05/13/2026
As much as we doulas can plan, sometimes we can’t attend every birth. It’s a heavy weight to carry when you can’t make it to a birth as the primary doula🥺 My values of respect, family-centered care, and community align to ensure that backup doula support is available when I cannot attend a birth. So this past week, when three clients were laboring within 12 hours of each other 😰, and two births were 15 minutes apart🫣, I am incredibly grateful for our community doulas who collaborate with me and my clients to offer continuous labor support and can be there when I am at another birth 🫶 Shout out to Jes and Teresa who held my clients hand and guided them through thier birth journey when I was with another family. From guilt to gratitude, to my clients who navigated this change and welcomed thier little ones into the world with incredible strength, bravery, courage and a whole lot of love. Always inspired!
As you reflect on creating birth preferences, what tools do you have in place to navigate and adapt to the unknown in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum?
Took some pics to share, being in and out of hospitals during this time, check out my armband collection 😂