Tri City Birth Collective

05/25/2026

Say it! 😂

Perfect time! 😭🩷

05/15/2026

Birth Doula availability for due-dates in July & August! Medicaid accepted. Please share! 💚

05/11/2026

🤰Are you due to give birth soon? There is always still time to hire a Doula from Tri City Birth Collective! 💚
🟢2026 Remaining OPENINGS for Doula care services! 📣 - If your due date lands in July, August, October (or beyond!) please reach out using the link available in the comments, or at the top of our website!
🟢 Also - Don't forget that doula care a provided service through all Medicaid health plans!

04/26/2026

📣 Introducing our International Doula Month 2026 theme!🎉

Doulas: Nurturing the World, One Family at a Time.💜

IDM is one week away and this May, we're celebrating the ripple effect of doula care - the quiet, powerful support that begins with one family and grows into something so much bigger. Like a seed, like a ripple, like a lifetime of change.

Throughout the month, we'll explore how doulas nurture families through birth and the postpartum period and how that care strengthens entire communities, and ultimately the world.🌍

✨ Ready to join the celebration online? Our 2026 Social Media Toolkit is here: everything you need to share your story, connect with doulas worldwide, and show the world what this work truly means.

🔗 https://adobe.ly/4t6J6k1

04/22/2026

😞 Many "routine" care practices and/or policies have been, can be, and absolutely still are harmful. Do your research. Even continous fetal monitoring is an intervention that increases risk for normal healthy labor and births.

Have you heard of twilight birth? Did your grandparents, great grandparents, experience this?

Once upon a time, THIS was normal. Intially, preferred by some women because the ability to birth without pain is appealing. However, the reality wasn't actually birthing without pain, it was birthing without memory.

What was once celebrated as an advancement, shifted to a fight for autonomy in birth.

For those with positive experiences, they simply had no memory of the birth. For others, they woke with marks on their wrists from being restrained. Restraining garments like the one pictured were used to keep women from harming themselves and staff.

Twilight birth wasn't a calm pain free birth. Twilight birth was being restrained because women were blacked out while still moving, having no way to consciously find ways to cope with labor.

Twilight birth meant restraint. It meant no support people. It meant no personal comfort, support or autonomy. Forceps, episiotomies, etc., became necessary and impacted obstetrical practices long after twilight birth ended.

Morphine and scopolamine were used to induce a state of semiconscious, amnesic labor as late as the 1960s.

What does this mean for birthing people today? It's a reminder that it is not just okay but important to ask questions. It's okay to not accept policy or status quo. It is about asking for EVIDENCE-BASED care and practices.

Autonomy in birth matters.

04/22/2026

...That moment you see that your clients uploaded their photos to their Doula care profile. 🥹📸

04/01/2026

I've seen this coercion first hand. We do not need to be penetrated to get our babies out. It does cause harm and slows labor progress!

🚨🚨🚨 In a landmark case, an Australian woman is awareded $275,000 in negligence case after she was coerced into an exam during labor.

The woman's birth plan stated she only consented to exams as medically necessary. However, when she arrived at triage in labor, she was refused admission, care, and any pain management unless she consented to an exam.

Many people experience medical coercion and it's an uncomfortable and often traumatic experience. However, when one is IN labor, navigating one of the most vulnerable experiences of their lives, the lack of autonomy and control makes forced exams potentially life altering.

The supreme court of Victoria, ruled the forced exam to be battery, assault, and medical negligence. By not providing care unless a one allows an exam is coercion by withholding care.

This landmark case has the potential to change maternity care, something many can't wait to see happen.

Everyone deserves informed CONSENT, autonomy, and rights - being in labor does not negate the right to consent and autonomy.

Do you think this case will impact maternity care in AUS? Does it have the potential to impact maternity care globally?

Consent always matters, labor or not.

03/21/2026

💚 3 babies in under a week! WHEW! - A new record for TCBC! Beautiful births, all of them. 🥹
Congrats families!

03/18/2026

🤰Doula care availability for April & May due-dates! Many health plans accepted. 💚 Contact form in the comments! Please share!

03/17/2026

🤰🫄2 babies
✨️ born within 26 hours ⏳️
Totaling 62 hours 🕘 of labor support - spanning 4 days. Well done dear families. 💚 🥹