Tricia James Doula and Massage Therapist, LLC

06/07/2026

Williamsburg area mommas, Motherhood at CDR has great resources!! Check out the calendar and see if there are any events that would be helpful for you and your family.
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Swinging into summer with lots of free classes, groups & ways to connect with other moms! Check out our June calendar 🩷💙

05/13/2026

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Williamsburg area breastfeeding moms....check this out!!

05/07/2026

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This is for the dads, the partners, the one's witnessing the intensity and miracle of birth.

She's incredibly strong. She might look like she's got it. But she needs you to know:

✨️Labor is aptly named, it is WORK
✨️We don't need you to fix anything, we just need you to be there and supporting
✨️Movement helps, and you can do so much to help, especially when we're getting tired
✨️Words matter. It's a hard and vulnerable time, your encouragement means everything
✨️Birth doesn't happen in minutes, and decisions around birth take time.
✨️Support can literally change how birth happens. Labor progresses best when she feels safest, loved, supported.

Partners, you might not be the person giving birth, but you have a big role.

👇🏽 Tag a dad below who needs to prep, or tag the partner who was amazing and showed up in all the right ways.

04/17/2026

Open/closed glottis pushing is an important part of the education I give my clients. It is not up to me to tell mommas how to push, but it’s up to me to teach them the differences so they can choose what’s best for them.

Also known as 'purple pushing'— it actively works against the way the body is designed to birth.
Why “hold your breath and push for 10” is biomechanically backwards.
Directed, breath‑holding pushing:

**Closes the glottis, which increases intrathoracic pressure
**Reduces oxygen flow to both mother and baby
**Creates unnecessary strain on pelvic floor muscles
**Shortens the exhale, which is the natural mechanism that helps the uterus and abdominal muscles work together
**Ignores fetal rotation, which often needs time and subtle movement, not force
**Can increase perineal trauma
**Disrupts the Ferguson reflex, which is the body’s built‑in pushing reflex

In other words: it’s the opposite of what physiology wants.

02/01/2026

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10/11/2025

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The Birthing Pool Test by Michel Odent
When a woman enters the pool in hard labor, there is an immediate pain relief, and therefore an immediate reduction in the levels of stress hormones. Since stress hormones and oxytocin are antagonistic, the main short-term response is usually a peak of oxytocin and therefore a spectacular progress in the dilation.
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09/19/2025

✨Coming next month!✨
Infant Massage Class
Join us for a 4 week class teaching you and sharing with you the power of nurturing touch. Our hope is you and your baby's bond grows stronger, you make connections with others and feel more in tune with what your baby's body language is telling you. If you want to join us register with the link here ➡️ https://forms.office.com/r/dQziL3NTcq

05/08/2025

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05/08/2025

This is a great resource for our community! Mommas, check it out.

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03/24/2025

I don’t know if it’s the familiarity of her northern accent, her love for the Lord, or her quirkiness but I thoroughly enjoy her😆