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Let me tell you something that nobody puts in your hospital welcome packet or hospital sponsored birth class.
Hospital policies are not laws.
They are not medical requirements. They are not diagnose...
You're three days postpartum. You haven't slept more than 90 consecutive minutes. Your body is doing approximately 47 things at once that no one warned you about PLUS healing. And your partner is stan...
One year ago I got on a plane to Tanzania and I genuinely did not know what I was walking into.
I went to challenge myself. To challenge my beliefs about birth. To learn something I couldn't learn wi...
Let me tell you about my mom.
She is, genuinely, a superhuman. A kindergarten teacher (which alone should qualify her for sainthood, hazard pay, and a permanent vacation) and also the kind of mom who...
Let me set the scene.
It's 11pm. You've been timing contractions for two hours. They're every 7-12 minutes. They hurt. You text your partner, you call your doula, you start dragging your hospital bag...
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February has flown by! As many of you know, I was in Mexico City and Oaxaca for 11 days on an Advanced Birthwork Training.Â
This experience was more than I ever expected, and th...
Something I think about more often than not is how hard breastfeeding is.Â
As a society, we both glorify and shame breastfeeding mothers.Â
What do you mean you breastfeed in public?!Â
Ugh, you're formu...
This week was an odd one. I supported 3 births while also supporting 1 death.
As I moved between labors and hospice FaceTimes over the past few days, I couldn’t help but think about how similar bir...
Let me set the scene. clears throatÂ
You just brought your baby home. The sun is shining. You’re exhausted, but hanging in there…
…and then the damn sun decides to set.
And suddenly? The anxiety ...
In case you missed it: it’s World Doula Week!! YAY!!!
I get asked all the time what got me into this work, and honestly… my “why” looks a little different than most doulas.
Back in 2021, I was ful...
I hear a lot of birth stories. And when I work with second and third-time families, I almost always hear about their first one.
What they loved, what they didn’t, what they wish had gone differentl...
I get this question at least twice a week; in texts, in DMs, in my inbox.Â
"What should I eat to boost my milk supply?"
And I'll be honest with you: the answer is nothing. Not because food doesn't...
For Pregnant And Postpartum Parents Who Don’t Want To "Wing It"
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