At 8:09am, on the day his mama knew he would come,  she brought Westley earth side. He was a bit stunned from the speed of his exit, which i

Bianca was pretty quiet throughout her pregnancy. I scheduled more consults to get to know them a little better than I normally would, since we weren't communicating as much as I like via text, email, and phone. Every time I met them I did feel closer to them, and began to understand the working of their relationship and their feelings about this pregnancy a bit more. At one point during one of our meetings, Bianca passionately discussed needing an end date for this pregnan

This story is a little different. It's a story about a time, I had to use a backup. As a matter of fact, that week was the first time I had to ever use a backup, and I had to do it twice. I met Carrie-Ellen and her husband Don a few months back, along with their adorable son Nick. As I sat with them in their living room Carrie-Ellen told me that her previous birth was what had them searching for a doula this time. That while she had vaginal birth with Nick, it wasn't the expe

Two doctors came in to talk to Kaitlin, both suggesting that while she and baby were doing fine, perhaps consenting to a cesarean would be b

I met Amy and Jerry 3 and a half years ago, when they were pregnant with their daughter, Katherine. They were kind, funny, and educated. While Amy ended up having an empowering experience with Katherine, it was because she fought for it. Her providers were insistent that she birth when they wanted her to and how they wanted her to. She overcame multiple hurdles and while she had the vaginal birth she had hoped for, she left with different feelings that what should have come