One Baby Sweeter

07/27/2025

So beautiful

07/23/2025

Planning a VBAC often means carrying a whole invisible load behind the scenes:

🔍 Researching providers and hospital policies
🫀 Healing from a past birth
📑 Gathering records, writing a birth plan (and a backup one)
🤹‍♀️ Balancing emotional prep, physical work, and logistics
💬 Explaining your decision to people who don’t always get it

This mental, emotional, and logistical weight is real—and you’re not alone in it. If you're carrying it right now, we see you. 💛

07/07/2025

11/19/2024

Climbing out from under my rock and joining Instagram!!

11/19/2024

You have so many options.

03/23/2024

05/28/2022

What position did you push in?

There are many positions people can push in, traditional (back), side, hands and knees, standing, tub, lunge, close kneed, and even squatting.

Squatting is one that we see often.
Did you know most hospitals have squat bars? All you have to do is ask for one! It provides the perfect support for squatting and kneeling on the bed.

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05/05/2022

Did you have a midwife?

Today, May 5th, we celebrate International Day of the Midwife. In honor of this acknowledgment, DONA International wishes to highlight the Grand Midwives that helped cultivate an industry. Without the skill, perseverance, and dedication of these committed health professionals, midwifery would not have the impact it has today. To read more about the Grand Midwives, please visit: https://quickening.midwife.org/.../black-history-month.../

To all the midwives who sacrifice so much to provide the crucial care, expectant families need, DONA International offers you thanks and support as we celebrate you this day. Happy International Day of the Midwife.

05/04/2022

May 4th is World Maternal Mental Health Day and we want you to know that we celebrate you. We see you. We hear you. We are cheering you on.

Treat yourself to something special today.

Here are a few resources for support parental mental health:





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04/26/2022

What a blessing, to help your sibling into the world! These photos are so beautiful!

04/07/2022

Doulas can be amazing support during a cesarean! I'm so incredibly grateful to mine for the support she provided during and after my unplanned surgery.

April is Cesarean Awareness Month

I put together a few cesarean affirmations that you can repeat to yourself during your birth. Affirmations can greatly reduce anxiety and fear before, during, and after a cesarean delivery. 

"I am birthing my baby in a room filled with love"

"It's okay to be afraid"

"Cesarean birth is birth"

"My body is going to heal"

"I love my baby"

"It takes courage to birth my baby this way" 

"I am surrendering to the flow of life"

Affirmations via - The Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth

03/31/2022

WOW!!!!!!!!