This Is What It Feels Like to Have Me as Your Doula
This is what it feels like to have me by your side: steady in the unknown, celebrating you, and holding space for your journey into parenthood.
The Hidden Impact of Birth Drugs on Your Baby’s First Moments
Research reveals how common birth drugs, including fentanyl and synthetic oxytocin, may affect a baby’s first hour; from feeding to bonding. Discover gentler alternatives and ways to make informed choices for a softer start.
“What if I poop in the water?”
Pooping during a water birth is normal, healthy, and safe for both mother and baby. Midwives manage it discreetly, so you can stay focused on birthing with confidence.
Exploring the Emotional Benefits of Water Birth
Water birth offers more than physical comfort - it creates emotional safety, privacy, and presence, allowing mothers to soften, surrender, and feel empowered.
Supporting the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) in Birth: Why Doula Care Matters
Highly Sensitive People (HSP) experience birth through a deeper lens. As a doula and HSP myself, I understand the need for calm environments, compassionate care, and true emotional safety.
Birth, Belonging & the Silent Weight of Assumptions
A personal story of navigating motherhood, bi-racial identity, and belonging across two continents.
Polyvagal Theory & Birth: Finding Safety in the Storm
Alone in labor, I felt like I was dying; until my doula arrived and everything changed. Explore how Polyvagal Theory explains the power of safety and support in birth.
From Burnout to Support: Why No Parent Should Do It Alone
A story about parenting, vulnerability, and how community can make all the difference; especially for foreign families.
What Is a Doula? Reflections from the Thresholds of Life and Birth
A doula is someone who walks beside you during life’s threshold moments; offering calm, steady presence through birth, loss, or transformation, so you don’t have to go through it alone.
You Were Born Too: Celebrating the Child Becoming a Sibling
When a new baby is born, a sibling is born too. This tender transition deserves to be celebrated, not overlooked.
Should Children Be Present at a Home Birth?
Many mothers dream of having their older children present at their home birth. But how can we prepare children for such a powerful experience?
You Are Still Open
This blog looks at the postpartum as a sacred time of openness, weaving ancestral wisdom, European rituals, and gentle science to support a mother’s return.
Birth as a Sacred Rite of Passage
Childbirth is a sacred transformation that calls for ceremony to honour the emotional, spiritual, and personal rebirth of the mother.
My Birth, My Rebirth
Birth is not just the arrival of a baby—it is the unraveling and remaking of a woman.
Held in Motion: A Mother’s Reconnection
Wrapped in the soft embrace of the rebozo, I found my way back to myself.
A Path of Blessing: Honouring Transitions with a Mother Blessing Ceremony
A Mother Blessing Ceremony is a heartfelt tradition that honours and uplifts women during life’s transitions, creating a sacred space for connection, reflection, and celebration
Finding Connection Through the Slow Rebozo: A Reflection as a Practitioner
An exploration of the profound connection and healing offered by the Slow Rebozo practice for mothers.
Honouring Life’s Choices: My Journey to the Closing the Bones Ceremony
Closing the Bones is a sacred ceremony that provides healing, closure, and renewal for mothers and women navigating life’s transitions, honouring where they’ve been and embracing what lies ahead.