When Eliza Larson was a new mom, it was summertime in Tucson, Arizona. Spending a lot of time outdoors wasn’t an option in the sweltering heat, so she would take her newborn son to Target. “That was the place I could go to have air-conditioning and just get out of the house,” she remembers. “I have vivid memories of just walking the aisles.”
Little did she know that years later when she walked the aisles of Target, she’d see her own products staring back at her.
It was after her second son was born that Larson, now based in Ballard, started thinking about how she could improve her breastfeeding experience. “I always struggled with milk supply. It never came naturally to me,” she says. “I had no idea that there were different foods and things that could support milk supply; it was just something I didn’t know about. And then once I found out there were different ingredients you could use, and foods that can really support milk supply, like brewer’s yeast, I got really curious about what I could make.”
(While galactagogues—that’s the fancy name for a substance that promotes the flow of milk—have not been well studied by the scientific community, more than half of breastfeeding mothers in the United States use them.)…