bought this bag with my own money. I’m not paid or sponsored to say any of this — I just genuinely love it. Bag by TOBIQ 🔆 Travel Bags

👇 What do you use as a therapy bag? Drop it in the comments!

✨ July at Milk Stories ✨We’ve got two wonderful opportunities to connect with other families, learn, play, and build com...
07/07/2026

✨ July at Milk Stories ✨

We’ve got two wonderful opportunities to connect with other families, learn, play, and build community this month. We’d love to see you there! 💛

🎨 Craft & Chat
Led by Maya Misikoff, OTR/L, RN, IBCLC, this relaxed prenatal and postpartum gathering is a space to talk about infant feeding, maternal health, and the beautifully messy journey of early parenthood. Babies are always welcome! 👶

This month’s craft? 🪴 Hand-painted terracotta pots—a fun, colorful project that’s easy to finish while staying cool indoors from the Texas heat. ☀️

📅 Tuesday, July 21
🕜 1:30–3:00 PM
📍 Austin Yoga Lounge

🌿 Tiny Explorers
We’re celebrating ONE YEAR of Tiny Explorers! 🎉 Created in collaboration with Dr. Amreen Ali, PT, DPT, owner of Wonder Pediatric Physical Therapy & Wellness, this play class is designed for pre-crawling babies and their caregivers.

Come learn simple, evidence-based ways to support your baby’s development through play, ask all your questions, and connect with other families in the same season of life. 💚

📅 Thursdays at 10:00 AM
✨ July 9, 16 & 30
🚫 No class July 23
📍 Synergy Dance Studio
🎟️ $20/class or a 6-Class Play Pass for $90

Link in bio to register—we can’t wait to meet you! 🤍

✨ Meet the newest provider at Milk Stories: Maya Misikoff! ✨Maya is truly a rare find, bringing together three incredibl...
06/29/2026

✨ Meet the newest provider at Milk Stories: Maya Misikoff! ✨

Maya is truly a rare find, bringing together three incredible credentials as an Occupational Therapist, Registered Nurse, and newly certified IBCLC. 🎉 If you’re already part of the Milk Stories community or a local provider, you may have had the pleasure of meeting her—but it’s officially time for a proper introduction!

As an infant and maternal health provider, and mom, Maya understands firsthand how both challenging and deeply rewarding the early postpartum journey can be. 🤍

She is passionate about the connection between infant feeding, early development, and parental mental health. With clinical experience in hospital-based infant feeding, postpartum care, and behavioral health, Maya provides evidence-informed, relationship-centered care that emphasizes attachment, nervous system regulation, and whole-family wellbeing.

Her goal is simple: to help families feel calm, confident, and genuinely supported as they navigate feeding and reach their developmental goals. 🌿

Welcome to the Milk Stories family, Maya! 💛

Feeding a baby can be complicated, messy, and joyful, often all at once. We work exclusively with babies in their first ...
06/22/2026

Feeding a baby can be complicated, messy, and joyful, often all at once. We work exclusively with babies in their first year, supporting you and your baby through every chapter: early breast and bottle feeding, the transition to solids, and the developmental milestones in between and beyond.

As Austin’s only dual-credentialed IBCLC and OT providers, Milk Stories offers an integrated approach to infant feeding and lactation, which combines specialized occupational therapy and lactation consultation to address not only feeding difficulties, but also the developmental, sensory, and emotional needs of both you and your baby.

Here’s what we help with 👇

🤱🏻Lactation Support
✔ Painful or Shallow Latch
✔ Low Milk Supply or Transfer Concerns
✔ Comfort and Positioning
✔ Fl**ge Fitting and Pumping
✔ Combo Feeding (Breastmilk and Formula)
✔ Bottle Introduction and Return to Work
✔ Prenatal Breastfeeding Preparation

👅Infant Feeding Therapy
✔ Breast or Bottle Refusal
✔ Latch Difficulties and Tongue/Lip Tie
✔ Reflux, Colic, and Feeding Discomfort
✔ Oral Motor Difficulties
✔ Slow or Stalled Weight Gain
✔ Introducing or Progressing Solids

🧸Occupational Therapy
✔ Body Tension and Asymmetries
✔ Struggles With Tummy Time
✔ Head Turn Preference and Torticollis
✔ Delayed Rolling or Crawling
✔ Difficulty With Transitions
✔ Head Shape and Flat Spots

We’ve been where you are and we’ve got you. 🤍

📩 Request an assessment — link in bio.
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