Personal Musings

It was late in the evening and about 28 hours into a long birth. My client had experienced some complications and had just made the decision to have her baby by cesarean. Though she knew she’s made the right call, my client was still feeling some deep disappointment. Her OB tried to help her make […]

A friend recently shared a story with me about her 5 year old. My friend was feeling terrible because her son had come to her with a GREAT IDEA! and was so excited about it, and my friend had to break it to her son that it wasn’t a good idea after all. Her son’s

True or false? “A doula is an advocate for the birthing family.” Trick question! The truth is that while a doula can advocate for birthing families in general, advocacy has no place in the birthing room with an individual family. When you are supporting a mom in labor, you need to ensure that your voice

It seems tantalizing. If insurance companies covered doulas, everyone could have a doula and all the doulas would have thriving businesses….or would they? While I love the idea of expanded access to doulas, especially to the populations that can least afford it, let’s take a closer look at how insurance coverage might change things for

I’m in grad school right now. Before I started, I spend WEEKS doing all my blogging and social media for the duration of my program, so everything you have been seeing and will be seeing for months was written and scheduled last Fall. I haven’t even written anything about COVID because I was knee deep