When Birth Doesn’t Go As Planned

In this post, I am going to talk about births that end with a healthy parent and child, where things did not go according to the birth plan, or had a different method of delivery than planned. In our society, we love to plan. We plan weddings, graduations, parties, entire futures, often down to minute …

A Doula for All kinds of Birth

Many people have asked me (and probably every other doula out there!) why they should hire a doula if they're having an epidural, a C-section, a premature baby, or a fully medicated birth. Today, I spent quite a bit of time exploring those questions for myself. My first birth was a surgical birth that resulted …