Your words matter.
If you’ve got something to say and would like to contribute to The Doula’s Kitchen Blog, then I’d really love to hear from you. Sharing information, building communities and raising our voices to be heard is a very beautiful and necessary thing.
Birth Bug-Bear; Birth IS you. (It doesn’t happen TO you.)
Big birth bug-bear.
“So, because my body has never birthed a baby before, I’m just going to let the journey unfold and allow for events to happen as they will.” *said I.
(Oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no...)
With Woman; International Day of the Midwife (IDM).
With Woman.
These two women, from Lincoln County Hospital, supported my first step into motherhood in 2008.
I am about 4 hours post emergency abdominal birth and the midwife on the right sat by my bedside reading a book during those first hours; gently passing me my baby for feeding and copious amounts of skin to skin moments.
Pregnancy in a Pandemic
Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting in a Pandemic.
A wonderful chat with Sarah from @finallyamummy about pregnancy, birth and parenthood in a pandemic.
‘Village’ support, doulas, hypnobirthing and advocating for yourself.