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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...
Let me say something that might ruffle some feathers.
A healthy baby is not all that matters.
Before anyone comes for me: YES, a healthy baby matters. Enormously. It is the thing every single parent...
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...
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...
I am a Type A, over-preparing, list-making, worst-case-scenario-running planner. Unashamedly. The kind of person who stress-researches things at 2am just to feel like I have a handle on them.
And
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