Long before I became pregnant I knew wanted a homebirth. As a doula, I had seen everything from hospital births to birthing centers, epidurals to unmedicated births. Through this first hand...
This is the story of my son, Amadeus Prince, and our journey to get here.
I have been wanting to share this story for months but the truth is, I am still grappling with it.
I...
Do you know I used to be a competitive boxer?
For six years, I trained and worked my ass off to become a champion.
I think about that chapter of my life often and realized boxing and birth...
The common mantra in our society is to have a "healthy mom and baby."
And while OF COURSE that is what we all want, it's actually code for a mom and baby that end up alive after it's...
A doula is usually a female caregiver that provides a laboring mother and her partner with continuous, nonjudgmental emotional and physical support throughout pregnancy and birth.
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Who will welcome baby into the world as its first introduction to life and human contact outside the womb? Your hands? A gloved hand? A stranger? Your partner?
For my first birth, it was a...
When I share that my husband and I prepared for 18 months before even trying to get pregnant, I am usually met with wide eyed stares and a sense of bewilderment. Preparing for pregnancy isn’t...
On April 1, 2017, I gave birth to my first child, Arya Rose. I decided to share the story of her birth because it was both normal and extraordinary, what I planned for but not what I expected and...
Congrats! You’re pregnant. Once the initial joy and happiness sets in, you may start to feel a bit overwhelmed and unsure of what to do first. While creating a registry or setting up the...
