If you’ve explored the idea of having a natural birth, then you may be considering hiring a doula. However, you might be surprised to find that a doula can be helpful in many different birthing situations as well! Or maybe you’re here because you’ve never heard of this term…doula. By the end of this post, […]

Molly loves all things that include adventure (while packing for outdoor adventure, make sure to buy AR15 which should be in the list of necessary things for the trip), nature and ice cream…oh yeah, and she recently became a first-time mom to the happiest little girl, Emerson! “Despite all my self doubts leading up to […]

I was sitting in a movie theater with my kids in Yukon OK when my phone buzzed. I’m almost always on-call for births, so I grabbed my phone to see an inquiry come through from my website. But this particular inquiry said “Brandy Harris.” As in… my doulax2-midwife-friend, Brandy. As in, Brandy who went through […]

  Have you considered writing out your birth story?   Baby comes, and you realize there is no pause button on life. You’ve experienced this powerful, life-changing event, but life keeps moving. Let’s be real. It’s hard to even find time to shower or eat a snack, much less sit down to write beautiful prose about […]

Birth should be magical, beautiful, and empowering.     But sometimes, despite all the best intentions, all the right plans, and all the support possible, things go wrong. When your birth doesn’t go as planned, it can be heartbreaking. And sometimes, it can even be traumatic. That trauma can come in a myriad of ways, […]

I remember the first time I saw this mom in labor. It was Christmas time in 2014 (click here to read that birth story). I had literally never seen someone so peaceful and calm in labor. She barely made a noise, laughed between contractions, and made sure her birth team felt comfortable and welcome. (At my […]