Waves of Life Doula Services LLC of Wisconsin

08/09/2022

Happy, Healthy baby girl! Mama and baby are both doing well. ❤️ Congratulations to the new parents. Now this doula needs to eat and sleep 🥳💕

07/27/2022

You know you’re a birthworker when… you can’t see out your back window cause your birth ball is in the way!

05/11/2022

I’m tired of seeing people say “well, you should just breastfeed” to moms stressing about the formula shortage. Breastfeeding may come easy for some but for many it isn’t easy and can have a negative impact on themselves and their child. Breastfeeding is so much more than just nursing. It’s time, energy, scheduling, lip ties, tongue ties, production issues, pumping, the mental load, I could go on and on. Instead of seeing a woman who is stressing and providing a sh*tty answer, be there for her or just move on.

03/03/2022

😬 stop the spread... of unsolicited advice and birth horror stories

Posted • We don’t have time for all that, girl 💁🏻‍♀️

We gotta protect your bubble at all costs. And one of the easiest ways to do that is by just not taking in horror stories. You do not need to be inundated with constant stories about how things were so painful and omg you’ll go right for the drugs and blah blah blah. Hearing this will do nothing but cause you to steep in your anxiety and worry about your birth and your baby. Their birth is not your birth and your experience will be all your own.

One of the easiest ways to avoid this is 1. Change the subject 2. Say you have to p*e and leave 3. Say thanks, I’ll consider that 4. Tell them this kind of topic stresses you out (my favorite bc honestly sometimes people don’t realize they’re doing this) I am also not averse to screeching like a barn owl and running away. But that’s just me 🤷🏻‍♀️

02/22/2022

Dr. Google

We are all so quick to google our symptoms as soon as we start feeling something. I know I spent most of my pregnancy googling things I was experiencing to see if it was normal or if I needed to go to the hospital NOW. This created so much unnecessary anxiety. One of the benefits of having a doula, is to help eliminate some of that anxiety. Instead of googling “abdominal cramps in second trimester” and reading all of the horror stories. You can just text your doula and she can tell you that you may just have gas. (I may know this from experience 🥲)

02/17/2022

My Doula Story

My story is simple. I brought a child into this world, and got addicted to the birth space. My daughter was a complete surprise. I was just beginning my final semester of college to earn my bachelors degree in communication, when the test read “pregnant”. We were terrified but jumped into preparing for parenthood. Being raised by a doula, I was well prepared for pregnancy and birth. What I didnt know was the intense power I would feel surrounding my daughters birth. There is an indescribable feeling in labor and postpartum. Postpartum was probably the weakest my body has ever been, but somehow it was when I felt the strongest. I created an entire human being. Within just a few short months of being a mother, I knew that my next path was pursuing a doula career. So here we are 🥰

02/14/2022

Happy Valentine’s Day

02/10/2022

Balance

At the Spinning Babies Workshop I attended last month, we learned 3 movements to do with our clients during pregnancy and at the start of labor. These movements would help balance the pelvic joints and muscles to make pregnancy more comfortable, and the baby’s movement through the pelvis easier in labor. Balance is the key.

I have recently started attending Yoga classes. In Yoga, balance in the body is what you strive for. That’s the purpose.

Even in day to day life. Balance is necessary. We exercise to balance healthy habits. We strive for balance in work life and family life. Balance makes life beautiful.

02/08/2022

What Motherhood has taught me:

In labor, there are pauses. You pause between contractions, you pause before beginning transition, you pause when the baby is crowning. These are moments where your body naturally knows to slow down.

In those newborn days, it helps to slow down. Every day feels so long, but when you cuddle up with your newborn your heart longs for time to slow down.

Now that I have a toddler, those moments are much fewer. My daughter is moving constantly. However, there are some rare moments where my daughter comes up and holds my hand, asks me to sit on the couch with her, or hugs me and tells me she loves me. My heart screams SLOW DOWN. “The days are long but the years are short” is a phrase that gets thrown around motherhood circles a lot, but it does ring true. Time is flying by. Please, slow down.

02/03/2022

In January I took a class to learn the Spinning Babies Method. I was super excited to take this class because it was this that saved me from a C-Section during my daughter’s birth. After a few hours of pushing, my nurse told me that her colleague had taken a spinning babies class and could try to help me if I was open to it. When this superstar nurse came in and introduced herself, big changes started happening as soon as she started working on me. My baby was coming down with her head tilted, so she was getting stuck on my pelvic bones. This nurse was able to put me in a couple different positions (with an epidural 🤯), and my baby straightened out and was born just a short while later.

This workshop helped me add the skills I need to be that person for another laboring mom, but it also helped me further understand my birth experience and how lucky I was to have the support I did.

02/01/2022

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