Attuned Doula Services

07/19/2025

This piece is called "Falling in Love during Postpartum".

Add this original painting to your collection.

LaurenJTurnerFineArt.com

07/17/2025

We love this, but if you don’t, we’ll totally go with you and hold the baby or stay home with them so you can enjoy some well-earned silence!

07/14/2025

When they reach up and hold your hand 🥰 What is your favorite thing your baby did while eating or falling asleep?

07/13/2025

Sometimes… I crave that first night in the postpartum room.

Not the pain.
Not the exhaustion.
Not the fear.

But that moment when the world felt like it paused.

The lights were low.
The room was quiet.
And it was just me and my baby, still brand new to the world, still wrapped in hospital blankets and smelling like heaven.

Everything hurt, but everything felt right.

I was sore, swollen, and stunned.
But also completely in awe.

There was a stillness in that room that I can’t explain.
Like time slowed down so I could memorize the shape of their face.
Like nothing else mattered but the rise and fall of their tiny chest beside me.

It wasn’t glamorous.
It wasn’t easy.
But it was sacred.

And sometimes, I find myself chasing that feeling again, The quiet magic of a brand new beginning.

©️Caty Sanders

07/10/2025

"Midwifery models of care are models of care in which the main care providers for women and newborns, starting from pre-pregnancy and continuing all the way through the postnatal period, are educated, licensed, regulated midwives who autonomously provide and coordinate respectful, high- quality care across their full scope of practice, using an approach that is aligned with the midwifery philosophy of care, which:

i. promotes a person-centred approach to care;
ii. values the woman–midwife relationship and partnership;
iii. optimizes physiological, biological, psychological, social and cultural processes; and iv. uses interventions only when indicated.
In midwifery models of care, midwives provide integrated care, addressing the needs of each individual woman and newborn, within functional and enabling health systems, equipped with necessary resources and streamlined consultation and referral processes. They collaborate within networks of care as part of interdisciplinary teams characterized by equality, trust and respect. This approach guarantees that every woman and newborn receives personalized care, tailored to their health needs.

Midwifery models of care are adaptable to all levels of care and contexts, including home-, community- and hospital-based settings; the public and private sectors and public–private partnerships; resource-constrained environments; and humanitarian and crisis settings. This ensures wide accessibility, equity and relevance across different cultural contexts for women, newborns, partners, families and communities."

Read More: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240098268

07/02/2025

These tears are none of your business 😭

06/24/2025

06/23/2025

Summertime Sundays are for swinging by to see and stocking up on local fruit to prep for the week. What meal prep tricks are you trying for Summer?

06/19/2025

Honoring Juneteenth 🖤❤️💚
June 19, 1865 — over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation — enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas were finally informed of their freedom.

Juneteenth is not just a day of celebration. It is a sacred remembering.
Of resistance. Of survival. Of community care and ancestral strength.

At Freedom River Midwifery, we hold space today to honor the generations of Black birthing people who labored — literally and figuratively — through injustice and into hope.

Freedom is not finished.
But we honor the freedom that was fought for, and the freedom we keep building — birth by birth, breath by breath.

✨ May we remember. May we rise. May we rejoice.

— Freedom River Midwifery
Rooted in Wisdom. Grown in Freedom.

06/19/2025

"Let us not assume for one moment that our work is done; the struggle for equal justice continues."- Fred David Gray