A Sovereign Birth

08/26/2025

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✨ Big News! ✨
The **Lactation Lounge** is popping up in YOUR community! 🌸💜

A safe, welcoming space for parents to:
🪑 Feed, pump, or chestfeed in comfort
💧 Hydrate & recharge (because parents need care too!)
🤝 Connect with other mamas & parents on the journey

📍 Upcoming Pop-Ups:
📅 **Tue 8/26** – *EO Farmer’s Market*, City Hall Plaza | 1–7PM

🌸 FREE & open to parents, expectant parents, and support persons.
No registration — just stop by and take the break you deserve!

Let’s celebrate with love, comfort, and community 💜

08/25/2025

Happy

This week highlights the unique challenges Black families face around infant feeding. From cultural barriers to access gaps, we’re raising awareness and honoring the community leaders building stronger support systems.

This year’s theme is "Boots on the Ground", honoring the frontline champions, parents, peer counselors, doulas, lactation professionals, and community leaders who are Boots on the Ground every day, helping to make breastfeeding support more accessible.

💜 Stay tuned this week as we share tips every Black mom should know about breastfeeding and highlight resources for our moms and advocates!

08/25/2025

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08/22/2025

My virtual doula services will be reduced for the months of September October and November! Message me for a free 15 minute consultation! 😊

08/17/2025

08/17/2025

"African American Father Babywearing" is now available as a art print.

https://laurenjturnerfineart.com/product/african-american-father-babywearing/

07/23/2024

⭐ Today’s Daily Essentials Tip: The calf stretch ⭐

Stretching your calves can help lengthen your hamstrings, making your butt and sacrum muscles more mobile. Having more mobile sacrum and butt muscles makes it easier for your pelvis to open during labor.

To stretch your calves:
➡️ Step the ball of your foot onto a rolled towel, yoga mat or half foam “tube.”
➡️ Make sure your heel is grounded on the floor.
➡️ Stand straight but with a slight bend in the knee.
➡️ Straighten and bend the knee slightly, but not much.
➡️ Change to do the other foot.
➡️ Then do both at once. 5-10 times per set. Daily!

Learn more about the calf stretch and the other stretches in our Daily Essentials in our daily essentials video: https://www.spinningbabies.com/product/daily-essentials-video-digital-download/

07/23/2024

10/25/2023

Still here doing doula things. 💜