Sacred Haven Birth Services

04/23/2026

I guess all that baby was waiting on was for his mama to get her belly henna last night before he decided to come! After 2+ weeks of prodromal labor and two false runs to the hospital, he made his debut fast and furious. I made it up to labor and delivery with about 6 minutes to spare.

Hospital elevator selfie #1 at 4:55, baby born at 5:03. Elevator selfie #2 at 7:20, placenta in hand ready for the encapsulation process.

04/22/2026

A simple tulip magnolia themed henna belly tonight with a beautiful mama who is so ready to meet her fifth little one any day now. ❤️❤️

03/31/2026

There's a mama in need in our community and I'm hoping y'all will show her some love in her last few weeks of pregnancy.

K came to me a couple months ago looking for doula support for her fifth baby's birth. Her last birth was during the height of Covid and was extremely traumatic. When we met for our first prenatal visit, K got teary eyed telling me about what she had gone through as a Black pregnant woman on Medicaid, navigating rude ignorance in medical staff and an overall lack of empathy for the challenges she faced in birth.

This time will be different. She's got a great provider and has hired me to be by her side throughout labor and birth, which is a deep honor.

Unfortunately, as she's only one month away from her due date, her family is now facing some serious financial struggles -- her husband had a work accident where he almost lost a finger and is on temporary disability right now. They don't have funds to cover much more than rent and basic living expenses. I've already deeply discounted my doula fee by 50% and we've figured out a payment plan, but I wanted to see if our community would step in and help ease K's burden. I know any amount you can spare would be so appreciated and make her family's life a little easier during a tough time.

Anything you donate will go directly to K's doula expenses. I so appreciate any love and support you can show her!!!

03/09/2026

Hello, Huntsville!!! I'm so grateful to be in my TENTH year of taking care of families as a birth doula as well as offering placenta encapsulation! It's been an amazing decade with 125+ births attended and 50+ placentas encapsulated.

It's been a busy season between midwifery school and handmade ceramics, but I'm thankful to still be working in the role of doula and placenta encapsulator. I'm serving families in the Huntsville / Madison area within a ~20 mile radius.

As always, home birth, military, and Medicaid discounts are offered as well as flexible payment plans. Thank you for supporting my work as I move forward in my midwifery journey!

10/31/2025

✨✨Midwives are for everybody✨✨

As an ADHD queen, I love having my hand in multiple endeavors at all times, especially when it comes to my special passion of birth.

One of those endeavors has been working with an incredible company, , since the start of this year. Quilted’s goal is to support midwives and increase midwifery access. They began in Washington state but are hoping to expand across the country — i would be thrilled to see their offerings reach Alabama someday!

My job has been to extract and enter midwifery outcomes data into the Washington state database. It’s been an incredible learning process as a student midwife, as I’m essentially getting to read case studies and see the entire process of a clients prenatal, birth, and postpartum care within different midwifery practices in Washington state.

Thank you to for this thoughtful gift (along with a tshirt!). I can’t wait to use this notebook as I continue on my student midwife journey!

10/13/2025

A magical celestial belly for a beautiful first time mother. It was so lovely this morning sitting in the sunshine with the fall breeze blowing, smelling the lavender of the henna (made by .by.anna.laura), seeing and feeling baby move under my hands, and chatting with the parents about the soon-to-come birth.

09/04/2025

After 7+ years and dozens of placentas encapsulated, it is still an honor every time I get to care for someone’s placenta and make it into medicine for their postpartum healing. ✨

This magical organ is grown for the sole purpose of sustaining and bringing new life into the world. Once it has done that, it can be used as part of the healing process for the postpartum parent as they recover from the work of pregnancy and birth.

If you’re in north Alabama and are interested in learning more about placenta encapsulation and the reported benefits, you know where to find me. 🥰😘

07/15/2025

Such a beautiful henna session tonight for two incredible parents. My first time doing henna for both parents!

I could not be more thrilled to be supporting this family on their journey to birth and to be doing so alongside as she provides community midwifery care.

Setting all the intentions for this baby to be born safely at home in peace and power. 🫶🏻❤️

03/18/2025

What an incredible legacy -- 60 years of donating blood in order to save babies!

If you've been pregnant and you have a negative blood type, you've probably heard of Rhogam and were given it during pregnancy and after birth. This injection helps your body not develop antibodies that would attack future babies that you carry. This development has saved so many lives since the era when no one knew about this and many pregnancies ended because of it. This doctor had a rare antibody that is needed to make the Rhogam shot and gave blood for 60 years in order to help that shot be made. So amazing!

Doctors in Australia were struggling to figure out why thousands of births in the country were resulting in miscarriages, stillbirths or brain defects for the babies. In 1967, they discovered the babies were suffering from Haemolytic Disease of the Newborn, or HDN. The condition arises when a woman with an Rh negative blood type becomes pregnant with a baby who has Rh positive blood, and the incompatibility causes the mother’s body to reject the fetus’s red blood cells.

Doctors in Australia discovered that a very rare antibody in blood called Anti-D could be used to make a lifesaving medication that when given to mothers whose blood is at risk of developing HDN would keep the baby safe. Researchers scoured blood banks to see whose blood might contain this antibody and found a donor in New South Wales named James Harrison. Scientists asked him to participate in an experimental Anti-D program that turned out to be effective in saving these babies.

For more than 60 years, Harrison donated blood every single week and his plasma was used to make millions of Anti-D injections. Every ampoule of Anti-d ever made in Australia has a piece of James in it. Because about 17% of pregnant women in Australia require the Anti-D injections, the Australian blood service estimates that Harrison has helped 2.4 million babies in the country.

After donating 1,100 times, at 81 years old, despite wanting to continue, James Harrison was forced to retire from donating blood. James Harrison, appropriately nicknamed “The man with the golden arm,” passed away last month at the age of 88, one person who without exaggeration saved millions of lives.

Read the full article: https://aish.com/one-person-can-change-the-world/

02/27/2025

So thrilled that Alabama Cohosh Collaborative is offering free menstrual cups to folks in Alabama from now through March 21st! This has been a dream that's a long time in the making and our ACC team has worked really hard to make the dream come to life.

If you need a cup, apply here and please please share this post!

04/04/2024

A few new placenta mugs lately. All hand thrown on the wheel. Been putting in lots of practice hours there. ❤️ These are getting harder and harder to part with!