Mindful Mother Doula Services

10/25/2025

Personal values,choices and preparation, family directed birth.

02/25/2022

This is truth.

Busting Douladom myths and rebuilding doula work 🔥

Stinger. But it’s true. Birthroom advocacy requires you as a doula to SPEAK. To talk TO providers. To facilitate conversations that ensure the birthing person is safe and that their expectations of care are listened to, heard and respected.

“But doulas don’t speak for their clients” and “But doulas don’t speak ON behalf of their clients” or “Doulas don’t question providers” is oppressive and harmful. It is also a call to action to check your PRIVILEGE and identify your role in upholding oppressive and harmful systems that lead to obstetric violence and racially driven maternal mortality and morbidity 👊🏽

02/24/2022

Oh my!! There are beautiful wraps for sale in the Uppymama shop!!

At Uppymama we design and create original, handwoven babywearing carriers. Each carrier is made of luxurious natural fibers including the softest cotton, linen, silk and wool. They are all 100% handwoven and finished right here in Canada.

02/24/2022

I'm so blessed that all of my clients have the opportunity to borrow an Uppymama wrap from my babywearing lending library.
We use wraps for support and stretching prenatally. We use wraps during labour and birth. One of the highlights or my work is visiting families postpartum and teaching them how babywearng can change their lives as new parents!!

"Your baby gets all of their information about the world from your body."
This is the most important thing we teach at babywearing consultations.
"Take a moment, take a deep breath, drop your shoulders away from your ears, relax your arms, chest and back."
Your baby will feel your body soften, calm and relax. When you are relaxed and tension free you are communicating to your baby that babywearing is a safe and comfortable experience.
"Pause and wait until your baby has relaxed against your body before you finish tightening and tying your wrap."

01/22/2021

Withessing the transformation of families is endlessly fulfilling work. Choosing a favourite part would be impossible. Teaching babywearing to newborn parents is way up there on the awesomely fulfilling scale. 💗

First Uppy ride for these two.

02/14/2020

💗💗💗Love💗💗💗

11/18/2019

When it comes up, most people assume that I wouldn’t hire a doula, being one myself. ⠀

The opposite is true.
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I have hired support for each birth, not because I *needed* anybody present in order to feel prepared (in fact, my second birth was SO fast, my doula got rerouted a bunch + missed the birth, and the midwife made it as she was being born😄). Rather, I chose to invite someone whom I felt intrinsically connected to, to support us as I led my own birth. I chose someone who I knew saw me as the rockstar that I am, someone who not only trusted birth but also believed just as much as I do in my own intuition. And what I gained in that was freedom, uninhibited confidence in myself, and well...this. The pictures that I have from River’s birth (all 3 of my births, for that matter) mean the absolute world to me. My beloved doula, Becky, sent me this the other day. Aslan was by my side for all 3 births (technically just for the labour of Summer’s, as I had my first babe in hospital). To have this picture to match the imprint Azzy left on my heart is something that I will cherish forever.
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This is what having a doula is for me; someone to hold the edges of the space that I unabashedly take up, while capturing the nuances that string together the bigger moments. Having someone trusted to be present as witness to our birthing day truly is an investment I will never regret. Drop a 💖 if you loved your doula!!

10/13/2019

October babies get Pumkin Spice waffles.