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Wichita, Kansas Birth Doula & Pregnancy Coach. RN, Safe Sleep & First Aid/CPR Instructor. 🔗 to schedule free meeting!

10/09/2025

Are you wanting your partner to be your main support person in labor?

Early labor is usually the longest stage—and so crucial to get it right.

This is the time to prepare your body for what lies ahead.

Here’s what I teach my clients to do: R.E.A.D.

Rest, Eat, Activity, Distract.

Your partner can play an active role by encouraging and reminding you of each of those steps!

While you focus on rest and nourishment, they’re the ones making sure the birth bags are packed and in the car.

And if early labor drags on for days, they can help by planning distractions like a date night or sending you to go get a massage.

This is still part of labor, but not the time to burn out.

✨ Send this to your “daddy doula” and follow for more partner tips for each stage of labor!

10/02/2025

Can you believe these were taken in the tiniest closet of a hospital room I ever did see? 😅

It’s so sweet to capture little baby details immediately after their arrival. It’s crazy how different they begin to look even after a couple weeks!

This particular session was done not even 24 hours after his birth!

👉🏻 for Fresh 48 inquiries, message me or visit my website!

09/23/2025

The support of little hands 🥹

I love this picture because it reminds me of love. The love of a mother for her daughter, and a daughter for her mother.

For some context — this mama chose to involve her four daughters in the birth of their newest baby sister.

At first it was loud in the room (kids being kids of course)

…But then something in the mood shifted.

The night got later, the labor got deeper, and mama had to go within herself to find her strength during transition

Her girls recognized it. And without cueing, they responded to it.

Even her children knew how to hold space for their mama 🤍

To sit in silence and just rest their hands on her arm as a reminder

“I am here.”

“You are safe.”

“You are loved.”

They didn’t rush. They waited. They watched.

And a few hours later their young faces lit up in absolute joy and awe after witnessing the power of natural birth 🥹🙌🏼

09/11/2025

Our first Daddy Doula Bootcamp was such a hit, we’re bringing it back for round two! 🙌

Join us!
📅 Saturday, October 4th
🕙 10 AM – 12 PM
📍 Physical Therapy by Phoenix – South

Learn hands-on tools to support birth, build confidence for labor, and discover movement techniques that help you show up feeling prepared and empowered. 🩵

Spots are limited, reserve yours by October 2nd! Click link here! 👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5JsSkytW_tP_c2wakgCcWhknq8iDEe7SgO_Ys11owbZ9slA/viewform

09/09/2025

I want to brag on this couple for a moment if you’ll let me⬇️

I think one of the biggest misconceptions about childbirth advocacy (my absolute passion) is that it has to look a certain way.

We hear “advocacy” and immediately think

“Oh no, I couldn’t do that. I’m a people pleaser.”

OR

“I hate confrontation”

But this couple really surprised me with their quiet strength and forced me to look at childbirth advocacy in a new light

👉🏻You see, advocacy isn’t just saying “no”

At the end of the day, advocacy is anything that gets you all the information you need to make an informed CHOICE about every option available to you

(PSST!!) This is why I encourage dads to take my childbirth advocacy e-course WITH their partners!

🙌🏼 Because dads are the ULTIMATE advocates in the birth room

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This couple made some TOUGH decisions.

And in that, I never once felt like I had to step in and be their advocate for them… because they were doing it all themselves!

In their own way.

With their own quiet strength.

Asking questions, finding new options, and choosing a path that they ultimately never thought they’d take…

“Quiet strength.”

That’s what I witnessed. And I am ever so proud 👏🏻🥹

09/04/2025

There are generally four pillars that we agree to be within the doula “scope of practice”

My two favorite “pillars” that I especially love using are emotional and advocacy support...and here's why!⬇️

When medical emergencies happen, your healthcare team will be focused on making sure you and baby stay alive. But who’s looking at you? Who’s making sure you stay calm, grounded, and understand what’s going on? As a doula I often narrate what’s happening in stressful situations in an effort to help avoid or minimize birth trauma for my clients

As a nurse, we are trained to be patient advocates. But it’s SO much easier for a doula to truly be your advocate when they aren’t legally liable or professionally responsible to the institution you’re giving birth in. Read just a few Google reviews and you’ll see that many of my clients repeatedly describe their birth experience as feeling “informed and empowered.”

Which just so happens to be my business’s mission 😉

Doulas aren’t “just a support person”

When you find the right person, the right support…it truly makes all the difference.

08/26/2025

When writing birth plans with my clients, I don’t let them put “delayed cord clamping” on there. Because how long is delayed???

In many hospitals, “delayed” might mean 30–60 seconds.
But if your goal is physiologic cord clamping—waiting until the cord is white, limp, and done pulsing—you’ve got to be more specific.

Here’s what matters:
✨ Define what you mean.
✨ Ask your provider how they usually handle it.
✨ Feel the cord before giving the go-ahead to clamp.
✨ Learn the difference between a white cord and Wharton’s jelly (they’re not the same!).

If you’re planning a birth that’s led by intuition and evidence, these small details matter. A lot.

🧠 Want more ways to ask smarter questions and build a birth plan that actually protects your goals? Grab my free guide—20 questions to ask your OB before labor 👉🏻

08/15/2025

“I asked AI to tell me about my doula business… and honestly? It got me.” 👀💬

Slide after slide, it reflected back what I already know deep in my bones:

🤍 That birth matters
🤍 That advocacy changes outcomes
🤍 That women deserve more than just clinical care—they deserve care that sees them
🤍 And that the way we prepare for birth shapes how we experience it

I love that my mission and passion is being so clearly communicated through my website and Google reviews from past clients that even a robot gets me and gets my heart for this work😉

08/05/2025

Still swoooooooningggg over this dreamy at-home Fresh 48 session 😩💕
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Jordan is one of those women who look good doing anything, and motherhood certainly looks good on her! 👏🏼

Visit gentleheartdoulacare.com to book your own Fresh 48 session!

08/04/2025

Spent Saturday morning doing what I love the most -- talking about birth! 😉

Had an amazing first Daddy Doula Bootcamp (fully booked!) helping these six couples prepare their bodies and partners for labor 👏🏻

We're getting ready to announce a date for the next event, so get your name on the waitlist to be the first to know!! https://forms.gle/Xs8sY8VmtgnMWDHx7

07/15/2025

Let me tell you about one of the coolest birth stories I’ve been apart of…

Earlier this year, I had an old friend reach out saying she was pregnant and asking if I would be her doula. After somewhere around 14 years of knowing Jordan, it was a unique and special treat to get to walk beside her in the final months of her pregnancy!

We spent a lot of time prepping her body and mind for labor…and in those final weeks, she made her own informed and empowered decision for an elective induction on baby girl’s due date.

Why? Baby girl had the miracle of sharing her due date with her late granddaddy’s birthday 🥹 The hope was that she would get to share a birthday too!

Pssst! Spoiler alert??? Not only did she get to share a birthDAY with him, she also was born on the exact time of his birthYEARrrrr

I mean, come on!!! 😭🩷

During pushing, Jordan’s OB was asking her about her tattoos—one of which was “1952” in honor of her dad’s birth year…

…It just so happened that this conversation was taking place at 7:48pm and mere pushes away from baby being born!

In healthcare, we document most things in military time. So, I turned to the clock and made this realization that baby might come right on 1952!

Doc was on board for trying, so we held off on pushing for a couple contractions…at 1951 Jordan got her next contraction, and at 1952 baby was born!!

It was serendipitous and such a blessing to get to honor her father in this way. My heart was absolutely SMILING on the way home. 😊 How. Stinking. Cool.

06/27/2025

In a hospital setting—where routine often outweighs personalization—this skill can completely shift your experience.

Without advocacy, you might hear:
💬 “I'm going to just...”
💬 “It's hospital policy”
💬 “We’ll go ahead and start…”

With advocacy, you can ask:
💬 “What are my options?”
💬 “Can we wait and reassess?”
💬 “What happens if we do nothing right now?”

✨ Advocacy isn’t about being confrontational. It’s about being clear, calm, and confident in your role as the decision-maker in the room.

And this skill doesn't always come easy!! (in fact, it rarely does)

So you want to learn how? I've condensed everything I know into 75 minutes so you get clear directions on how to advocate for your best hospital birth—step by step. 🙌🏻

📥 Grab the link in bio to learn more.

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