Safe & Sound Births

03/20/2026

HypnoBirthing isn't about a quiet birth or an unmedicated birth. It's about finding peace with how your birth unfolds; it's about learning coping mechanisms and comfort measures with your partner; it's childbirth education to ensure you feel safe in your labor and trust yourself to make the right decisions for you.

If you are pregnant & any of the above resonates with you, sign up today for this amazing series & spend five weeks preparing your mind & body for a labor you'll love. ❤️❤️

03/17/2026

This baby is going to have the Luck of the Irish! Magically, it's also her mama's birthday!! I bet her grandma never imagined when she gave birth to a girl that that girl would also give birth on that same day 32 years later. 🍀🍀

I feel lucky just getting to be here! What a birth!!

03/16/2026

If I could go back to my fourth trimester, I would so love to invest in myself & my mental health to build myself up, find support, & grow my village. Willow Tree is a group of women mental health providers who get it. I highly recommend signing up!

03/09/2026

Feeling overwhelmed by allllll the info out there about birth? Check out my latest blog for tips for who to trust & how a doula can help!

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information out there about birth, you aren't alone. Doula Sarah Austin talks about how to filter information on the internet, how to ask the right questions, how to talk with your providers. Whether you want an unmedicated birth or plan an epidur

02/28/2026

OMG THESE CLIENTS!!! Sweetest couple ever with the stinkin cutest baby girl!! That cookie cake though!! 🎂👀♥️♥️

Someone recently asked me how I can do this job where I'm always on call and missing events or losing sleep. It's not just for the births that go smoothly that keep me going, but the ones where I feel like if I wasn't there by their side, they would have felt alone & scared when things deviated from the plan.

It is so nourishing to me and cup filling to hear 'I couldn't have done that without you' or 'I don't know what we would have done without you,' or 'you are an angel.' I can't believe I get to be an angel on this Earth to people. There's nothing more rewarding to me than making sure women & their partners feel safe & heard in their labors.

Yesterday, I spoke at an event at BWMC called PEARL (Perinatal Empowerment & Advocacy with Respect & Learning) which was a program started by compassionate nurses and their amazing, forwardthinking leadership (Dr Kendra Coles) who saw how the stats on doulas (from decreasing csection rates, deceasing intervention rates, increasing birth outcomes, including reported maternal satisfaction rates, increasing breastfeeding rates, etc) and wanted to help build that relationship with doulas, providers, and nurses. Doula support changes the way birth unfolds. I'm excited to continue to partner with BWMC to help increase patient access to doula care.

Thank you to this beautiful couple for letting me be a part of your birth story. It was an honor! She literally laughed her baby Earthside with so much love and joy. They were my HypnoBirthing clients as well and it was so amazing to get to help them achieve the kind of birth they wanted!

02/27/2026

March happenings!!! The Rumina Center in Severna Park has more Milk & Cookies events!! All welcome!! Build that village and/or get some breastfeeding tips while making new parent friends. ♥️♥️♥️

02/26/2026

Feeling very sad for the women delivering at Saint Joseph/Candler Ob in Georgia. And yet grateful BWMC, Howard County, & AAMC are supportive of doulas. BWMC has an event tomorrow where I'll be speaking about trauma informed care that doulas offer. I'm on their PEARL (Perinatal Empowerment And Advocacy with Respect & Learning) committee that's goal is to inform nurses & providers of the power of doulas to improve birthing outcomes as part of their doula integration program. 💪💪❤️❤️

02/25/2026

From Amanda Lovelace's book "Break Your Glass Slippers"

This poem really made me think of pregnant bodies and how they change through the weeks & months, and then again how they change throughout the postpartum year.

Studies shows that babies' DNA stays with their mothers decades after birth. Microchimerism is where fetal cells travel through the placenta and integrate into the mother's organs, blood, and skin for years!

So, if you're ever not loving your postpartum body, remember that your baby's DNA is still in there helping you out & talk as kindly to yourself as you'd want your baby to tall to themselves. ❤️❤️❤️

02/20/2026

Unbelievably proud of this mamabear who brought her baby here exactly as she wanted- using hypnobirthing techniques for an unmedicated, powerful birth. She listened to her body and breathed her baby Earthside into dad's arms. Sweetest family ever!! And the Dad painted this!! 🤌🤌🤌❤️❤️❤️

02/18/2026

Last chance to sign up for HypnoBirthing classes starting next week!! Register today at www.safeandsoundbirths.com

02/16/2026

A labor of LOVE ❤️