Empowering Doula Services

Empowering Doula Services I offer personalized birthing support as well as postpartum healing. My goal is to give you and your family the support that you deserve and need.

Mama did it yall!! She pushed through even when she didnโ€™t think that she would make it, she did it! Papa bear did his t...
08/08/2025

Mama did it yall!! She pushed through even when she didnโ€™t think that she would make it, she did it!

Papa bear did his thing helping mama get through each surge of contractions but they did it! She did it!!!
So proud ๐Ÿ’™

07/23/2025

โ€œEND THE TOXIC FAMILY CYCLE

If you come from a family of drunkards, let that cycle end with you. Let drunkeness never pass through you to the next generation.

If you come from a family of drop outs, no one gets to finish school or go to University; end that cycle and reach the highest level in study, prove that even your family tree can produce an intellectual.

If your relative's marriages never last, your parent's marriage was a disappointment; end that cycle, when you get married have a marriage built to last.

If you are a man and your father used to beat up your mother; end that cycle, be the opposite of your dad and love your wife like a real man should.

If you come from a tribal family where decisions are made through tribal lenses; end the cycle, show your family that love knows no tribe.

If the family you come from has been living in poverty; end that cycle, make money, lift your family to wealth.

If members of your family are largely known for mediocrity or shameful acts; end that cycle, be excellent and successful, bring pride to your family name.

If people from your family are known to be mean,cold and tempered; end that cycle, work on being friendly, warm and approachable.

If your family has been involved in witchcraft, su***de, curses and ungodliness; end that cycle, introduce God in your family tree, declare that as for me and my house we will serve the Lord!

You don't have to carry forward the shortcomings in your family down the lineage to the next generation. Love your family but learn from their mistakes. You don't have a say in determining the family you are born in to, but you can determine who you become and the kind of future and family you will have. Your decisions affect generations to comeโ€

CTTO ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿผ

๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก
07/23/2025

๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก

.
This is what a contraction looks like.

Not the Hollywood scream.

Not the sterile hospital gown hiding the power.

Not the monitors and machines riding the wave.

This is the body, rising with power.

A uterus surging.

A partner holding steady.

A room holding space.

This is labor.

This is the work.

This is what it means to bring a baby earthside with nothing but the bodyโ€™s own rhythm and force.

Let them call it pain.

We know itโ€™s extraordinary power that lives within us.

-Love,
Flor Cruz
/ .like.a.badass

๐‡๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐๐š๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐Œ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ž, ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž, & ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ!

07/16/2025

Please don't be timing contractions that are more then 10 minutes apart. GO TO SLEEP!!! Missing that first night of sleep when you think labor is starting is so detrimental to getting the job done.

๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ
06/19/2025

๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ

This family!!! Love them so much! It was truly an honor to witness the strength and labor of this mama and baby!!Every d...
06/15/2025

This family!!! Love them so much! It was truly an honor to witness the strength and labor of this mama and baby!!
Every day you pushed through and allowed your body and baby to do what was necessary. You never pushed it but listened to your body and understood what you could handle in those moments. Iโ€™m an truly happy and proud of how far you have came along. God has truly blessed you all throughout this whole process and I the love of the lord truly shines through you all.

Baby boy came on Fatherโ€™s Day and he is doing well!

Congratulations Hogu Family ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ

๐Ÿ’™

06/06/2025

I think itโ€™s time for some policy changes. Everyone understands the business side of things but do people understand that everyone runs their business differently and how they want?!?โ€™

New policies coming soon because this doula donโ€™t play!!! ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿงก

Super happy and excited for this family. Mama definitely pulled through and did all that she could and listened to her b...
06/05/2025

Super happy and excited for this family. Mama definitely pulled through and did all that she could and listened to her body. Papa has been supportive and helpful and I just love that for this family. Congratulations to you both. It was a pleasure helping you all during this time. Truly looking forward to continuing support for your postpartum โ€œhealingโ€ journey.

This โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ
05/17/2025

This โ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธโ€ผ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ

๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ
04/29/2025

๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ

๐ŸŒฟYour Birth Story Matters ๐ŸŒฟ

Even if it didnโ€™t go the way you hoped.

Even if parts of it feel blurry, heavy, or hard to talk about.

Even if you've been told, โ€œAt least youโ€™re both okay.โ€

You deserve more than that.

You deserve to feel whole again.

If your birth experience left you feeling confused, distressed, angry, guilty, ashamedโ€”or just not okayโ€”youโ€™re not alone. And you donโ€™t have to carry it alone.

A Birth Story Session is a safe, compassionate space to explore your story in your own words, at your own pace. With the gentle support of a Birth Story Specialist, you can:

โœจ Make sense of what happened
โœจ Release whatโ€™s been weighing you down
โœจ Reconnect with your own strength and wisdom
โœจ Begin to feel peace where there was pain

You donโ€™t have to โ€œmove on.โ€

You get to move throughโ€”with support.

๐Ÿ•Š๏ธ You are not broken. Your story deserves to be heard.

Book a session today. Itโ€™s not too late to heal. https://birthstorymedicine.com/mentors/

Picture:

๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ
04/15/2025

๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฝ

โญ๏ธ๐Ÿ…ฒ๐Ÿ…พ๐Ÿ…ป๐Ÿ…พ๐Ÿ†‚๐Ÿ†ƒ๐Ÿ†๐Ÿ†„๐Ÿ…ผโญ๏ธ
โ•‘
Colostrum is the first milk your body starts producing around 3-4 months of pregnancy. It's full of antibodies and immunoglobulins, which not only help protect newborns as they come into our world of bacteria and viruses, but also has a laxative effect that helps them expel the tarry first stools called meconium.
โ•‘
Your colostrum can vary from the a golden color to clear and be a bit thick/sticky.
It is low in volume but high in concentrate nutrition for your newborn. Itโ€™s measured in teaspoons, not in ounces.
โ•‘
This is what your baby gets from your breasts for the first 3-4 days of life until your mature milk comes in.
โ•‘
The misconception is that babies need ounces upon ounces of milk immediately upon birth and mothers feel pressure to formula feed.
โ•‘
Babies tummies are the size of a marble upon birth, so the low amounts of colostrum in your breasts are very filling and satisfying to your baby.
โ•‘
Studies of large numbers of breastfed babies suggest that on average babies consume:
โค๏ธ1/2 ounce of colostrum per feeding in the first 24 hours
โค๏ธ2/3 ounce of colostrum per feeding by 48 hours
โค๏ธ1 ounce of colostrum per feeding by 72 hours, when mature milk production begins
โ•‘
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐›๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐š๐›๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐ž ๐ก๐ž/๐ฌ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ค ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ง.
โ•‘
-Love,
Flor Cruz
Badassmotherbirther

๐‡๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž ๐๐š๐๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐Œ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ
๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐จ๐ซ๐ž, ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž, & ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐ญ!
https://m.facebook.com/SamanthaReneeBirthPhotography/

๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก
02/26/2025

๐Ÿงก๐Ÿงก

Address

Baltimore, MD

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Empowering Doula Services posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Share