Dr. Michelle Haggerty

DO, MPH, ABOIM, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, PMH-C, RYT-200

Founder & CEO

Board Certified Integrative Family Physician, Breastfeeding & Lactation Medicine Specialist, and Perinatal Mental Health Specialist

Preferred pronouns: she/her/hers

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Dr. Haggerty has spent her life using her personal and career experiences to support mothers/birthing people going through their matrescence.  She graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nutrition where her capstone project was on breastfeeding and HIV/AIDs in Uganda.  She went on to obtain a Masters in Public Health from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on Nutrition and Global Health.  She spent her internship in Peru working in a pediatric and obstetric clinic doing health campaigns in the surrounding villages. 

It was during her public health training where she realized she wanted to pursue becoming a physician.  She got her degree in Osteopathic Medicine from Midwestern University in Chicago, IL followed by a family medicine residency in St. Paul, MN at United Family Medicine/Allina Health.  Her medical training included working in a pediatric HIV clinic in Zambia and a family medicine clinic in Belize.  Following residency she started working at a Federally Qualified Health Center, NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center, in North Minneapolis, MN. 

She is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director for the Center for 4th Trimester Care (C4TC), a national nonprofit whose mission is to revolutionize 4th trimester care so that all people have access to high quality 4th trimester care through education, business development, advocacy and community building.  She is a founding board member for the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine, served on the Medical and Health Sciences Advisory Committee for the Minnesota Milk Bank for Babies, and is a member of the Minnesota Breastfeeding Coalition, and Pregnancy and Postpartum Support Minnesota.  She has been recognized as one of the Rising Top Star Doctors by Msp/St. Paul Magazine (2021, 2022, 2023, & 2024), and Top Doctors (2021, 2022 & 2023), and Top Doctors for Women (2023, 2024, & 2025) by Minnesota Monthly Magazine.  She was also awarded one of the 2023 Women in Business by Twin Cities Business Journal.

In addition to changing the paradigm around postpartum, newborn, lactation and perinatal mental health care, she is passionate about her family, travel, dark chocolate, red wine, warm spicy chai, outdoor adventures, deep conversations with good friends, and laying in a hammock with a good book overlooking a lake.

Her own matrescense has been a full on rollercoaster.  She is a mom to two angel babies (from miscarriages) and three sons (unless they tell her otherwise) earthside.  Her own 4th trimester/postpartum experiences were wonderful and challenging and messy and beautiful and cozy and painful and emotional and blissful and lonely and supportive (there are not enough words to truly describe this time/transition).  She is so excited to be able to offer these services and would be honored to be a part of your journey into motherhood/parenthood. 

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