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About Willow Merchant
Example bio: Willow is a Family Nurse Practitioner, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and Certified Trauma Specialist with 27 years of nursing experience. Based in Bend, Oregon, she takes a whole-person approach to lactation care — combining evidence-based feeding guidance with nervous system support and trauma-informed care. She believes feeding challenges are rarely just about the latch, and that healing the nervous system is often the missing piece. Through Emerging Hearts Collective, she also offers women's circles, coaching, and retreats.
Willow Merchant works with breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and co-nursing families — including transgender and non-binary parents. Every family deserves evidence-based care without judgement.
Credentials & training
How I work
No shame, no pressure, no one-size-fits-all scripts. Every consult starts with your story and ends with a written plan you can actually follow — with a follow-up check-in built in. Example copy — replace with your own approach.
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