There are many more than ten things you do not have to do when you hire a Doula for your birth! Did you know that? Things taken off of your plate. The overwhelm can get real, so check out this top ten list of things you...
After months of anticipation, your brand new human is here! This scrumptious little creature is captivating and mysterious. About the time you get home, you may start to ask, "What next?" When else in life have you felt such strong emotions of pride, excitement, and "Oh-Snap-How-Do-We-Do-This?!" at the...
As a business owner, mother of two, and Director of Training & Development for ProDoula, life moves quickly! Time is precious and sometimes has to be strategized. Maybe you can relate? Here are a few of my survival tactics: 1) Coffee. Every morning. This is non negotiable. I have...
We specialize in providing unbiased, nonjudgmental support to every family we work with. It is something we won't compromise on. We know and understand that one, absolute way of traveling pregnancy, birth, and parenting simply does not exist and recognize the importance of every family having...
You’ve spent a while now, growing an entire human. Your hospitality is second to none, as you have literally housed your child within your own body. You love your child, probably can’t wait to see her, smell her, hold her on the outside and the...
If you are like most parents of a newborn or very young child, you are low on a crucial element of good health...
When my two children were much younger, there came a time when they realized that my Christmas stocking would not fill itself. They knew that it was Mama and sometimes Nana who slipped the goods into their stockings, one thing here and a couple of...
The 2am feed. You’re thinking about it before your head hits the pillow at 10. Knowing that before you see the sun again, you’ll be up warming a bottle or offering your breast. With a new baby, it’s inevitable. Sleep is usually interrupted at least once,...
Change: The act or instance of making or becoming different. Let’s face it. Becoming a parent means change. And lots of it. Change in routines, in sleep patterns, in grocery lists, in how we work, in how we play, in how we socialize, in how we...
We have a problem with the word “postpartum”, in western society. There is this pause, this weirdness...