Birdsong Birth & Postpartum Support

Birdsong Birth & Postpartum Support ✨A Postpartum centric space for parents, doulas and families✨ We are Erica and Laura. We are parents helping parents.

We met and fell in friend love in 2013 and have been swapping trials, tribulations, available joy™ and rude jokes ever since. We are both postpartum-centric full spectrum doulas caring for people across the parenthood threshold. Erica is a Southern Gal with Mississippi hospitality that will make your Grandma swoon and Laura is a friendly west coast Canadian who still proudly insists on using the metric system. Ours is a blend of total reverence for the miraculous nature of birth and newborn-hood and total irreverence for the need to have it look like one never ending commercial of perfection. We like to laugh and cry in equal measure and hope to bring a warmth and lightness, positivity and deep compassion to each family we work with.

07/11/2026

1. Tell a new parent to “sleep when the baby sleeps” without helping build the actual conditions for rest: held baby time, a snack within reach, a protected door, and someone tending the invisible labor.
2. Center the baby so fully that the healing body, shifting hormones, tender mind, and nervous system of the parent disappear from the room.
3. Leave a shift without water filled, food nearby, and at least one softness ritual in place: fluffed pillows, fresh tea, warmed leftovers, or the path to the shower made easier.
4. Bring shame into the room around feeding, soothing, survival, or the many sacred ways families make it through the first weeks.
5. Treat postpartum like it expires at 6 weeks when the becoming keeps unfolding through weaning, returning to work, identity shifts, and the long forever of parenting.

Postpartum care has never been just baby care.
It is the protection of healing, rhythm, dignity, nourishment, and the slow return of the parent to themselves.

What would you add to this list?

07/10/2026

We are still building postpartum care models around a six-week milestone while the real risk window often stretches through the entire first year.

That gap has consequences.

The stories, state review reports, and lived experiences of families all point to the same truth: people need far more touchpoints, more compassionate check-ins, and more practical in-home care long after the routine visit ends.

A single appointment cannot hold the physical healing, mental health shifts, identity changes, feeding challenges, sleep deprivation, and medical complications that can unfold across 365 days.

I keep imagining what would change if every family had a year of real postpartum care woven around them.

•Save this for the next time someone treats postpartum like a short chapter.
•Share it with someone reimagining maternal health.
•And in the comments, tell me: what’s one kind of support every family deserves in the first year postpartum?

07/10/2026

The Gravitron is basically a pelvic floor pop quiz no one studied for. 😂

Because once you’ve spent enough years as a postpartum doula, apparently you can’t just go to the fair like a normal person.You stand in front of a giant spinning metal cylinder designed to pin human beings to the wall with centrifugal force and think: Huh. I wonder how everyone’s pelvic floor is doing in there.

Anyway, this is your friendly reminder that leaking when you laugh, sneeze, jump, run, or get spun around at questionable speeds by a carnival ride may be common, but that doesn’t mean you just have to live with it forever.

Pelvic floor physical therapists are magical people. Kegels are not always the answer. And yes, I am very fun at parties.

Especially parties with a Gravitron.

07/10/2026

Hold for the postpartum permission your body needs today ✨

What did you land on, and what kind of support are you needing most right now?

07/09/2026

20 things to plan now because postpartum should never be improvised:
1. freezer meals
2. night water/snack station
3. breast pump education
4. low-visitor boundaries
5. pelvic floor referral
6. sibling care
7. pet support
8. laundry basket in every room
9. postpartum doula support
10. infant feeding support plan
11. hydration ritual
12. partner sleep roles
13. village group text
14. grocery list template
15. body care basket
16. pain med alarms
17. meal train captain
18. emotional check-in person
19. return-to-work map
20. one person whose only job is asking how you are

Save this as your postpartum planning starter list.
Doulas: send this to your clients early.
Pregnant folks: which one are you adding first?

07/09/2026

What unforgettable doulas taught me about care ↓

— protect the parent as fiercely as the baby
— teach skills that outlast the shift
— make rest possible, not just reccommend it
— leave water, food, and comfort within arm’s reach

— notice the invisible labor before it becomes overwhelm
— hear what hasn’t been said yet
— tend the emotional weather before words arrive
— normalize softness without lowering standards

— align the rings of support, not replace them
— leave the home calmer than you found it
— make the space feel more possible than before
— let your care ripple after you leave

Care like this is specific, teachable and it lingers in the nervous system long after the shift ends.

07/09/2026

The first time, people came to meet my baby. The second time, I understood that what I needed was people who knew how to care for me.

Someone who brought food without asking what I wanted. Someone who noticed the laundry basket was full and just carried it downstairs. Someone who held the baby so I could shower, yes, but also someone who sat beside me while I fed the baby. Who brought me water. Who asked how I was doing and stayed long enough to hear the real answer.

Someone who understood that postpartum care is not just helping with the baby. It’s feeding the person who gave birth.
Protecting their rest.
Supporting their recovery.
Reducing the number of decisions they have to make.
Knowing what needs doing and doing it.
Making sure they are not disappearing beneath the enormous work of keeping a brand-new human alive while healing!

That kind of care rarely happens by accident. It happens when we plan for it.

And that’s exactly what we’re doing together this weekend in my live postpartum planning workshop, Begin With the End in Mind.

We’re going beyond the nursery and the registry and actually making a plan for the human who will be postpartum: your rest, food, recovery, relationships, visitors, nights, feeding, emotional care, household support, and what happens when things don’t go according to plan.

There are still spots available, and I would love to have you there.

Comment WORKSHOP and I’ll send you the details. ❤️

Because you deserve more than visitors who come to hold the baby. You deserve to be held, too

07/09/2026

Receiving is a skill.
And for so many parents, it’s one of the hardest parts of the childbearing years.

Because somewhere along the way, needing became tangled up with guilt.

The practice is to let care move toward you before depletion makes the choice for you.

The people supporting you postpartum also need language for why receiving can feel so hard.

Save this to come back to, or share it with your partner, doula, or care circle before the baby comes.

07/08/2026

The biggest birth prep mistake? Preparing for the birth day and not the healing season after.

So many families spend hours on the hospital bag, labor positions, and what they hope birth will look like.

Far fewer are taught how to prepare for:
• recovery
• sleep protection
• feeding support
• visitor boundaries
• emotional care
• the first 40 days (and beyond) at home

But that’s often what shapes whether postpartum feels survivable, supported, and deeply held.

A positive postpartum experience rarely happens by accident.
It’s built through specificity, care roles, and planning for the parent as much as the baby.

This is your reminder that birth planning and postpartum planning belong together. And they are both best done while you are still pregnant.

Save this for reference and send it to the person helping you build your support plan. And if you don’t have someone helping you build that plan…DM me.

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