Seattle Birth Co, Bothell, WA (2026)

01/08/2026

Seattle Birth Co is growing and looking for Doulas! Please email myseattlebirth@gmail.com and send in some info about yourself/resume. Will schedule interviews and details about the collective.

Also currently accepting inquiries for birth doula mentorship opportunity.

Join the fun (and hard work) of our group ❤️🤗

01/08/2026

✨ Let’s Talk About VBAC ✨

Many moms are never truly given the chance to consider a VBAC — even though the evidence shows it’s a safe and realistic option for many.

Here are a few important facts:
• About 33% of births are C-sections
• Only around 15% of eligible moms have a VBAC
• Yet 80–90% of those who try for a VBAC are successful

That gap matters. 💛

The World Health Organization suggests that an overall C-section rate of around 10% is ideal. When rates climb much higher, outcomes don’t improve — yet repeat C-sections are often presented as the default.

💫 VBAC is just birth.
It doesn’t require anything special — just time, patience, and a provider who supports physiological birth.

How your baby is born matters — for your health and your baby’s long-term health. Immune development begins in the womb, and the birth process plays a role in supporting that foundation.

Every mom loves her baby. And many quietly wish their first birth had felt more supported or empowering. It’s okay to want something different next time. Many moms “wake up” after their first birth — seeking more information, more choice, and more trust in their bodies.

✨ If VBAC is something you’re curious about:
• At least give yourself the chance
• Learn the evidence
• Seek out a truly VBAC-supportive provider
• Surround yourself with support (hello, doulas!)

🎧 I also recommend the latest VBAC episode #445 on the Birthing Instincts podcast — a great conversation about informed choice, support, and trusting birth.

You deserve care that feels supportive, respectful, and empowering — whatever path you choose. 🤍

01/08/2026

✨ Let’s Talk About VBAC ✨

Many moms are never truly given the chance to consider a VBAC — even though the evidence shows it’s a safe and realistic option for many.

Here are a few important facts:
• About 33% of births are C-sections
• Only around 15% of eligible moms have a VBAC
• Yet 80–90% of those who try for a VBAC are successful

That gap matters. 💛

The World Health Organization suggests that an overall C-section rate of around 10% is ideal. When rates climb much higher, outcomes don’t improve — yet repeat C-sections are often presented as the default.

💫 VBAC is just birth.
It doesn’t require anything special — just time, patience, and a provider who supports physiological birth.

How your baby is born matters — for your health and your baby’s long-term health. Immune development begins in the womb, and the birth process plays a role in supporting that foundation.

Every mom loves her baby. And many quietly wish their first birth had felt more supported or empowering. It’s okay to want something different next time. Many moms “wake up” after their first birth — seeking more information, more choice, and more trust in their bodies.

✨ If VBAC is something you’re curious about:
• At least give yourself the chance
• Learn the evidence
• Seek out a truly VBAC-supportive provider
• Surround yourself with support (hello, doulas!)

🎧 I also recommend the latest VBAC episode on the Birthing Instincts podcast — a great conversation about informed choice, support, and trusting birth.

You deserve care that feels supportive, respectful, and empowering — whatever path you choose. 🤍

01/05/2026

10 Steps to a Truly Empowering Birth

Many women today approach birth feeling disconnected, fearful, or piecing information together from social media. And while none of that is wrong, it rarely leads to a deeply empowering birth experience.

Birth stays with you—for life.
You will carry it in your heart and mind forever. So prepare for it the way you would for something sacred… like your wedding day.

After over a decade of supporting births—and birthing my own four—here’s what truly matters:

1. Connect to your body & mind in pregnancy
Nourishment (non-negotiable), hydration, movement, bodywork (massage, chiro, pelvic floor therapy, acupuncture), mental health support, and quality supplements.

2. Your birth team matters
Talk to people who know birth. Learn about providers and settings. Choose wisely. And yes—hire a doula (look into insurance coverage!)

3. Consider midwifery care
Seriously. Look into it. I mean it.

4. Take quality childbirth education
Independent. In-depth. Partner included. Skip generic hospital classes.

5. Fill your mind with positive birth stories
Books, podcasts, videos. Stop consuming fear—scary stories won’t serve you.

6. Have a birth plan & know your options
Ask questions. Advocate. Know all the options available to you. Never settle.

7. Do pre-labor prep
Movement, bodywork, dates, tinctures, rest. De-stress. Trust your body. Avoid unnecessary inductions.

8. Honor early labor
Rest, nourish, then MOVE. Don’t rush to the hospital. Let hormones find their rhythm.

9. Balance in labor
Hydration + electrolytes, protein, movement and rest. Upright positions help—but rest matters too.

10. Surrender
Birth is surrender. Sometimes plans change. Trust will carry you—no matter where birth takes you.

✨ I teach all of this (and so much more) in my private childbirth education sessions.
DM me to book your consultation and let’s prepare for your birth the right way.

01/02/2026

2025 was a HARD year.
The kind that grows you whether you’re ready or not.

It stretched me. It shook me. It took me through unexpected twists and turns I never could’ve planned for. There is so much I want to say about how this year went—and yet, I can’t quite find the words. I am both hurting and deeply grateful. In awe and still in shock over all that I witnessed and lived through, in my personal life and in the birth world.

This year was a lot.
It forced me to reflect. To question. To soften. To let go. To sit with discomfort instead of rushing past it.

As I move forward, I know this: I will be pulling back in a major way. Creating space. Making room for something that is trying to be born within me. I don’t fully know what it is yet—but I trust it. And when the time comes, you will be the first ones to know ◡̈

For now, I’m sharing a few stats from this year in my life as a doula—numbers that only begin to tell the story.

To every soul whose path crossed mine this year: thank you. Thank you for your love, your trust, your care. Thank you for the lessons, the mirrors, and the inspiration. I truly believe that every single day of this past year was intentional and meant to unfold exactly as it did.

Here’s to honoring the hard seasons—and trusting what comes next 🤍

01/02/2026

I intentionally took a month off to rest, slow down, and celebrate the holidays… yet most of my January babies decided to give their parents a tax break and arrive in 2025 😉 Somehow, I knew I’d be working through the holidays this year—so without much pout, when Christmas Eve came around, I was on my way to support some truly beautiful births.

One very necessary C-section after 30+ hours of hard labor with twins—who surprised everyone by weighing over 8 pounds each.

Three powerful, unmedicated, awe-inspiring births.

Another surprise for me? I got to visit two hospitals for the very first time: UW Montlake and St. Joseph Medical Center. I was genuinely impressed, grateful, and happy to add both to my birth-world experience.

We welcomed Christmas babies, a New Year’s Eve baby, and even a New Year’s Day baby. What a powerful way to close out the year.

My heart is so full. This season reminded me—again—why I do this work and how grateful I am for the team that sticks by me, even on the holidays!

Now I can’t help but wonder… what does 2026 have in store? 🤍

12/26/2025

I attended a birth this week that completely blew my mind. The depth of connection I felt to this mother was something I haven’t experienced in months—and days later, I’m still carrying it with me.

What surprised me most was her connection to her body and her baby. The trust. The surrender. After a complicated first birth, she dreamed of an all-natural, out-of-hospital experience. But pregnancy had other plans. Blood work shifted everything. Hospitalization. Meds. A highly medical path. And still—she stayed grounded and hopeful.

When her baby’s birthday arrived, it was a medical induction. Yet she was calm, determined, and glowing. When contractions began, she was laughing with her husband in their Christmas-filled room. I remember thinking I might be early. I stepped back, letting them eat and be together—letting oxytocin do its quiet work.

A few hours later, her water broke and everything changed.

Breath deepened. Work intensified. We walked, swayed, used positions, brought in the TENS unit. Then the tub. Warm water. Hypnobirthing tracks. In that small, quiet space, her body fully opened. She stayed in the tub for over an hour, and it felt like we lived a whole lifetime together in that bathroom.

She went so deep that her husband whispered, “Is she sleeping?”
I whispered back, “I don’t think so.”

Then she looked at me and said, “Three more—and I want to get out.”

When she stepped out of the tub, her body took over completely. She climbed into the bed and—within moments—caught her own baby. No one was ready. Not even the doctor.

Watching her hold her baby after everything she walked through will stay with me forever. She got everything she wanted in birth—and more. And I truly believe it was her trust that made the way.

This birth brought me back to the “why” I cherish this calling on my life to walk alongside of women in their most vulnerable moments of life.

12/23/2025

One month off birth.

I intentionally created space away from birth over the last five weeks. What a deeply healing time it has been—travel, rest, recovery, and simply being.

I’ve been quiet here too. Somewhere along the way, my desire to share faded.

Part of it is burnout.
Part of it is the weight of some truly hard and tender situations I walked through this year as a birth worker.
And part of it is knowing I needed to turn inward instead of outward.

The birth world is ever-evolving—beautiful, demanding, intense—and it constantly asks its keepers to hold so much. There is so much to reflect on. So much to surrender. And some things… I still don’t have words for. At least not words I’m ready to share publicly.

Have you ever experienced that?
Holding a steady smile for clients and families while internally processing everything your eyes and heart are witnessing?

My eyes have seen a lot this year.
My heart feels it, heavily.

I’ll be sharing some quiet, beautiful moments from this month away—and I’m genuinely looking forward to what’s ahead ✨

Here is to coming back, even though I am not sure quite exactly what that will look like ❤️

12/11/2025

39 weeks. The homestretch. The last week!

For so many women, this is the hardest part of pregnancy.

You are so ready to meet your baby, and at the same time:

Your body is tired, achy and sore.

Every cramp or twinge has you wondering, “Is this it?”
The mucus plug shows up and you’re torn between “Did my water break?” and “Is this normal?”

Talk of inductions starts circling for what can feel like the smallest reasons.
Stress, fear and excitement are all tangled together.

And here’s the difficult truth: that mix of pressure, fear and overthinking can actually send your body and hormones a message to hold back from labor instead of embracing it. During the time you most want to meet your baby, it can feel like your mind and your body are working against you.

After more than a decade of walking with families through this exact week, my number one piece of advice is this:

Do things that make you genuinely happy and say good bye to stress and busy!

Not as a trick to “make labor start,” but because joy, safety and connection are what allows oxytocin to flow. And oxytocin is the hormone that helps bring your baby.

At 39 weeks, give yourself permission to enjoy your life:
Take a slow walk. Go on a small date or solo coffee run. Watch something that makes you laugh. Eat food you love. Make a simple memory that has nothing to do with centimeters or timing contractions. Go on a date with a friend or your partner!

Stay in touch with your provider for anything that feels off. But in the spaces between those checks and decisions, choose PEACE over panic whenever you can.

You got this mama ❤️

12/05/2025

Oh baby girl, yes I do 🌟 (and so does your incredible midwife ❤️)

You came into this world in your own timing, leading the way and completely changing hearts from the first day of life! You are incredible, so blessed and so loved by everyone around you 🌟 I pray your life continues to be an abundance of blessings, beauty, health and faith! You are going to change this World, Capri - one heart at a time 🥹❤️

What an honor birth work is. Real people. Real hearts. Changed - forever 🌟 Thank you God!

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