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I'm excited and honored to support you and your family during birth and postpartum!

03/28/2025

To the mothers, the ones who have invited me in to walk with you as your body and heart grow a new life, thank you. Thank you for trusting me and welcoming me to hold space for you. I wish you could see yourself through my eyes. You would be so amazed, so proud of yourself. The holding of your hand while you breathe through surges, the pressure on your back during every wave, the brushing of your hair, the holding of a wet cloth, the whispers that you get to meet your baby soon-- they come from a deep place in my heart. This place was born from pain but lives through a calling to serve you in your motherhood. It is such an honor. I will never get over it.

World Doula Week 2025

05/12/2023

Teacher friends! You are appreciated and important

04/27/2023

If you've had a cesarean, did you realize that you're likely a candidate for VBAC? I believe that the misinformation out there is what makes our vbac rate so low. A few things about VBAC:
👉 Your birth team matters. Find a provider who will support your desire to VBAC and who will give you the facts. Hire a doula who can walk alongside you.
👉 The rate of uterine rupture is low. Over 98% of women will not experience uterine rupture.
👉 There are risks that come with repeat cesareans. This includes placenta accreta, increased need for a hysterectomy, blood loss, and major complications associated with the surgery.
👉 You don't have to have a VBAC, but you deserve informed consent. Make sure your provider explains the risks and benefits of VBAC and RCS.

04/14/2023

One of the goals of is to bring awareness to ways that cesareans can be more family centered. Often times, I think c-sections feel like something is being done to you and you're not an active participant. A cesarean is a valid way to give birth, and it should be meaningful and special. There are others, but here are some things that could be done in a family centered or gentle c-section..

03/22/2023

It's world doula week starting today. I won't pretend that I have a huge following, like I do more than I really do, or like I'm all booked this summer, but I want to share what led me to pursue this.

I was pregnant in the height of the pandemic, and because I have type 1 diabetes, I was labeled high risk. I had so much fear in my pregnancy and so many unknowns. I never worked with a nutritionist, never was told really how type 1 can impact pregnancy, but was told that I would be delivering my baby via induction at 37 weeks. Period. "That's just what we do with moms who have type 1," was the reason I was given. My gut told me that my body wouldn't be ready but I didn't know that I had options. I didn't know who to ask for help. I had a cesarean birth after a long induction, then my son was in the NICU for 4 days. My whole pregnancy and first few days postpartum, I was encouraged to do things that didn't feel right to me as a mom but I did them for the sake of survival. And I was going to be darned if I couldn't breastfeed my baby. After being told, once again, that I couldn't do something that I desired to do as a mom due to my autoimmune conditions, I finally listened to my gut. By the way y'all, our intuition is POWERFUL.

I booked an appointment with Meredith at and was told that I was doing a great job, that my body was doing what it was supposed to be doing, and I finally felt like I was being heard. Like someone was supporting me and encouraging me to be the mom I wanted to be. From there, I learned more about birth and what a doula was. A woman who gives support, comforts moms, and provides education. I never want another mom to feel unsupported like I did, or like they have no options. Being a doula allows me to do so many things I feel gifted in, like teaching. I am so thankful that I have the opportunities I do and I look forward to what I will continue to learn.

03/13/2023

These are just some of the ways a birth doula can offer support. A friend of mine once compared hiring a doula to hiring a wedding planner. I think it's a great analogy. Hiring a doula relieves some of the mental load in pregnancy and postpartum because you know you have constant support from an expert.

I'd love to know, what was the most helpful way your doula supported you? If you have never hired one, what do you think would be most helpful? And for doulas, what's your favorite part of supporting clients? I love it all, but my favorite part is the education aspect.

03/07/2023

Every mom deserves the individualized care and support doulas provide.

02/21/2023

Last week, I put my one year old down for bed one last time. I can't even put into words the gratitude I have for being able to be LJ's mom. He is my pride and joy. So much joy. Last week, I felt those feelings and tried to soak him all in.

But in the weeks leading up to his birthday, I've relived the trauma of bringing him into the world. Poor me, a year ago, trying to survive and still trying to make sense of what happened. Two years ago, feeling stuck and not knowing how to take any kind of step forward. Because I don't feel like I gave birth, I feel like I had surgery. I feel like something happened to me, like something I never had was taken from me. There's no way to express how it feels, when you've looked forward to becoming a mom your whole life, and you feel no connection to your baby when you first see them because you're shaking on an operating table. A few weeks ago, when thinking about tomorrow, I thought "that will mark 2 years since my surgery." That had me reeling. I saw my therapist and agreed that it was a trauma response. I needed to feel my feelings and give myself time to reflect on my own experience in birth.

As I felt my feelings and struggled through it, I called my brother. I admitted to him that I've struggled with my understanding of God since giving birth. If you know my brother, please know he's not all brains and deep conversations and that he's become so good and shepherding, and I'm thankful for his guidance. We talked about scars and how we carry them with us. He told me that the literal scar I have on my body awoke in me something new. He has no idea how true that is. Becoming a mom in the way I did made me reconsider what identity really means, that I'm not just a mom and that I'm many things all at once. It helped me see a calling God placed on my heart start to come to fruition. A call to serve and teach women in their motherhood. I never knew what that would look like. I thought for a while that it looked like teaching on a stage or in my home with a degree behind my name. But now I see that it looks like supporting the mama who's struggling with breastfeeding. Like squatting to squeeze hips, like pushing hair away from faces, like whispering "each wave gets you closer to your baby." It looks like going over birth options and explaining how our bodies were designed to birth our babies.

If I didn't have a cesarean, I wouldn't have experienced the pain, but I also wouldn't have experienced the healing.

Happy Birthday to my sweet boy.

01/17/2023

Just the presence of a doula can change your birth experience. 💙💗

01/13/2023

I've been kind of quiet for a month or so. Not really a great strategy for business, but I have had to do a lot of reflection on what I really want out of my work as a doula and what I can do with the time I have.

I was never much of a goals person until I started grad school. Then I realized that setting goals gave me direction and allowed me to make a plan.

Do you have any goals for this year?

11/19/2022

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. I've been living with Type diabetes since I was 7. I felt like my pregnancy was overshadowed by the fact that I had. Diabetes. Boy oh boy, did my providers take me for a ride. So many decisions were made for me. So much fear. Neither of these things are a recipe for a positive experience.

The information out there is limited about T1 pregnancies is limited. It's hard to find research in order to make informed decisions. I hope that will change in the future. Here's to a better future for mamas with Type 1 💙

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