In the Waiting Doula Services LLC

05/19/2026

Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the difference between being guarded and being soft.

Sometimes we learn to protect ourselves so deeply that we forget what it feels like to simply rest, trust, and receive love without fear.

Sunday, I attended a cacao ceremony, and it felt like something quietly shifted within me. Not in a dramatic way… just a gentle remembering.

It made me ask myself:
Where in my life do I feel softness?
Where do I still feel guarded?
Where have old fears, old wounds, or old patterns convinced me that staying closed off is safer than staying open?

Healing feels less like becoming someone new and more like returning to yourself with compassion.

So lately, I’ve been choosing softness where I can. Discernment too. But also grace for the parts of me still learning how to feel safe enough to open.

05/18/2026

Taylor and Christine sharing today, what a beautiful circle to be part of…thank you Creator 🫶🏽✨🤎🪶

05/12/2026

There comes a point in life where the healing is no longer about becoming someone else… it becomes about remembering.

Remembering the parts of yourself that existed before survival mode.
Before heartbreak.
Before silence.
Before the world convinced you to disconnect from your own knowing.

I am learning that remembering comes quietly… through water, stillness, grief, softness, and the spaces where I finally allow myself to listen.

Not every transformation is loud. Some arrive like a whisper to the spirit. A gentle return back to self. Back to lineage. Back to the wisdom that was always there waiting beneath the surface. ✨

05/07/2026

Tomorrow Night I get to see one of my favorite artist. She is amazing live, saw her with my friend many years ago, this woman is just MAGIC! ✨

*I do not own any rights to the music*

05/06/2026

Happy International Partera Dia Partera Paula

05/06/2026

Wow!! This AMAZING Partera .parteria is full of wisdom and sits with her ancestors, she is walking out her truth as “With Women” can’t wait for her to visit us in Bakersfield, every has to meet her, she is INCREDIBLE!

05/06/2026

Thank you for loving me so much Martha and Mama Mila the best mother daughter Midwives HAPPY INTERNATIONAL PARTERA DIA 🤎

05/02/2026

In came in 🫶🏽 my new obsidian butterfly Itzpapalotl 🫶🏽✨

01/16/2026

First birth for ITWDS LLC, congratulations to the amazing family! Dad did some amazing advocacy for mom’s delayed cord clamping! Straight told the doctor what’s up! I was impressed. This is my first birth of the year of 2026! Let’s go, congratulations to the family!

01/16/2026

This mama labored for five long days — in deep pain, sent home from the hospital twice for “not being in active labor.”

When will the system truly listen to women?
When will our Latina mothers be heard?
When will real concerns be believed instead of dismissed?

At just 1 cm, she felt her baby so low, deep in her body. I spent a few hours with her doing Miles Circuits, offering warmth and comfort. The heating pad brought only temporary relief. By 11 AM on 1/15, the intensity was undeniable. A warm bath couldn’t ease it anymore.

She made the informed decision to return to the hospital. And just as she arrived — her waters broke.
Still, she waited in triage for three hours while in labor.

After shift change, she chose an epidural — and everything softened.
Her body opened.
5 cm. Then 7 cm, with a second bulge of waters.
Within two hours, she was 9.5 cm.

Moments later, that same beautiful bag appeared, and we could see sweet baby boy’s hair.

The doctor came in to check station and break her waters — but her baby was already gliding into the world.
She pushed about 15 times, and her son arrived.

And in that moment, she was birthed too.

The sacredness of birth always brings me back to gratitude — witnessing that first look between parents, their eyes meeting over the miracle they created together.

Thank you to this family for trusting me in one of the most sacred moments of their lives. 🤍

12/20/2025