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✨✨The Arrival ✨✨
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Two years ago I was washing dishes and watching a show with my Husband, Mother, Sister, and oldest son. I started having contractions while washing dishes and my Mom noticed and offered to finish and let me sit down. I declined, finished the dishes, and waited until the show was over and announced I was in labor. Everyone started prepping cleaning the tub, starting the water, lighting candles, playing music, etc. I took some motherwort, blue/black cohosh and got into the tub. My contractions made me question giving birth again and it took me a little while until I able to release and let my body do what it was meant to do. I moved around into several positions and ended up giving birth on all fours. This video captures that moment, the moment where I was a bridge between heaven and earth I was simultaneously at my most vulnerable, powerful, and magical. All of that said I am still at loss for words to describe how amazing it was to birth my second child on my terms into my husbands hands in our bathtub. Thankful to have had such a beautiful birth and humbled to have been chosen by both my boys.
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Reposted from @bestdoula (@get_regrann) - Doulas often answer the question "what do doulas do" The age-old answer for this has been "we provide physical, emotional, and informational support." But you see, this definition sells us very short.
Sure, we provide physical support, sometimes literally - holding hips, legs, hair. However, a doula's ability to physically support their client isn't really that - it's that we are 100% responsive, anticipating needs before they are voiced by using our knowledge of our client and our understanding of birth. Physical support sounds like training wheels - and we are so much more than that.
Yes, we provide emotional support. Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum are emotional times. But what doulas provide is unwavering faith in their client's abilities. Doulas can slow the room when it's spinning, be an anchor when clients need to hold on, act as a sounding board when they need to roar. We understand how very hard birthing people are working even when it looks easy.
Yes we do have a vast amount of knowledge about pregnancy, physiologically normal birth, cesarean births and postpartum. But truly, providing endless amounts of information can create a divide in the relationship we build with clients. Instead, of being the source of all information for clients, doulas are the bridge to that information and other resources.
Our clients, already know more about how they will birth their baby then we do. Doulas both know and honor that truth.
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Non è molto ma è un no-hands onesto ✈️❌ Support @chierimotorscrew
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This time I decided not to get my hair done in some elaborate care free style for birth. I wanted to wash my hair after birth. Wash the sweat and the journey away. I'm so happy I did. I deep conditioned and put it in some nice #byefelicia twists. And when I take my first little outing all I have to do is take it out, maybe wet it and I'm good to go and I smell like flowers and black girls. Afros are magical. New babies are pretty amazing too.
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Wash day in the kitchen sink. Anyone else hold on tight to these days? ♀️
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Making memories and maintaining routines with your big babe shouldn’t feel so much like a sacrifice when your new babe arrives.
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Postpartum doulas are present to give you the space and time to keep up with building these sweet memories with your big while your little snoozes their life away.
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Because the good book of #BlackGirlMagic does say “Thou shall never forsake the wash day.”
This one is for the #BlackMen What was it like when your child was born? Did you participate? Did you have the information you needed to provide support? Were you overwhelmed or empowerd? Was it beautiful or traumatic? Come join the conversation. Sunday August 4th at 1pm. S/O and thank you to @egosgentlemenspa for hosting and to @bolingo_ashay for pushing us to make this happen.
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