Peachey Pregnancy Co Newsletter

Peachey Pregnancy Co. Newsletter

Occasional emails with thoughts, research, and personal stories about work and life.

Hi friend, Today is October 15, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. If you have lost a pregnancy or a baby, this email and today are especially for you. Your baby mattered. You are a parent. And your grief does not have an expiration date, no matter what anyone (including the voice in you...

Oct 15, 2026

Pregnancy Glucose Test: What It's For + Alternatives

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 leads to the three-hour test. I often receive some version of the same text from my clients: "...

Oct 14, 2026

How To Advocate for Yourself in Labor: 5 Phrase to Say

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 of with you, and you have about four seconds to figure out what to say before the conversation move...

Oct 07, 2026

Hospital Bag Packing (Without Overpacking)

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 the stuff that earns its spot in your bag. So let's go through it, section by section, with the ...

Sep 23, 2026

Cluster Feeding Is Not a Sign You're Failing (It's Just Tuesday)

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 personally withheld food from them for a week. You feed them, they pull off, fuss, latch again. This repe...

Sep 16, 2026

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

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 close. Informed consent is not a form. It is not a one time event that happens at admission and then...

Sep 09, 2026

New Town, Same Mission: We've Landed at Fort Rucker

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 doula from El Paso." We moved to the Fort Rucker, Enterprise, and Dothan area this month. And alth...

Aug 26, 2026

"But What Do I Do With My Hands?"

HEY BIRTH PARTNERS! LISTEN UPPPPPP! 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, your shirt collar, whatever is closest. And you, a fully grown adult who can parallel park and a...

Aug 19, 2026

"You haven't started pumping yet?!"

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. Let's get one thing clear: You are not behind. So how about we talk about this properly. There i...

Aug 12, 2026

Preparing for a Redemptive Birth (After One That Wasn't)

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 whole nervous system is bracing, like you're walking back into a room where something bad happene...

Aug 05, 2026

El Paso, I Wasn't Ready for You

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 orders said: Fort Bliss, El Paso, two years, and then we'd be somewhere else, some other dot on ...

Jul 29, 2026

What "support during birth" actually means

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 what does that ACTUALLY look like at 4am when you've been in labor for 14 hours and someone just suggested...

Jul 22, 2026

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