The Inked Doula

08/03/2025

I love this. I’m a little curious and like to see this and know.

Love it! 💯👸💝

08/03/2025

Bahahahahaha!

07/21/2025

Two babies this week. The first on Wednesday and one on the way right now. Headed to Ft.Worth rn. Hopefully a baby sometime this morning!!!

07/17/2025

My stomach is still numb from my C-section.
Not sore.
Not healing.
Just… numb.

Long after, I can touch my lower belly and feel nothing.
The scar is there.
But the feeling? Gone.

They don’t tell you that after a C-section, the numbness can last forever.
That sometimes the nerves just don’t come back.

People say C-sections are the “easy way out.”
But they cut me open to bring my baby into the world.

I winced every time I stood up.
I held my incision just to sit down.
I cried when laughing hurt too much.

Now I have a scar that healed…
but a stomach that still doesn’t feel like mine.

C-sections aren’t easy.
They’re brutal. They’re brave.
And they leave behind more than just a scar.

If your stomach is still numb too,
You’re not broken.
You’re a warrior.
And that numbness?
That’s proof you survived.

©️Momming On Empty

07/13/2025

How do we get babies out?
Dance Dance Dance!!!!

Yes, I dance with my clients!!!

07/07/2025

Baby?
Maybe?

07/06/2025

Some of the things I do for my clients.

What are these? I call them postpartum popsicle pads! I make them for my clients with pregnancy/postpartum safe ingredients.
I make them and then I put them in the freezer. And when they freeze I give them to my client to use. They are very helpful for postpartum. When she gets home from the hospital she can use them. Just peel and put them in the mesh panties from the hospital, or trust their own. Whatever. The frozen pad is very soothing! It’s not just a cold pack and a Tucks, although I do use Tucks with witch hazel

07/05/2025

What are these? I call them postpartum popsicle pads! I make them for my clients with pregnancy/postpartum safe ingredients.
I make them and then I put them in the freezer. And when they freeze I give them to my client to use. They are very helpful for postpartum. When she gets home from the hospital she can use them. Just peel and put them in the mesh panties from the hospital, or trust their own. Whatever. The frozen pad is very soothing! It’s not just a cold pack and a Tucks, although I do use Tucks with witch hazel

07/04/2025

So sad.

In the U.S., postpartum complications are the leading cause of maternal death.
Not pregnancy. Not birth.
But what happens after.

And for moms who had a C section?
Let’s call it what it is:
Major abdominal surgery.
Muscles cut. Organs moved. Nerves severed.
And they’re sent home in 2-3 days… with a newborn.
No nurse. No real recovery plan.
Just “see you in six weeks.”

Then they’re expected to smile. Function. Breastfeed. Entertain visitors.
While healing. While bleeding. While breaking.
And if they struggle?
They’re told it was “the easy way out.”

Easy?
There is nothing easy about being stitched back together and left to survive.
There is nothing easy about healing while keeping another human alive with no rest and no help.

We don’t talk about it enough.
We don’t support mothers enough.
We don’t respect C-sections, or birth trauma, or the postpartum period like we should.

And it’s killing mothers.

This isn’t okay.
We deserve better.

07/04/2025

I got some more ink! I love it! I will say, the leg was a bit painful. But I love it!