birth
“We have a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.” — Laura Stavoe Harm
Birth takes place in many ways, in many places. Whether you are planning a home birth, hospital birth, VBAC, scheduled Cesarean, birth center birth, or any other variation, you are embarking on a journey that is unique to you and your baby. Whether this is your first or your fifth, whether you are a young mom or an experienced mom, every single baby you bring into this world rebirths who you are - it changes you, requires much of you, defines you, softens you, and challenges you.
You deserve to have a doula with you every step of the way, to prepare you and help adapt to changes. You deserve someone who is educated on birth, understands the emotional, mental, and physical, demands, that birth brings; and is completely unbiased and has no nuanced view of how birth happens. You deserve someone who knows your birth rights, your options, and can advocate strongly for you. You deserve someone who will educate you, empower you, and support you.
I am that doula. I fiercely support the high risk births, the hospital births, the moms who want an epidural, the moms who need a belly birth, the low risk births, the home births, the water births, the unexpected and unplanned births, the births following loss or infertility, the intervention-free births.
"I don't care what kind of birth you have...a homebirth, scheduled cesarean, an epidural hospital birth or if you give birth alone in the woods next to a baby deer. I care that you had options, that you were supported in your choices and that you were respected." - January Harshe