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Supporting families with prenatal classes and Doula services, newborn care, breastfeeding, pediatric sleep, nursery design, spinning babies and craniosacral treatments.

09/05/2026

Two years ago, she hoped to have her first baby at the birthing centre. For medical reasons, those plans changed. She was transferred to hospital and, although she had a vaginal birth, it came with many more interventions than she had hoped for.

Somewhere along the way, she also became my friend.

So when she became pregnant with baby number two and asked me to be by her side again, I was overjoyed. With the support of our midwife, we planned to try for the birthing centre again.

Her due date came and went. Then 41 weeks came and went.

Labour was slow to start, and the midwife and I were waiting for signs that it was time to meet her at the birth centre.

Then I got the text: “My water broke.”

I called immediately. Her husband answered.

“She’s pushing. I can see the head.”

Well then. 😂

I called the midwife and we both rushed to their house. The birth centre was officially off the table. This baby had her own plans.

So technically, she DID get her out-of-hospital birth this time… just not where we expected.

We made do with towels, puppy pads and whatever we could grab.

There’s a moment in this video where you’ll see me look at the midwife and she gives me a little nod. We had both noticed meconium-stained fluid. EMS was called and waited outside, just in case we needed extra hands once baby arrived.

No panic. Just a change in plans.

My phone unfortunately died and missed some of the excitement, including the moment I almost received what birth workers call an “amniotic shower”… in my nice WHITE T-shirt. 😂

And then, right there at home, she birthed her beautiful baby girl.

Not long afterwards, she was tucked into her own bed, cuddling her baby and ordering dinner.

Two years ago, birth took her somewhere she hadn’t planned to go.

This time, birth ignored the plan again… but in a completely different way.

There is something so special about being invited back into someone’s birth space, knowing their first story and understanding just how much this next one means.

Sometimes the birth you planned isn’t the birth you get.

Sometimes it’s even wilder. 🤍
Maddie Amyotte Shauna Budden

08/31/2026

Annual first day of school vid. Time, please slow down.

08/31/2026

On the drive to their first day of school this morning, one of my boys asked me:

“Mom, what makes someone cool and popular?”

And I thought, well… here it is. One of those little moments where you get the chance to sneak some wisdom into the minds of the boys you’re raising into men.

I told them that the coolest thing they could ever be is unapologetically themselves.

Be genuine about who you are. Know what you believe in. Be kind, especially when kindness isn’t the popular choice.

Then we started talking about leadership.

“Well Mom, how do you become a leader?”

I told them that leaders dare to be different.

A leader isn’t necessarily the loudest person in the room or the person everyone knows. Sometimes a leader is simply the one person willing to stand apart from everyone else.

When everyone laughs at something that isn’t funny, be the one who doesn’t.

When someone is being treated badly and everyone else stays quiet, be the one who says something.

When everyone is following along just because everyone else is doing it, have enough confidence in yourself to choose differently.

Be weird.

Ask the uncomfortable questions.

Say the thing everyone else is afraid to say.

Hold your friends accountable, and surround yourself with people who will hold you accountable too.

Never shrink yourself just to fit into a room.

Popularity will come and go. Fitting in will always be tempting. But character is something you carry with you long after school is over.

So on their first day, I didn’t tell my boys to go be cool.

I told them to go be kind. Be brave. Be weird. Be genuine. Be the kid who stands up instead of blending in.

Because I’m not raising boys who need everyone to like them.

I’m raising boys who I hope will grow into men they like and respect when they look in the mirror.

And if that happens to make them “cool” along the way, even better.

08/28/2026

Some birth stories are unique because of how a baby enters the world. Others because of the people who find their way back to you.

Years ago, I stood beside this dad as his doula while he welcomed his son. This time, he invited me into a new chapter: a new relationship, a blended family and another baby on the way.

Being invited back into someone’s life for another birth is something I will never take for granted.

They planned to birth at Luna Dea with midwives, waiting for labour to begin naturally. Then an NST close to her due date changed everything.

Preeclampsia.

Suddenly, their low-intervention birth-centre plan became an induction in hospital.

Then came the waiting, never quite knowing when things would begin.

So naturally, being the seasoned doula that I am, I drove two hours down the highway to take my kids fishing. Inductions can take days… or apparently just long enough for your doula to get one night of fishing in.

The call came the next day. Time to drive home.

Things moved slowly until her water broke. Then everything changed.

She received an epidural and initially got much-needed relief, but as labour intensified, that relief disappeared. Very quickly, she went from around 3 cm to fully dilated and needing to push.

It happened so fast.

Between the intensity, pain and adrenaline, she doesn’t remember much of it.

And I think we need to talk about that more.

Not every woman remembers her birth like a movie.

Sometimes it comes back in flashes. A voice. A hand. Pressure. Someone saying your baby is almost here.

And then suddenly, your baby is in your arms.

Sometimes the people beside you become the keepers of the pieces you can’t remember.

Her partner remembers. Her midwives remember. I remember.

And when she’s ready, we can give those pieces back to her.

It wasn’t the birth they planned, but it was still the beginning of their baby’s story.

And years later, I had the privilege of standing beside this dad again as his family grew.

Being invited back will never stop feeling sacred.

08/18/2026

No one really talks about this part of birth work.

After a recent birth, I found myself holding a brand new baby while his mom was taken to the hospital for further assessment after we had stabilized her.

And eventually, everything became quiet.

We talk so much about how beautiful birth is. How empowering it can be. How incredible it is to witness women discover a strength they didn’t know they had.

And all of that is true.

But being a support person and a care provider can also carry a weight that is difficult to explain.

In the moment, there isn’t room for fear. You assess. You communicate. You do what you’ve been trained to do. Your hands move and your brain works through the next step and then the next one.

And then the dust settles.

Everyone is safe. The room is quiet. The adrenaline starts to leave your body.

And sometimes, while I’m scrubbing blood from surfaces, gathering wrappers from IV lines and putting the room back together, I finally let myself have the private cry I couldn’t have when someone needed me.

Not because something went wrong.

Because I know how differently it could have gone.

Because sometimes the weight of thank God that went the way it did doesn’t hit you until afterward.

I love birth work. I believe deeply in women, in birth, and in giving families safe and supported choices in how and where they give birth.

But loving this work doesn’t mean it is always light.

Sometimes it means standing steady in the chaos, holding everything together until everyone is safe…

and then quietly feeling the weight of it when no one is watching.

This is part of birth work, too.

08/17/2026

She’s not wrong lol

08/11/2026

I’ve been dying to make this video for quite some time. I hope birth workers around the world get a laugh out of this.

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