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You Can Say No. A Note on Informed Consent in Labor advocacy birth pregnancy Sep 08, 2026

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...

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Preparing for a Redemptive Birth (After One That Wasn't) advocacy birth pregnancy Aug 05, 2026

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 ...

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A Doula's Real Job? Filtering Out The Noise. advocacy doula pregnancy Jul 08, 2026

A Doula Is Basically a Human Filter (And I Mean That As a Compliment).

Here's something nobody tells you about pregnancy: you are about to become the proud owner of more information than any human br...

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"Isn't It Too Early to Take a Birth Class?" (No. And Here's Why.) birth pregnancy Jul 01, 2026

I get a version of this message all the time:

"I'm only 16 weeks... is it too early to start preparing for birth?"

And every time, I want to gently take that person by the hands and say: friend, you...

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Questions to Ask Your OBGYN (Before You're Stuck With Them) advocacy doula pregnancy Jun 10, 2026

Before I became a Doula I had no idea how someone picked their OBGYN. I thought you just googled who is in your insurance network and call it good. But YIKES, is that a mistake. 

I too often see my cli...

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How Do I Stop Being So Anxious About Labor? anxiety labor pregnancy Apr 27, 2026

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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For Pregnant And Postpartum Parents Who Don’t Want To "Wing It"

Join our Newsletter for tips, tricks, thoughts, and more! So you're not scrambling through pregnacy and postpartum. 

You Can Say No. A Note on Informed Consent in Labor

Sep 08, 2026

You Can Say No. A Note on Informed Consent in Labor

Sep 08, 2026

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