1 in 4 Women Will Experience Infant & Pregnancy Loss At some point in life you’ll find yourself wondering how to support someone you care about whose grieving an infant or pregnancy loss. Perhaps it’s you who’s lost a baby and you’re wondering; what sorts of feelings are normal, and what you should share and …
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 …
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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Lip and Tongue Tie, Breastfeeding, and Circumcision I often use the term doula and refer to the doula as she, but there are many professional doulas who are men. When couples hire a doula they believe that non-judgmental support comes standard. However, that is not always the case. Lip and tongue tie, breastfeeding, and circumcision along …
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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, …
Promises, Promises Unlike the lyrics from the 1983 song, Promises, Promises says: You made me promises promises Knowing I’d believe Promises promises You knew you’d never keep You can absolutely can count on First Coast Doulas to keep their promise to you because we do not make unrealistic promises or guarantees, or feed you false …
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We Won’t Jump Ship If Your Plan Goes To Shit! First Coast Doulas is here to support you in making your dreams come true, but we won’t jump ship if your plan goes to shit! By shit, I don’t mean “shit” at all; I mean the plan or the vision changes course! As adults …
Never Say These 10 Things to A Mom It happens more times than you might realize, a woman’s feelings are invalidated by other people. When a new mom comes away from her miscarriage, stillbirth, live birth, postpartum, or breastfeeding experience feeling sad, disappointed, hurt, or upset, her feelings are anything but satisfying to her. Regardless of how …
Your First Dump After Birth Hold onto your mesh postpartum panties, “Your First Dump After Birth” isn’t going where you think it is! The majority of women who’ve given birth have some reservations about the possibility of tearing open their vagina or cesarean incision with that first post-birth bowel movement. That’s another blog for another day! …
