A Caring Doula

09/16/2026

A provider audit checklist for BIPOC families. ✊🏾

Print this. Bring it to your next prenatal. Score them.

Did the provider:

✨ Introduce themselves by name and role
✨ Look you in the eye while you spoke
✨ Take notes when you described concerns
✨ Use your name (not "mom") during the visit
✨ Answer "what's your c-section rate" without defensiveness
✨ Welcome your birth plan, not push back on it
✨ Mention support resources for BIPOC families specifically
✨ Schedule enough time to actually answer questions

5 or more "yes" answers = good fit.
Under 4 = consider interviewing other providers.

You are not being picky. You are being deliberate. Your birth team is the team. 🫶🏾

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09/14/2026

Pumping pain? Low output? Read this. 🩺

If you're pumping and any of these are true, the fix might be one visit away:

✨ Your ni***es turn white in the fl**ge tunnel
✨ The fl**ge feels too small (pinching) or too big (pulling tissue too far)
✨ You feel pain during or after pumping
✨ Output dropped without a clear reason
✨ Your ni***es look different shapes between pumps and feeds

I'm trained in fl**ge fitting through Babies in Common (the Fl**ge FITS method). My 30-Minute Fl**ge Fitting & Pumping Support session ($75) covers a professional fl**ge size and shape assessment, pump settings, and milk storage. Baby does not need to be present.

Trauma-informed, culturally responsive, always free of judgment. Home visits in Indianapolis. Virtual visits anywhere.

DM "FEED" to book. 🤍

**geFITS

09/13/2026

Doulas Doing Business wrapped on Thursday. If you missed a session, you have five more days. 🎟️

The free 48-hour access windows on the live days are closing. But the All-Access Pass is still open through midnight ET September 16.

The pass keeps everything:

✨ Every session, replayable for at least a year
✨ Full transcripts
✨ Private podcast feed of all 18+ presentations
✨ Bonus trainings
✨ A one-year MeetYourDoula.com listing

The Long Game. Pricing. Packaging. Finding clients. Building a practice that lasts. This is the material I wish every doula had at year one.

Grab it with my affiliate link before Wednesday night. After the 16th it closes.

Here's my link: https://takieshasmith--doula.thrivecart.com/doulas-doing-business-free-registration-2026/

09/12/2026

Help the Dieudonne Foundation provide urgent diapers, baby wipes, prenatal care products for families in our community.Please choose any item or quantity you can give.Thank you for helping the families that are in immediate need.

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09/11/2026

The gentlest message I have for postpartum parents this week. 🤍

The seasonal shift is hitting. Days are shorter. School is back. Schedules tightened overnight.

If you're postpartum (which is the whole first year), your nervous system is going to feel this transition.

Permission:

✨ To say no to one social thing this week
✨ To order takeout twice in a row
✨ To leave the dishes
✨ To text a friend instead of calling
✨ To go to bed at 8:30 PM and not apologize

You are doing the work. The work counts even when it does not look productive.

Trauma-informed, culturally responsive, always free of judgment. If feeding has felt harder lately, you're not imagining it. DM "FEED" to book a visit. 💜

09/11/2026

Calling all doulas! You can still catch today's replays for the next 24 hours.

It's free to sign up here: https://bit.ly/4qI1KPm

09/10/2026

Doulas Doing Buisness

09/10/2026

Returning to work after summer with the baby? Here's a clean restart plan. 🩺

For families whose leave or summer-with-baby window ends this month:

✨ Today: baseline. How often are they feeding? How long? Which feeds are heaviest?
✨ Tomorrow: practice ONE pumping session at the time you'll need to pump at work
✨ This week: have someone else feed baby a bottle once a day
✨ Next week: dress rehearsal of the actual workday
✨ Week after: ease back in. Half day if possible. Wednesday return, not Monday.

A few things that always come up:

✨ Bottle refusal usually has a workaround. Don't panic.
✨ Output drops the first week back. Normal.
✨ Fl**ge fit is the most missed fix for low supply.

For a personalized plan, my 60-Minute Return-to-Work Lactation Visit ($129) covers your specific shift, employer conversation, federal rights, and supply strategy. Link in bio to book. 🤍

**geFITS

09/09/2026

Every year there is one free event I tell everyone about. This is it.

Doulas Doing Business. Three days, September 8 through 10, 18+ presentations, all free. It covers the part of this work most trainings skip: pricing, packaging, finding clients, and building a business that lasts. This year's theme is The Long Game.

Register free with my link: https://takieshasmith--doula.thrivecart.com/doulas-doing-business-free-registration-2026/

Come learn with me.

09/07/2026