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.
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.
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.
My Birth, My Rebirth
Birth is not just the arrival of a baby—it is the unraveling and remaking of a woman.