Alexandria Bright: Birth & Postpartum Doula

10/02/2022

✨It's officially been one week since our first ✨Embodied Birth Movement✨ workshop.

It was an absolute joy and pleasure to bring this vision to life and I can't wait to see how the offering continues to bloom.🌻

The energy our attendees brought was so beautiful and it was so rewarding to weave our passions together to create this space for exploration and connection.

Having the opportunity to witness one another in our unique expression, to clear out old stories together and call in our vision for our birth was so empowering (and I'm not even pregnant 😅).

Great big thank you to ✨✨ for use of their lovely space.

And biggest deepest, gratitude to my co-creator ✨✨ (you are brilliant and I'm so proud of us 💓).

Enormous shout out and thank you to my friend and HWB Pittsburgh Chapter Coordinator, ✨✨ for dreaming up the herbal goodie bag offerings with me and donating hand-crafted, heavenly soaking salts and belly balm to our attendees.

We can't wait to offer this again soon and we do have plans for a ✨postpartum workshop✨ as well so, stay tuned.✨

09/23/2022

4 Reasons to Move Your Pregnant Body:

🌻Embodied Awareness - Getting out of your head and into your body through expressive movement allows you to explore your changing body in new ways while staying in the present moment.

🌻Parent-baby Connection - Tune into your body and enhance your connection with your baby as you listen to and feel their movements.

🌻Deepen Trust - Encourage trust in your body and baby to take this birthing journey.

🌻 Community Connection - Explore movement with other expectant parents, share experiences & create community together.

🌻Want a Guided Experience?

Our Embodied Birth Movement workshop is happening this Sunday 9.25.22 2pm - 4pm at The Midwife Center for Birth & Women's Health

Tickets for sale at Eventbrite link in comments.👇

09/13/2022

So excited to announce that our Embodied Birth Movement workshop will be held !

🌻 Embodied Birth Movement 🌻

🌻This movement workshop is for all pregnant people in any stage. No previous dance or movement experience is required.🌻

🌻As your facilitators, and I will hold a safe space to connect with the body in an expressive way. You will have an opportunity to creatively form and strengthen connection with self and baby while moving with other parents building a supportive and like-minded community.🌻

🌻You are not alone in your (new) role.🌻

🌻Tea, snacks and supportive resources will be provided.🌻

✨Get your tickets at the Eventbrite 🔗 in my bio!

09/03/2022

Tickets are now on sale for our upcoming event...

🌻 Embodied Birth Movement 🌻

🌻This movement workshop is for all pregnant people in any stage. No previous dance or movement experience is required.🌻

🌻As your facilitators, and I will hold a safe space to connect with the body in an expressive way. You will have an opportunity to creatively form and strengthen connection with self and baby while moving with other parents building a supportive and like-minded community.🌻

🌻You are not alone in your (new) role.🌻

🌻Tea, snacks and supportive resources will be provided.🌻

✨Get your tickets at the Eventbrite 🔗 in my bio!

08/25/2022

🌻Hello Beautiful People🌻

My dear friend and I are putting together a lovely perinatal movement workshop and would love for you to join us!

🌻Movement For Perinatal Mental Health🌻

🌻SAVE THE DATE🌻

🌻9.25.2022🌻

🌻This workshop is for all pregnant people in any stage of pregnancy.

🌻To connect with your growing baby through intuitive movement and build community with other parents.

🌻More details to come!🌻

We are putting a lot of love into creating this space for exploration and expression, we hope you'll join us!

01/18/2022

❄️Snow day with the fam means first snow ball fights and hot cocoa.❄️

03/28/2021

✨ Full Moon in Libra Feels ✨

Here's to a full, fluffy mane,
Groovin to a good jam,
And not letting the blocks covering my floor (not pictured) get me down.

Let's dance more.
xo

*I do not own the rights to this juicy tune:
Sans cesse, mon chéri
By Domenique Dumont

01/10/2021

Pittsburgh local birthworker, Jeaonna Hodges, has launched her new business and the website is up! It's just lovely and I'm so excited for what they will be offering the community. I'm loving the holistic approach, coupling doula support with reiki and massage therapy and I know their clients are just going to feel so nourished and held.

She is actively fundraising now so that they can offer free birthwork options to those in need, specifically BIPOC and other marginalized communities. They also have sliding scale options.

If able, please donate, there is a Bonfire t-shirt fundraiser as well as a direct way to donate through Funraise.

Please share widely! ✨

https://empressgigidoula.wixsite.com/divingeriendijn

https://funraise.org/give/Divin-Geri-Endijen/d082caef-2c91-4665-9e16-1fd813f0dfd8

https://www.bonfire.com/protect-your-birth-rights/
https://www.bonfire.com/protect-birth-rights/

 and family. Divin Geri Endijèn is committed to providing support, guidance and personalized services in order to make the birthing experience as positive as possible. This isn’t just our profession, but our true passion - so you can rest assured that you’ll be in the best of hands. We offer a...

12/01/2020

Good morning and happy December!
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I'm just popping on to share that I'll be off these socials for this month. Need some deeper reflection and refocusing time and.... it's my birthday month! 🤗
Feels right.
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If you need to get a hold of me for work please reach out to me at: brightdoula@gmail.com.
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If you've got my digits, call or text, I'd love to hear from you my friends.
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Sending all the LoVe and wishing you all the very best of this last month of 2020.
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11/26/2020

//T R A N S BIRTHWORKER S P O T L I G H T//
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In honor of I wanted to highlight the work of some incredible we have here in the area.
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Meet Natalia ! They are and a . Scroll through to learn more about Natalia.
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11/22/2020

//T R A N S BIRTHWORKER S P O T L I G H T//
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In honor of I wanted to highlight the work of some incredible we have here in the area.
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Meet my friend, Ru .e . They have the most calming and loving presence and provide massage out of The Midwife Center. Swipe through to read some more about Ru.
Email them to book: r.emmonsapt@gmail.com
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11/20/2020

//T R A N S BIRTHWORKER S P O T LIGHT//
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In honor of I wanted to highlight the work of some incredible we have here in the area.
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First up, is Michele James-Parham! They have been serving birthing people & beyond in every way you can imagine.
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Scroll through the slides to learn more about Michele, their work and some words they have openly shared with us about supporting the and how to be a better .
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For more details of the services they offer, visit their page or website: www.midwitchery.net.
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10/25/2020

A crucial guide.
Please share widely with your friends, your coworkers, your clients and care providers!

https://www.nytimes.com/article/black-mothers-birth.html

How racism can impact your pre- and postnatal care — and advice for speaking to your Ob-Gyn about it.

10/24/2020

//TOUCH IS OUR FIRST LANGUAGE//
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We attune to one another through physical touch.
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Our energies connect, our breathing synchronizes and our nervous systems co-regulate.
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Early this morning as Luna changed positions, she reached both her arms up and grabbed the sides of my face with her hands. She stretched and smiled as she gently traced my face with her little fingers before nuzzling herself back to sleep against my chest. With this, I was reminded of touch as our first language.
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Often those first flutters of movement you feel from inside your womb are the first tangible contact with your babe. I remember I would lay down and get really still then push, poke and rub my stomach waiting for a response from the little one inside me.
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It was magic knowing she was always there, I began to learn her likes and dislikes based on her movements. Reflecting back on that time now, the foundation of love and connection we built through touch continues to ground our bond together as she explores the world in her courageous toddler body.
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Touch is our first language. It's how we communicate our presence from inside the womb. Holding our little ones close is how we let them know they are not suddenly alone once they are born. It's how your partner comforts you in the depths of labor when they can no longer reach you with words.
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Touch. Contact. Presence.

10/19/2020

Please sign and share this petition to urge AHN to lift restrictions on doula support. They have declined to allow doulas to support births as well as End of Life care. Other hospital systems have been safely allowing doulas as necessary support in the birth space.

http://chng.it/dcF6RDX487

Lift Restrictions On Doulas At Allegheny Health Network

10/16/2020

This month is and today we honor and remember those little babes that had to leave us so soon.

All loss outcomes fit here. All loss outcomes are honored here. This includes , and . Not one pregnancy, no matter the outcome goes forgotten and without impact. So many of those who experience a loss of this kind, grieve alone and are expected to continue on with life as usual while their mind, body and soul are aching.

As part of my doula services, I (with you) can create a ceremony for you to honor your miscarriage, abortion or stillbirth/infant loss. My intention is to honor your baby's life (however long) and recognize your rite of passage into parenthood. This ceremony is meant to hold space to honor, grieve and acknowledge the little ones who couldn't stay.

06/13/2020

Purchase a shirt this week to support Black Breastfeeding Orgs!! Pittsburgh's Black Breastfeeding Circle is on the list! 🙌

You can spilt the donation between all five organizations or throw it all at one of your choosing.