Sweet Beginnings Birth Services, LLC, Chantilly, VA (2025)

02/25/2025

New info on Vitamin K

02/07/2025

The double hip squeeze. 🤌🏻

This dad and I spent hours taking turns giving this mama the hip squeezes and sacral pressure she needed to work through her labor.

My favorite part of being a doula is probably witnessing how beautifully husbands support their wives as they go through the motions of labor and birth. It’s intense and just dang hard sometimes.

He isn’t feeling any of it himself, but he’s so connected to her by the love that he has for her. His hands find just the right place to give counter pressure, and his words are just the emotional support she needs to get through the next wave of intensity.

What a joy to witness this journey as they work together to welcome in a new member of their family.

Congratulations to this beautiful family on baby H. 🤍

12/17/2024

Walk into a room while I am supporting a birth and you might think that I am just sitting there doing nothing. I won’t be talking. I won’t be touching the client. I won’t be using anything in my bag.

So what am I doing exactly?

🪑 Watching mom’s breathing and sometimes breathing loudly alongside her to remind her to slow down her breath

🪑 Scanning mom’s body during the contraction to make sure that she isn’t holding any tension

🪑 Monitoring the temperature and lighting to create the peaceful environment that she desires

🪑 Calculating how long it has been since she emptied her bladder

🪑 Thinking about how long she has been in her current position and thinking about the next position that she might try

🪑 Timing contractions to see if they are longer, stronger and closer together

🪑 Thinking about when mom and her partner last had a snack

🪑 Reviewing her preferences to make sure that everything is going according to her plan

🪑 Giving the couple space to connect on an intimate level (allowing for oxytocin) and/or guiding the partner to be the lead support

🪑 Updating notes and capturing labor flow

Sometimes just being fully present is enough. Sometimes just knowing I am there in close proximity is all mom needs to be able to relax and focus on what she needs to do. Sometimes just holding space for them in an unbiased manner allows for a noticeable shift in the energy of the room.

And the list goes on….

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08/30/2024

Homebirth! 🥰
It’s about so much more than just birthing your baby at home (although that is the bomb).
It’s about the way the parents are both treated and loved and supported…how the baby is treated and loved and supported as needed.

This homebirth was filled with joy (as you can see on mom and dad’s faces). There was so much calm as her early labor shifted into active labor. Her own mom fed us delicious food while tending to the older girls. Her midwives and I watched her and made suggestions as she asked for them. But ultimately she was so in touch with her baby and her body as she made her way through the dance of labor.

I watch her strength as she makes space to bring her sweet baby into the world. I am never not amazed by the power of moms giving birth. I watch her husband come closer and provide that beautiful, strong support we need at the end.

New life. A growing family. A beautiful story unfolding in the master bedroom while the other kids play in the room over.

Homebirth is trust and power and life-changing. It’s extraordinary, but also just another ordinary day where your family grows by one within the walls of your own home.

It’s saying yes and no where you feel led, while having that decision honored and respected. It’s eating your own food, moving as your heart desires, and having authority over your birth choices.

It’s having strong, wise women at your feet who know when to sit on their hands and when to act. It’s cuddling your newborn immediately, birthing your placenta when your body is ready, and weighing your own baby when it’s time.

There’s really nothing like it 🤍

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Chantilly, VA

Website

http://sweetbeginningsbirth.com/

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