The Doula, Cassie

22/08/2025

Mom and dad do date night (baby boy is beside me lol)

What does a birth worker who just had a baby and moved to a different state do? Be a wife and a mom and a friend and when the time comes to serve moms and families again, do just that. There is no rushing it. There is no room for shallow relationships for the sake of attending births. I wait and meet people and form trust with my new community! And that really takes time and it’s really okay!! Trusting the Lord with it all, and eager to start again! ❤️

05/08/2025

A reintroduction feels appropriate?

Hi! I’m a Christ follower, wife, mother, sister, friend! When I have the honor of supporting mommas and families as their doula, all of those roles peek through in one way or another. I love birth and seeing the way God designed our bodies to move, stretch, and labor to bring our babies into our arms! It’s wild and intense and so very good. I don’t believe there is anything to be scared of. So many generations of women before us have told the story of it being scary and something to run away from and turn off feeling to “just get through it” and I’m hopeful I can be a small bit of change in that narrative for my daughters and the women to come in my circle of life. But I also know, women haven’t been supported how they should and deserve to be. Being held, served, and loved deeply in birth changes everything! That is what I am here for 🤍

31/07/2025

My sweet boy has been in our arms for 9 months. Almost the same amount of time he spent growing in my womb. His birth taught me that I don’t have to be “ready” for the next thing to enjoy it. I don’t have to even feel prepared to trust that God will carry me through, and give peace and joy along the way. His birth was really a gift and a lesson. We moved to Tennessee 3 months after his birth and that lesson was such a huge part of trusting God in moving and all the things that would come. Happy 9 months out, Sweet Boy ❤️

30/06/2025

I’ve been feeling like there isn’t enough time to be distracted or to dull life. Life is everything from beautiful and easy to messy and tragic and I want to feel it all to understand more of God and His love and mercy. I want to soak every inch of my children up and love my husband uninterrupted. These photos are moments that felt worthy of stoping to take a photo 🤍 I finally feel like I’m fully living these days and I feel really excited to begin serving mothers and families again. From a full cup ❤️

29/06/2025

Coming back from the social media dead and I’ve learned I really do not like it hahaha my preferred method of communication is certainly sitting across a coffee or bite to eat or even our babies and children rolling around us! However, living in a new state and coming back from a long and needed “maternity leave” from birth work, I do really value to way social media connects people who may have never crossed paths naturally! So here we are! Can’t wait to meet you ❤️

20/08/2024

18/07/2024

Baby oh baby 🩵 it’s our turn again!!! November(ish) can’t come soon enough!!!

09/03/2024

One of my best friends had her baby this week. She labored all day, slow and steady. As the evening approached she made the call and her home began to fill. In a comfortable way. With midwives, an assistant, three friends and so much love. Her in laws were in the living room occupying the oldest three kiddos. We took turns running after electrolytes, more warm water for the tub, washcloths, peppermint oil, snacks, grabbing the two-year-old, grabbing the five-year-old, taking care of all the things so dad could be right by her side. Most importantly, we sat in the awe of a birthing mother.

Right before the baby made his entrance, the midwife exclaimed comically “you have some good doulas taking care of you”. My heart SWELLED!! This was it!! This is the image all mothers deserve to have if they want it!! Calm, loved, held, carrying her through until we can no longer walk where she goes. When a mom has nothing else to worry about, her body takes her to a different place to see her baby through. So powerful, yet humbling, so beautiful to witness.

I was the only “trained” doula in the group of three women the midwife was referring too. But that absolutely did not matter. You can’t “train” for these moments. It was so organic. Just three friends caring for a mother as she labors and greets her newest child into their home.

03/01/2024

One thing I’ve learned since attending births for only a little over a year is that there is nothing quite like watching a mom come back into reality after so intentionally disappearing into herself to bring her baby forth. It’s wild every singe time! You will here “how did I do that” or “what just happened” and I laugh and cry a little because I got to witness their transformation from beginning to end. Oh how special it is. Not every birth goes this way and I feel so strongly about helping moms and family’s prepare for this once and a lifetime moment. Teaching them how to protect the space it takes to achieve and fulfill it. Birthing detached and distracted doesn’t leave room for these moments. The fight it may take (even if the fight is within your mind) is so very worth the work and effort you will need to put it ❤️

01/01/2024

Birth was never a topic of conversation growing up, as most of us can contest. But through my journey of taking the reins and responsibility of what birth is to me and my family, it has opened up so many sweet moments of connection in my mom, her mom and other amazing women in my life. Becoming a birth servant/worker/sister has become so healing to many of us. Three generations of disconnect from birth and postpartum will stop here and hearing the healing in her words stoped me in my tracks! I’m so thankful to continue on in discovering more beauty of birth.

28/12/2023

My last birth of the year happened so fast no one made it😮‍💨 but man did this mom and dad so gracefully welcome their baby girl into their home that chilly morning! I arrived about 10 minutes after baby girl arrived and I assisted mom in her placenta delivery and into the bed eventually! I walked outside to capture what it would look like from the outside looking in at this peaceful home birth!

I’m so thankful and truly full of joy that I was welcomed into each of these family’s lives. I’m honored. I’m grateful to have birth become a beautifully normal part of my life! It’s changed so much of how I see the world and myself. I love this work I get to do ❤️