Postpartum Care Tips Congratulations on your new arrival! Becoming a new parent can be exciting, overwhelming, and bring on all of the emotions. Here are some postpartum care tips to help you through these next few months. Take care of yourself! We get so wrapped up with caring for our babies (and the rest of …
What’s a Placenta Tincture? So you’ve decided on placenta encapsulation to help you heal naturally after you give birth. Now you’re wondering, what’s a placenta tincture and why would I want one? You’ll be taking your placenta capsules for approximately 4-6 weeks after birth. During that time you will be replenishing lost nutrients and hopefully, you’ll …
What do postpartum doulas do? Imagine for a few minutes you’ve given birth to your beautiful baby. Your baby is a few hours old. You’re exhausted, hungry for real food, and completely overjoyed with your new tiny bundle of love. Its two days in now. You haven’t gotten much sleep at the hospital with all …
Placenta Pills Are In the News Again Placenta pills are in the news again for helping new moms post-birth! Women are choosing to have their placenta made into pills after they give birth. They want extra help in healing, transitioning, and the best chance to thrive post-birth. They deserve to do that free from judgement! …
The Silent Killer Whispers Loudly The silent killer whispers loudly, but not everyone will hear it. Perinatal mood disorders are silent killers. In the year after giving birth too many families suffer in silence as postpartum anxiety, depression, P.T.S.D., and psychosis, talk, persuade, and even force them into the unimaginable. Not enough is being done about it. It’s …
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Star of The Bachelorette Eats Her Placenta! Will You Do the Same? Star of The Bachelorette eats her placenta, will you? That’s a question many pregnant moms are asking themselves and each other. Okay, hold on just one minute, first let’s address the verbiage used. And you can say eat, ingest, consume, whatever your preference is just …
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Your Placenta: A Modern Approach to an Age Old Practice Your placenta is a modern day marvel! Perhaps you’ve taken a class that talked briefly about the placenta. Maybe you’ve read about the function of your placenta in relation to pregnancy. It carries oxygenated blood and nutrients to the baby. In addition it carries waste and …
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First Coast Doulas has expanded! Our professionalism, safe practices, and compassion make us extraordinary! People, including healthcare providers love the way we’re providing placenta encapsulation. This part of First Coast Doulas has grown so much so that we’ve decided to branch into First Coast Placenta! We unveiled at The Prego Expo in Jax. this past …
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Insurance Policy For Expecting Parents There’s an insurance policy for expecting parents and it’s easier than ever to obtain. Being a new mother encompasses a range of emotions from excited to exhausted. The details, not to be forgotten. There seems to be a never ending list of things. After your baby arrives you will be taking care of …
Our Fur Baby Died, If I Had a Doula that Day Over the years I knew that the day would come we would have to say goodbye to our sweet baby. I knew that his average lifespan was only 10-12 years, but the heart never really prepares for such loss. It was a long week, …
