Beyond Bump Mamas

07/28/2025

Your baby isn’t manipulating you. They’re communicating.

Responding with love builds trust, safety, and lifelong attachment. You’re not spoiling them by holding, feeding, or comforting them when they cry. You’re showing them that the world is safe and that you are their safe place.

💛 Save this reminder.
Follow for more nervous system-informed baby care and postpartum support.

07/14/2025

Someone asked me,
“What’s one thing you wish all expecting parents knew?”

Here it is:

🗣️ Don’t wait until you’re in survival mode to plan for postpartum.
The newborn stage is beautiful and hard. You’re healing, learning to feed your baby, adjusting to new roles, and running on broken sleep. It’s a lot.

Here’s what I wish every parent did before baby arrives:
📝 Set up a simple meal train
🛏️ Block off time to rest, even if it’s just 30 minutes a day
🧼 Ask for help with chores (yes, make a list for visitors!)
🍼 Learn about feeding and what’s “normal” newborn behavior
🧠 Choose one or two people you trust for emotional support
💛 Hire or line up postpartum help if you’re able, whether that’s a doula, therapist, family member, or friend

You deserve to feel supported, prepared, and less alone in this season.
It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay not to love every minute.
You are enough just as you are.

If you want help planning your postpartum, I’ve got you.
DM me or check out Beyondbumpmamas.com for resources.

06/21/2025

Newborns don’t need all the fancy gadgets. YOU are their greatest comfort.

In the first few weeks of life, your baby’s needs are beautifully simple:
🤱 Skin-to-skin contact
🍼 Responsive feeding (breast or bottle)
💤 Warmth and rest
❤️ Your loving presence

As a newborn care specialist and postpartum doula, I help new parents feel confident in supporting their baby’s natural rhythms, without the overwhelm.

You don’t need to buy more to be enough.
You are enough.
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📍Based in Phoenix, AZ | In-home + virtual support available

06/19/2025

Every family’s journey is unique. Sometimes, things unfold differently than planned. This sweet family transitioned from a homebirth to a hospital c-section, and I was honored to support them in their recovery and bonding once they returned home.

From Ayurvedic meals and massage to babywearing support and emotional spaceholding, this is what postpartum care can look like.

✨ You don’t have to do it alone. Reach out if you’re curious about how I can support you or someone you love in the 4th trimester.

06/17/2025

Sometimes the deepest work I do isn’t with my hands. It’s with my presence.

The postpartum season isn’t just a time of recovery… it’s a time of becoming. Of unraveling, reconnecting, re-learning who you are. All while holding life in your arms.

This is what I witness again and again as a postpartum doula and newborn care specialist:
✨ A mother tuning in to her own rhythm
✨ A baby learning the sound of their world
✨ A family learning the depths of love in the dark at 3 a.m.

It’s sacred, messy, powerful. And I’m endlessly honored to be invited into that space.

If you’re navigating the fourth trimester (or preparing for it), I’m here to walk beside you each step of the way.

You don’t have to do it all alone.

📍Phoenix, AZ + virtual support available

06/17/2025

Placenta encapsulation is a time-honored practice that may support postpartum recovery by promoting energy, emotional balance, and milk production.

Each placenta I work with is prepared safely, respectfully, and in alignment with both evidence-based standards and traditional wisdom.

Whether you’ve just given birth or are planning ahead, this is one beautiful way to nourish your healing body from within. 💛

Serving families in the Phoenix, AZ area.
DM to learn more or book your encapsulation.

06/15/2025

Happy Father’s Day!
To the partners who step in without being asked.
Who rock the baby at 2 a.m., bring the water bottle, and learn the swaddle with steady hands.
Who listen to the tenderness, the tears, the fears and respond with patience instead of trying to fix what is already in the process of healing.

Your presence is felt, your care is sacred, and your support shapes your early parenthood.
Today, we honor you. And every day, we see you.

06/12/2025

Real words from a sweet family I supported postpartum after a cesarean birth.

It’s always an honor to walk alongside new parents during such a tender time. The little things such as rest and nourishment really do make a difference.

✨Curious what postpartum support could look like for you? Let’s chat.
Dm me or visit my website (linked in bio)

06/10/2025

06/09/2025

Postpartum care isn’t new, it’s ancient.
Across cultures and generations, the early weeks after birth have been treated as sacred. A time for rest, healing, nourishment, and connection.

Postpartum support should not be some luxury held for only the families who can afford it. It should be a human right, something we can feel supported through.

Let’s continue to build our villages and shift the expectations. All of you mamas deserve this level of care 💛

06/02/2025

As I stand out in the stillness of the cool mountain air, I’m reminded how powerful it can be to pause. To allow healing to be slow, steady, and restful.

Sometimes we feel the need to be the best, most healed version of ourselves right away. In the process, forgetting about how important the actual journey of healing can be. Each step is wonderful gift of grace, transformation and beauty.

So whether you’re on your postpartum journey or a healing journey of your own, don’t forget to slow it down and appreciate the gradual unfolding of who you’re becoming.

05/31/2025

Post-retreat breakfast! After such a transformational week, I am slowly coming back into my routine and building new habits. I’m leaning into warmth and nurturing myself—exactly what I recommend for my postpartum mamas.

Prior to this retreat I had the unfortunate habit of not eating breakfast. Maybe an occasional snack-on-the-go here and there, but nothing substantial. This was definitely affecting my whole day!

This is a new goal I’m setting for myself, to eat enough and to start my day with nourishing foods.

Whether you’re in your sacred (postpartum) window or even just re-centering yourself, meals like this are perfect for nurturing your nervous system.

Featured meal:
💐Whole grain & seed toast with avocado and homemade strawberry jam with ghee
💐Scrambled eggs lightly seasoned
💐Bone broth cacao: a daily retreat drink! taught us about how nutritious and yummy it is. Such a great way to start the day.

Treat yourself with nourishment, mamas! 💛