Mariya the Doula ATX

07/08/2025

Are you ready to flow through the balance of divine control and sacred surrender?

Then you’re in the right place!

This is not a trend, it’s a collective reclamation. Women are strong, wise, and capable. We need support, not saving.

Follow along to learn, and let me know your home birth questions in the comments. 👇🏽

20/09/2024

In celebration of the new movie, Born at Home, I am teaming up with and to bring you the ultimate birth prep experience.

Between the 3 of us, we’ve given birth a dozen times. Some of our babies were born at home, and some in the hospital.

As birth workers, we’ve attended countless births and have been able to see how impactful the team and location can be to both Mother and baby’s outcomes.

We don’t want you to have to spend years becoming a birth expert to see what we’ve seen. So let’s all go on a movie date, and you can get the gist of it in less than 2 hours, surrounded by friends and moms from your community.

We will be at this exclusive showing Tuesday November 5th at 7pm, at Alamo Drafthouse!

DM .atx the word “movie” and I’ll send you the link to buy your ticket and enter the contest. Don’t forget to tag a friend who you want to see the movie with and share this post to your story! 🍿✨🤍

09/07/2024

Herb sitz bath, full body massage, and belly binding. 💆‍♀️🌿🍵 Our bodies know how to heal, but loving touch, heat, and herbs go a long way during postpartum recovery. I love being able to experience birth with a mama and then help her settle into postpartum. 🤍

25/06/2024

02/04/2024

Not birth related; but… Happy Anniversary to my rock. I would not be on this journey or doing the work that I do without your support and encouragement. Thank you for packing my snacks and setting my birth bag in my car every time I leave - even if it’s in the middle of the night. For making the bed and setting out my PJ’s and then listening to me decompress after each birth. I love you to the moon and back. Team Charlton forever. 💖

28/03/2024

23/03/2024

Here’s what I love about a good birth plan - I love seeing parents with the “we did it” glow all over their faces. Because, yes we had a preferred course… BUT we also had back up plans that were aligned with both parents goals and values. SO MANY things changed from the “preferred” plan during this particular experience… and at the end of the day we could look at the birth plan/ check list and say, “everything that was deeply important was ACHIEVED and RESPECTED”.

18/03/2024

What’s the best gift to give a new mama? I love giving my clients gifts customized to their individual interests and needs. I’m always looking for new ideas. Drop some suggestions in the comments! 🙏🏽💖😊

16/03/2024

I can promise you that no one ever makes their birth plan with the hopes of winning a trophy. To bring it up at all is PATRONIZING and DISCOURAGING. Someone whose choosing to labor without medication has taken 9 months or longer to make that decision based on so many factors that go far beyond “glory”.

If you’re watching someone battle through contractions the only thing you should say is; good job, you can do this, your body knows what to do, you will meet your baby soon, you are so strong, thank you for working so hard for your family.

If you can’t say any of those things - don’t say anything at all.

It’s not your job to rescue her from labor. She doesn’t need to be saved, she needs to feel safe. And if it truly is too much - she WILL make that call. There’s no force on earth that could stop a woman who KNOWS she’s ready for an epidural. Her birth team is not “forcing” her to have an unmedicated birth in hopes of bragging rights.

It’s time to start trusting our daughters, sisters, best friends, wives, clients and patients when we witness them in this sacred rite of passage. She is stronger than either of you ever realized. Your fear has no place in her birth space. Leave it at the door, or don’t enter the room.