Kelly Ellis Doula Services

04/06/2026

Because knowledge, decision making, and being heard are so important!

Let me help you prep for meeting that sweet nugget of yours!

03/31/2026

Want the knowledge of a doula but not them at your birth?

This is PERFECT for you!

Reach out to get on my schedule.

03/28/2026

No better way to start a Saturday!

03/26/2026

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Dear C-Section Scar,

I didn’t want you. I didn’t plan for you. In fact, I did everything I could to avoid you. But today I touch you with compassion. I smile at you. I send love, grace, and tenderness to you.

You are not weakness. You are not failure. You are not a mistake. You are part of me.
You are not a dead end, the place where my birth journey halted and could travel no further. You are a passage I am still discovering. You are the door that opened to my baby. You are the door that opened into who I am as a mother and as a woman.

Riding over bumps in the car. Laughing and coughing. Bending at my waist. The day I stopped taking narcotics to soften your pain was a milestone. The day I could get out of bed without holding my husband’s arms and without searing pain was a milestone.

The day I could stand up from the rocking chair while holding my baby was a milestone. The day I could sit on the floor to play with my son and make my own way back up to my feet was a milestone. The day I could bend over to pull my underwear up by myself was a milestone. These were milestones I resented. I didn’t want to have to be passing through these milestones.

I wasn’t prepared for the numbness. I couldn’t feel anything when my fingertips touched my own skin in the inches between my belly button and p***c bone. My fingers felt like they were touching someone else’s body; there was no feedback from my nerves that had been cut. It felt like I was touching something in me that had died.

The doctor cut through six layers of muscle, tissue, and organ to get to my baby. She separated my abs in the middle and pulled my baby through. I have met at least seven new layers within myself because of you.

You are not my whole story of becoming a mother. But I will never know how my birth as a mother would have been different had I pushed my baby out of my va**na.

C-section scar, You are the dark place cut into me that opened into light. You will never be one simple story, but you will always be mine.
Posted in dedication to all the C-section mamas✨
By: Catherine Gray
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03/20/2026

What a perspective switch. Never looking at spilled milk the same again😭

I once heard all spilled milk goes to heaven.

At first it sounded like something people say just to make a tired mom feel better.

Because if you’ve ever pumped breast milk…
you know the heartbreak of having liquid gold… gone in seconds.

But the other day I heard someone say the milk we spill here…
doesn’t actually go to waste.

It goes to the babies in heaven.

The ones whose mothers never got the chance to nurse them.
The ones who were only here for a moment.
The ones whose mothers left the hospital with empty arms and aching hearts.

And suddenly the spilled milk didn’t feel so tragic anymore.

Maybe somewhere in heaven there’s a quiet nursery… rocking chairs that never stop moving…
tiny babies wrapped in soft blankets.

And every drop of milk that hits our kitchen floors
or spills from our pumps is gathered up there.

Saving a seat for the babies who were loved on earth but raised in heaven.

So the next time your milk spills
and you feel that familiar frustration rise in your chest…

maybe take a breath.

Because maybe it didn’t go to waste at all.

Maybe it just found the babies
who needed it most. 🤍

03/19/2026

LOVE letting people know how a doula can support an epidural birth!

Please share with your pregnant friends! I love supporting ALL kinds of births!

03/18/2026

Do it!!!

03/03/2026

Come!

12/02/2025

About what those cervical checks look like in household items😂😳

11/01/2025

Someone needs to hear this!

Please reach out if you are struggling! That 4th trimester is JUST as hard and important as all the others!

The more I’m learning about the hormones and the effects it has on your mothering journey, the more I’m realizing my passion for birth knowledge and helping women before, during and after baby.

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