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Just a few thoughts on what on what this mama who wants to help everyone she can while she deals with her own mess. You are still qualified to speak life and help a sista out even when things aren’t looking so great in your own life!
My Role: Doula
it’s important as a doula to be organized and punctual, of course life happens but communication is such a big part of this whole thing. Your client is expecting you to have your side of things in order so that when the time comes (that big moment that you've all been waiting for), you can be at her side when she calls. She needs to know she can count on you.
The business aspect can be a challenge, but honestly, it doesn't have to be. When money is brought up in any relationship we throw out the authenticity of that relationship. We somehow think the two cannot exist. If your not willing to do it for free or give me a discount or how I like to say "the homie hook-up," then you must not care, and you don't want to help. That could not be further from the truth, and I want both client and doula to know this!
Year 2020 Resolute!
I personally have never been great at sticking to my New Year resolutions. Honestly, I don’t take them all that seriously like others do ( I try not to meet myself up), but I still make them, I try, and I must say, I do believe they have a purpose, even if you don’t keep them! In the past, I’ve made resolutions and procrastinated, forgotten them - oops! And or no longer felt they were important enough to keep because my priorities changed. People will argue: Why make resolutions if you're not going to stick with them. My thing is, why not? There is no penalty if I don’t keep it lol. I may not have met my goal of date nights every week, meal preps or losing 25 lbs but you know what, it allowed to think about the things that I wanted to change, and it allowed me to get excited about what a healthy, happy, thriving version of myself could look like. I think the New year is about resetting, putting things into perspective, and when you can say something you want to
improve on, try for the first time, whatever you want to heal from. It is a powerful thing to speak it out loud or write it down on a piece of paper or in a blog post. A
FOMO from a Cesarean Birth Mama
I am a c-section mama. I became a c-section mama because before I started having kids, I had fibroids. Five to be exact with the biggest one the size of a baseball. Still till this day I have major FOMO (fear of missing out) about the things I did NOT get to experience in labor. Let me explain.
Women (of Color) - How to Advocate for Yourself & your Birth.
Unless you’re living under a rock you are probable aware that the U.S Maternal Mortality rate has more than doubled over the last few decades and is continuing to rise.
Recent articles, like this one on “Why Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis” from the New York Times has brought this topic into the spotlight. The focus on this very statistic personally speaks to me being a women of color (FYI: WOC are 3-4 times more likely to die in child birth).
Hearing the numbers behind these horrific statistics one might think to themselves. What is wrong with my body that it may fail me when it comes time for me to give birth? What is it about my body that can’t birth and live?
The answer?
How to set boundaries for you & baby around the holidays.
When I had both of my kids, we were still a long ways out from the holidays, nonetheless I remember those nerve wrecking moments of going around tons of friends and family for the first time with my newborn. At the time (especially with my first) I wasn't sure exactly how to set boundaries and make my needs known to family. I was very protective and territorial instinctively with my baby but I didn't want to seem "mean" by projecting my do's and dont's to every person I came in contact with. It took me a quick second with a few encounters when I knew i had to speak up and say something!