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There is a very specific flavor of dread that shows up around week 4 postpartum, right when maternity leave starts coming to an end (because god forbid the US value mothers and newborns).  The questio...
The glucose test screens for gestational diabetes, a condition that usually has no symptoms. Most people take it between 24 and 28 weeks. It starts with a one-hour screen, and only an elevated result ...
Your OB says "we usually just" and every muscle in your body locks up.
We both know that feeling. It's not exactly fear... but it's the sense that a decision is about to get made around you instead o...
People ask me for "the list" so often that I finally just made one. An actual, doula-approved, born from 150+ families supported, birth bag list. Not a Pinterest, TikTok fantasy over-packing list, but...
Ohhhh cluster feeding. A buzzword on TikTok and the internet, but what does it actually look like? Let me explain:
It's 6pm. Your baby, who nursed twenty minutes ago, is rooting again like you persona...
Somewhere along the way, "informed consent" turned into a piece of paper you sign in the intake packet along with your insurance card and your emergency contact.
That is not what it is... Not even cl...
New town. New grocery store where I still don't know which aisle has the thing I need (ha. let's be honest, Jason does the grocery shopping). New group of families who have no idea I used to be "the d...
HEY BIRTH PARTNERS! LISTEN UPPPPPP!Â
Yes, you. Here is a moment I have watched play out more times than I can count as a birth doula. Contraction hits, she grabs the doorframe, the counter, your hand...
Somewhere around week 30 of pregnancy, someone in your life (your mother, a coworker, a stranger in Target) is going to ask you "so are you pumping yet?" in a tone that implies you are already behind....
There's a specific kind of pregnant that I don't think gets talked about enough. It's not the glowing, excited, "we finally get to do this again" pregnant. It's the kind where you're excited AND your ...
I've started this letter about ten times. Deleted it about ten times. Because how do you sum up four and a half years in a place you never planned to love?
We came here for two years. That's what the...
When you Google "how to be supported during birth," you get roughly 400 versions of the same three answers:
- Hire a doula.
- Bring your partner.
- Talk to your provider.
Cool. Very helpful. Now wha...
For Pregnant And Postpartum Parents Who Don’t Want To "Wing It"
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