How a Doula Can Ease Anxiety During Childbirth

How a Doula Can Ease Anxiety During Childbirth

Childbirth is a life-changing event, one that can be filled with anticipation, excitement, and, for some, significant anxiety or fear. Whether it’s the unknown aspects of labour, concerns about pain, or the experience of past trauma, the emotional and mental hurdles leading up to and during birth can be overwhelming. This is where a birth […]

My son’s birth

My son’s birth

Today is my son’s 10th birthday. It feels surreal that ten years has passed so quickly. It seems like just yesterday we welcomed him. I have decided to share his birth story to honour this day. It was 2009 and I was due on July 9th. It was hot, I was big (baby was estimated […]

Dear Motherless Mom-to-be, I SEE YOU. Love, a Birth and Postpartum Doula

Dear Motherless Mom-to-be, I SEE YOU. Love, a Birth and Postpartum Doula

At the age of 26 I was in a committed relationship, living abroad with a stable career and dreaming about someday soon becoming a mother. Then I lost my own mother to cancer. All of a sudden the thought of navigating the unchartered territory of parenting seemed much less appealing. Like many other women, my […]