Losing It in Labor – Five Tips for Partners
How to Help a Laboring Person Who is Feeling DONE As parents prepare their minds and bodies for the upcoming birth of their child, many partners have the same thought…
Birth Ball – Tools of the Doula Trade
How a birth ball can help a laboring parent progress and find rest As parents prepare for the day of their baby’s arrival, they are presented with a plethora of…
20 Reasons to Sign Up for a Childbirth Class at 20 Weeks
As your belly grows and your sweet baby puts on the ounces, there are many exciting milestones! The first time you feel those tiny feet kicking, making it to the…
How to Mine an Uninvited Birth Story for Gold
From the moment a parent (or their midsection) announces their pregnancy, they are inundated with a barrage of birth stories from friends, family members, and even strangers. These stories tend…
The Trouble With "At Least"
Ahhh…at least. The Fruit Cake of human communication: endlessly doled out with the best of intentions, and absolutely horrible. “But what’s so bad about saying at least?” you may wonder.…
Your Birth Story is 30 Years Long
…Or 41 years or 16 years or however long you’ve been a resident of Planet Earth. And you thought your cousin’s 24 hour long birth story was brutal! 😉 In…
My Birth Story, and Why I’m Telling It This Way
The story of Inanna’s Descent has been told in my Birthing from Within series since I became an Advanced Birthing from Within Mentor. This story is over 6000 years old,…
Surviving Postpartum
Three Tips to Help You Through the First Six Weeks After Birth There is so much build up, so much excitement at the end of pregnancy about meeting your new…
The Greatest Birth Story Ever Told
What We Can Learn from Jesus’ Birth It may seem odd for a Muslim doula to be writing about the birth of Jesus, but believe it or not,…
Repeat After Me: "I am Enough"
Hey you! Yes, you…the one who replays decisions you made during your birth over and over again. The one who ponders the “what if’s” when you’re alone in bed at…
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