DoulaWise
Offering experienced doula and lactation support for your pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
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Pregnancy To-Do List
When you’re staring at those two pink lines and your mind starts racing, it may feel like 9 months is a lifetime to wait to meet your new baby. While at the same time it feels like there’s a whole lot of things you need to do, and you need to do it yesterday! In
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How to Know: Intuition in Birth
What’s the difference between listening to fear, your intuition and your ego? How do you know which inner voice to listen to? Is there a way to tell them apart? “Trusting your body isn’t contingent on you avoiding medical care when you need/want it. Trusting your body is also listening to your intuition and signs
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The Story of Labor
It’s been a loooooooooong pregnancy. Your brain is exhausted. Your body doesn’t feel like it’s yours anymore. You just want to be done with the stretching and the weight gain and the hormones and the uncomfortable nights and the sleeplessness and the swelling and the restlessness and the peeing every 15 minutes and not seeing
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Postpartum Belly Binding
Belly binding: the ancient tradition of binding the postpartum person in cloth, typically muslin cotton, to help close the bones from birth and support the internal body as things return to their pre-pregnancy positions. This tradition has made its way here, to the US, and is often thought of as a way to rid birthers
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Postpartum Truths
You’ve possibly heard you won’t sleep the same once your baby is here. You’ve been told a million times that your heart will grow exponentially at the birth. You might have been told that the newborn stage is full of ups and downs. But there are things people don’t talk about, or perhaps forget in
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Positive Labor
When picturing labor, do you think of how it’s portrayed in the movies? Where their water breaks, everyone becomes frantic, rushing off to the hospital, the birther is sweating and screaming, legs in stirrups and being yelled at to push? Or do you know that labor is a long, slow dance? One that begins with
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International Doula Month
Being a birth doula has become part of my identity. Being an advocate for pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum health, and lactation counseling has been a passion for the past few years. It didn’t start as being a doula, though. It started as a child hearing stories of birth that weren’t pretty. I’d honestly never
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Birth Affirmations
Before labor even begins, we spend a lot of time talking to ourselves about beliefs and trust. We make a lot of internal check-ins, soul searching, and mental preparation for the task ahead. One of the many things we can do for ourselves, and our confidence is to consider our own strengths, abilities, and where
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Movement or Medication
When it comes to how you prefer to birth your baby, there are no right or wrong answers. Making one decision can affect what choices you then have for labor. For instance, if you choose pain medication, you’ll need constant fetal monitoring and will mean not being able to get up and walk around or
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Positive Cesarean Birth
The twins were 31 weeks gestation. Baby A was a footling breech (feet first), and Baby B was transverse (laying sideways). Active labor begins between 5-6 cm, generally, and 10 cm is typically when you feel the uncontrollable urge to push. I was 8cm dilated and there was a foot visible during a vaginal exam.
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