10/24/2025
“Surrender To The Flow” After hours of hip squeezes and shower support, we transitioned to this moment of shared strength. 💕
After kneeling beside the shower for a couple of hours, supporting this mama as she moved from early labor into true, active labor, mooing like the powerful mama warrior she is 🐮💪, things began to move quickly.
Active labor picked up so fast in the shower that shortly before this photo was taken, Abby was checked and was 6–7 cm’s which nurse Annie used her hands to show us that Abby was now 6 to 7 cm which had us all laughing, 😂😂😂since we’d joked earlier about “six seven” while explaining its meaning to nurse Annie, who had no kids. This kept the mood light and airy and funny.😄
Sweet nurse Annie offered me a dry pair of scrubs after my shower support marathon and then jumped right in to take a turn doing hip squeezes, while I wrapped my arms around this incredible woman in a moment of calm and connection. 🤍
This is what teamwork in birth looks like — when doulas and nurses work hand in hand, mothers feel it. ✨
A huge thanks to daddy Patrick for picking up my camera at the perfect time to capture this precious moment. 📸💫