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Professional Pregnancy, Labor, Birth & Postpartum Support Services Welcome to Columbus Birth Arts! My name is Elaine Tucker.

I’m a DONA trained Birth Doula serving Columbus & the Central Ohio area. I love babies and the parents birthing them! I’m interested in being a positive support for laboring women + couples and bringing a culture of calm confidence back to the birthing process. My aim is to listen, support, inform, care and assist.

05/28/2025

💸 NUTRITION ON A BUDGET 💸

I have decided I’m going to start a series in stories that share ideas for low cost, nutrient dense foods and bevs. For my 2nd pregnancy my family lived on not even 30k/yr. I had to learn how to stretch our budget to cover the needs of the 3 while still focusing on a growing 4th. Food scarcity and the shame that goes along with poverty is very real. It’s stressful. It’s hard sometimes to remember that eating something is better than nothing even when you can’t make the most privileged food choices.

To top it off, I didn’t know how to navigate the systems of social aid. I attempted to get signed up for programs at my local resource center but after a 4-5hr visit where I was wrangling a 5yr old at the same time, without any results, I left defeated and gave up. Just resolved to figure out how to scrape by. I grew up resourced, and I didn’t know how to be unresourced. It was a very eye opening experience and built sympathy/empathy in me. But I held myself in guilt for a long time, believing that it was my own fault for getting pregnant unexpectedly at 25.

Present day Elaine wouldn’t just give up. But then I felt isolated, unfamiliar with navigating systems for help, exhausted by full time mothering & pregnancy and working 2 part-time jobs, one of them birthwork. I think I was too ashamed to even talk about it with anyone. But I think my momma knew. She sent us “taco money” every couple weeks for years. 😭

Sometimes now when I’m counseling people on nutrition I think back to that pressure. And I guess I just came to the inspiration of collecting all the cost efficient nutrition strategies into one place here. Maybe it’ll help someone find a solution of their own. 💕

Pictured here is one of my pregnancy staples for protein: what I call cottage cheese sundaes. Cottage cheese is low cost and protein rich. And toppings are easy to vary but avocado, a type of berry and some nuts are my usual combo. Sunflower seeds are very affordable. On weeks that I couldn’t afford berries the other items all together still offer a hearty snack/lunch.

05/01/2025

There is no desire or need to convince anyone to birth at home. Home birth families know who they are already. They seek the midwives. I know bc I have felt the call myself. And you just know when it’s right for you.

And this will always be the way. Bc birthing where your soft animal body lives, rests, dreams, loves…is built into the blueprint of birth. So the knowing is kind of a remembering. It’s truly a homecoming in one’s body to simply…birth.

To strip away tales of caution and woe and choose what you know is right for yourself. The homecoming, the blueprint speak to you and that’s all you need.

That’s all I needed.

There’s no personal agenda, or focus on quantity {At least for me} It’s a focus on quality. It’s just about being here. Just like home.

We’re here. Those who seek us will find us.

04/28/2025

Head’s Up H*mpers!
Time to address 2026. And remainder of 2025. Reach out for my very professional services if this message speaks to you!

04/18/2025

The sweetness of meeting and skin to skin bonding becomes redemption when you missed out on this experience with your first birth.

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04/11/2025

Even if this app collapses and fails to perform to the intentions of others by no longer reaching the masses, I will still be here sharing what my clients allow me to share. That’s what this has always been about for me.

Bc these clients know what it’s like to walk through a long, arduous first birth and need hope that the 2nd experience can be different. Beyond that, it can actually be everything you dreamed of for a second birth! Sharing real examples of hope and joy are so needed.
Just as much as real stories of sacred struggle and pain.

Endlessly amazed by the strength & joy of birthing parents. And forever thankful for midwifery care both inside the system and outside the system. WITH WOMEN in all the places they birth, in all the ways.

04/09/2025

My clients know my belief that the grace of labor is in the in between. It’s in the rest. The pause. It’s the design of labor to always give us more rest than work in birth. And that smart design shows it’s all part of the plan that this be DOABLE for all of us. Not only as birthing people, but as support people too. We may not “know” how to counteract the intensity of contractions fully. But that is not ours to bear alone. We know how to comfort and help her find full rest and relaxation so her body can make full retractions.

We do not have to try to push labor to be as fast as possible, as much as possible. That is an old falsehood that we have to let go. Follow your labor. Use the spaces & pauses that are given to you. Use your instincts that tell you when to move and when to rest. Move & rest. Move & rest. Could anything be more human? It’s a mirror of our human rhythms. Remember your biggest tool in labor is the in between. Master the in between and the rest is just a ride.

04/02/2025

💕 Repeat clients. Dream birth. Dream job. 💕

03/27/2025

Musings during WORLD DOULA WEEK:
{take what you like, leave the rest}

This is my client intuitively using her body in the way that felt instinctual to her. No one is coaching her, no one is really in her bubble. In this moment, she is just unfolding & responding to her labor.

With the ever growing commodification of birth that is now happening from the NATURAL side of the aisle it seems like now birthing people are getting an ever smaller window of support that allows them to just FIND THEIR OWN WAY.

It’s like an echo chamber has begun where Birthworkers are creating this ever growing pressure to have the answers! Be the savior! Make her labor shorter! Make it ecstatic! Know the exact right thing to do to get baby in optimal position! Minimize all pain and sensations! Take this new training for 💸💸 to learn how to micromanage another person’s bodily function!

And, I just don’t think that is the way. At least I don’t think it will ever be my way.

It takes a conscious effort and a right-sized ego to fight back against the pressure to step in and control another woman’s birth. And we have to acknowledge it happens in natural birth too. I have seen support become control. I have seen a woman de-centered in her own experience. My advice, to take or leave, is for everyone who is at anytime in the sacred space of birth to remember that our whole purpose is to support the mother & baby in finding THEIR way together. It’s not about making a birth fit into any certain parameters.

Now, I’m not saying I sit back and let people flounder. I’m not saying I don’t make suggestions or comfort measures. I’m not even saying I’m correct in my approach, but I know that I value a balance of letting people have their own experience and then adding to it. In this birth we did do some bodywork. I did make suggestions.

But moments like this, when mama is just RESPONDING are much more important than any position I could ever suggest. Even if I know the “right” ones.

Bc this one is HERS. And I’m a fool if I don’t value that above all else while sitting at her feet.

Doulas are worthy of much celebration but it’s always & forever bc the mothers share their way with us.

03/17/2025

The littlest birthworker!
Entrusting the next generation with the wisdom of birth. Birth has long offered children an opportunity to exercise their empathy and show caregiving skills. It’s not just about them SEEING birth. It’s equally important that they feel comfortable and empowered to participate in family birth.

I remember when this little lady emerged into the world in this very spot, in this same birth tub. And now at only 3.5yrs later she showed up with commitment to her mother and little sister. 🥹 Can’t wait to share this birth tour. 💖

03/14/2025

This was such a special birth. A reunion of a birth team almost 4 years in the making. It was a birth that represented so much growth. The literal and figurative growth of a birthing woman, her children, her family. The growth of her midwife & midwifery team. My own growth as a doula and student midwife-there’s been probably 100 births for me since we were last in this space together. And the growth of their circle present in their birthing event. It was a true community birth! At one moment I looked around and felt pride that I had witnessed all 3 little people in the room come into this world.

We are all so capable of providing loving, safe births for each other. We’re all capable of so much growth. Thank you to the families that keep showing me all the ways.

02/20/2025

😍 Very cutesy. Very demure. 😍

Look at this most amazing, badass placenta I’ve ever seen in all these years. The intricate compensations built into this cord & placenta were amazing.

This, is a great example why the homebirth midwifery model of care rarely artificially ruptures the bag of waters. The placenta & amniotic sac carry far more wisdom about where on the sac and when to rupture than even the most discerning of humans is able. We simply don’t have the whole picture with our brains on the outside. But the body, the baby and the bag DO. A “routine” procedure can easily turn into an obstetric emergency with a placenta such as this. (Although that too is very rare)

🌀This is more than an organ. It’s a blueprint for pregnancy, birth & life! 🌀

02/13/2025

We can return birth to families in ways both simple & big. Something as simple as offering/asking a birther to check their own cord, to feel if it’s still pulsating and to let us know when it seems done, is a way keep the bubble undisturbed for mama & baby. It’s better than assuming we must ascertain these things for women. They can and often enthusiastically will if we slow down and think to let them. Those that don’t feel comfortable- or even logistically able - will then direct us to step in and help.

All the love to this mama, who didn’t even need any prompting to check on her own this time around 😍 Feeling the life force flow between you and your baby is such an amazing experience that we only have opportunity to experience in these few fleeting moments, if we’re lucky.

Please take advantage of this sacred opportunity, birthers. Please facilitate this sacred opportunity, providers.

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Welcome to Columbus Birth Arts! My name is Elaine Tucker. I’m a DONA trained Birth Doula serving Columbus & the Central Ohio area. I love babies and the parents birthing them! I’m interested in being a positive support for laboring women + couples and bringing a culture of calm confidence back to the birthing process. My aim is to listen, support, inform, care and assist.