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Full Spectrum Doula, Advocate, Educator, Neurodivergent Human

03/11/2024

Note: there was a connection issue at the beginning of the video but the actual announcement (and better connection) starts at 4:15 into the live.

What's in store for the future of Rauha Birth Services

11/09/2023

You might be neurodivergent and postpartum when your therapy sessions involve extensive basic needs check ins. Things like this:

💤How's your sleeping💤
🍴Are you eating🍴
💧Are you drinking water💧
🛁Are you getting to shower🛁

So here I am post shower thanks to my mom helping out for the day. Working day by day on those foundational hierarchy of needs🙃😬

11/08/2023

This is what breaking trauma cycles looks like.

Smashing toxic perfectionism and masking expectations.

When my kiddo looked at me through tear filled eyes after an already highly emotional morning and said "Mom I don't want to go to school. I want to stay home with you and Virginia" I ignored the immediate gut response in my head saying 'It's a school day so you need to go.' and instead embraced this new place of knowing. Sending her today wouldn't gain any valuable knowledge. Wouldn't foster a joyful relationship with learning. Wouldn't help her learn about listening to her own needs and then asking for them.

So instead I said, "OK. We will take a brain break day." To which she gave me a giant hug and visibly relaxed.

What could the world look like if we allowed ourselves this space of authenticity and healing? I hope we are able to find out, because I truly believe we will be better for it.

11/03/2023

Our freezer is stocked.

IYKYK

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11/01/2023

Hey all.

It's hard. I LOVE my work. Like genuinely adore it. But it's becoming abundantly clear that this final postpartum journey is vital and much harder than I'd imagined.

So I'm trying to take my own advice. To lead by example. To prioritize my healing physically, mentally, and emotionally. This is why I am extending my maternity leave through April 2024. Thanks for your continued support and I look forward to coming back better and more ready than ever before.

10/27/2023

I've started doing occasional vlogging via tiktok and this is today's. It raw, real, rage, and there's swears. But if you are open to hearing my lived reality in the broken US perinatal period take a look.

10/26/2023

I have a million thoughts swirling in my head today. Therapy was hard and heavy. I'm raw and hurting. Every tiny action feels like climbing Mount Everest. I have been living the last 6 weeks in a house built upon sand, and today, the waves came in and swept away the shaky false foundation. Now I'm left raw and picking up the pieces of the falsehoods I've been operating under out of survival. I don't know what tomorrow will bring. But today, I'm allowing myself to be in the reality of the brokenness and feel my sorrow and anger and grief for the shambles of a postpartum experience I am currently living.

10/12/2023

When your friend surprises you with a hilarious shirt, you wear it and watch smiles on the faces of others.

09/27/2023

Oh, the joys of a baby's first cold. Nothing major, thankfully, but it doesn't take much to make little ones miserable and struggle with sleep. And we all know....when they struggle with sleep....so do we...💤💤💤💤

09/24/2023

First date night (with our littlest 'crashing') since having baby. Got dinner at then headed to for some quiet relaxation. Thank goodness for Parents Night Out.

09/22/2023

While pregnant, people were often surprised when I would talk about having a doula. They thought since I was a doula, I wouldn't need one myself. Oh my, how wrong that is. I could do an entire month long series on why doulas need doulas (p.s. most are the same reason anyone does), but this picture is just one small example of why.

This is my amazing doula, colleague, and incredible friend Krystal Sarki - Holistic Birth Luminary helping squeeze my hips during a contraction. She literally held me together through pregnancy and especially my final days. Now, at one month postpartum, she is still doing so. Listening to my tear filled emotional status. Coming over and washing my dishes and sweeping my floors while being an adult in my space with me. Krystal Sarki I adore you 💖

I'm forever grateful for her. So yea....doulas definitely need doulas.

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09/21/2023

I did it!!!!!

Life here is absolute chaos right now. My partner has to be away from home right now, so I am solo with all 4 kiddos. Before having to be away, our washing machine broke, and we found out there was no one local that could service it. Well, my partner did some troubleshooting and figured out it was likely a bad drain pump, so we ordered a replacement. Then things came up, and he had to travel.

Well, no washing machine when you cloth diaper and have 4 kids is pretty much a nightmare. So I worked on it in small stints over a matter of days, and today I can officially say it's fixed!!! At 4 weeks postpartum, I replaced a drain pump on our washing machine. Whoop whoop.

Now....off to do laundry 😜🤣

09/19/2023

I'm so grateful for inclusive and accessible places. As a mom with Littles and one that has food allergies it's wonderful to have a place with vegan baked goods, a safe and imaginative play area, and super tasty bevies for me. Let me tell you the Strawberry Ginger Limeade is quite possibly the greatest thing in existence. So here we are killing time before my youngest craniosacral appointment after taking another kiddo to school. Mom life is wild so I'll take my moments of peace while I can.

09/14/2023

This is postpartum. This is postpartum with 4 kids under 7. This is real, unfiltered, exhausting, postpartum life. One moment at a time is how we are taking things. Right now, our priorities are being fed, getting to appointments and school, and minimizing sibling conflict.

If you enter a postpartum house, don't ever judge by the way it looks, by dishes, or floors, or general chaos. Because the intense work that's being done can't be seen. The healing, the learning, the bonding, the peacekeeping, the sustaining, and the surviving.

09/13/2023

I'm standing here in tears. The most incredible human just brought us an allergen AND neurodivergent considerate meal. It's hot. It's accessible. It's unassuming. And it's an absolute gift I needed more than words can express. If you ever wonder what a difference it makes to listen and truly show up for how people need you, not what you think they need, the impact is immense.

09/12/2023

Closing out the Mondayest Monday by sobbing in bed while eating a plateful of lasagna and listening to a s**t novel.

09/10/2023

Last night I managed to eek out a few minutes of quiet but it was pretty quickly interrupted by endless fussy baby. Oh well.

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Moorhead, MN

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7019363245

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