Growing Your Nest Birth Services-Kimberly Williams, RN

07/27/2025

If you need someone to document your special event, is your girl! She captured my daughter’s baby shower, did her maternity shoot today prior to the shower video/photo reveal, and she will do newborn photos after baby gets here.

will tailor her services to fit your needs. She melded in with our family and photographed and filmed without any of us noticing.

07/26/2025

does an amazing job! She goes above and beyond to capture life’s moments. I’m thankful to have met and worked with her in the birth world.

Stay tuned for the results. If you’re looking for someone to video and photograph your special event, reach out to her!

07/23/2025

Equipped and ready to meet their baby soon! 🩵

Getting to know young parents and seeing the joy in their faces as they anticipate the arrival of their baby is priceless.

07/20/2025

Heat lamps were used on the perineum postpartum in the mid-twentieth century, but the practice goes much further back than that.

Here are some examples of how heat has been used in postpartum care:

-Ancient Egypt: Warm compresses, incense
Womb healing, pelvic relief

-Traditional Chinese: warm packs, Restore qi, reduce cold

-Ayurveda (India): Warm baths, oil massage
Balance doshas, promote healing

-Medieval Europe: Hot bricks, warm towels
Pain relief, healing

-Africa/SE Asia: Steaming, smoke baths
Ritual cleansing, warmth therapy

-20th Century Hospitals: Sitz baths, compresses. Evidence-based pain relief

A good plan would be, ice for 12 hours postpartum and then heat for healing and comfort.

07/20/2025

Action shots from today's class. 📸

I have the greatest job in the world! I love forming relationships with young parents and helping them in such a precious time. Giving them the tools they need for a positive labor, birth, postpartum, and taking care their newborn.

07/16/2025

I’ve added a postpartum grab bag to class and it’s so much fun! Having dad guess and see what it comes up with is the best!

And educating pets is always fun to. ☺️

07/14/2025

🪺New offerings!!!!🪺

Building Your Nest Bespoke Birth Services!

Growing Your Nest offers bespoke, holistic pregnancy, prepping for labor, and postpartum services designed to support you in building a strong, nourishing foundation for pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. With gentle guidance, ancestral wisdom, and intuitive care, I will walk beside you as you build your nest.

I often see myself as a Mary Poppins of sorts; or maybe it’s the mama/granny-to-be in me, but I love helping new mamas ease into motherhood. Building Your Nest will allow me to do what I love by guiding expecting mamas from the beginning of their pregnancy journey to meeting their sweet one.

Visit my website for more information: www.growingyournest.com/building-your-nest

07/08/2025

Update from Kimberly Hampton with Middle Tennessee Lactation. 🫶🏼

While I’d love to serve all of Middle Tennessee clients, as my practice has grown and I’ve recently experienced some major health issues, it has become quite the challenge to accommodate 2 service areas and I’ve decided to practice closer to home. Another factor in my decision is that I want to have time provide the best care possible for you, my clients. I never want to compromise providing top-quality, personalized care because I’m spread too thin. You deserve the best breastfeeding support!

I would love to continue serving families from Murfreesboro if you’re willing to do a virtual visit or would like to visit my primary location. We hope this location will also be accessible to Shelbyville, Bell Buckle, Beech Grove, Manchester, McMinnville, Wi******er, and Sewanee families. The next closest IBCLC southeast of Coffee county are my friends in Chattanooga!

Thank you for trusting me with your lactation care, and I look forward to continue serving moms and babies moving forward. Please reach out to me if you have any questions!

I welcome families to visit me at:
📍Amani Women’s Health
106 Westside Drive
Tullahoma

07/07/2025

My heart captured in these stunning photos. 🖤

Stepping back from doula work has been such a hard thing. I know it is God’s will for season, and I have been beyond blessed to serve such amazing women. This mama was 7-8cm in these photos!🤯

Thank you Jess Harris Photo + Film for allowing me to share your work.

❤️

07/07/2025

Fall Growing Your Nest Doula Training Workshop.

October 18th-19th

Join us for a balanced comprehensive doula training course.

Register here: www.growingyournest.com (under doula training tab)

06/30/2025

I want to start a gentle conversation that I’ve been praying about for sometime. Being in the birth world for over twenty years I have seen everything. I spent 11 years in the hospital and witnessed over 3,000 births, and I have attended around 50 births at home.

Of course my algorithm shows birth content and something I have seen is infant loss in a home birth setting. In both instances it was something that could have happened in a hospital: shoulder dystocia and a concealed placental abruption (baby passed prior to birth. Home-birth didn’t happen)

I’m sharing this to say that giving birth isn’t without risks. Babies can pass away and mamas can too. This isn’t meant to scare anyone, but to encourage you to truly dig deep and understand that home-birth shouldn’t be considered because it’s aesthetic or trendy. Understanding that if something happens in a home-birth it isn’t necessarily because it was at home.

I love home-birth it is so peaceful and beautiful to me. I’m not afraid when I step into someone’s home, however, I do take it seriously. I never want my content to feed a romanticized notion of giving birth at home. On the contrary, I want you to be educated and aware so you are able to make a confident decision for you and your baby.