Thoughts, reads,
and the real stuff.
Book reviews, postpartum tips, and an honest account of what it's actually like to be a brand new doula. Welcome.
Starting Solids
Somebody’s mother-in-law has Opinions about purees, the kind delivered as a story about how she did it in 1987 and everyone survived,...
Why Your Baby Won’t Sleep
Your baby has spent their entire existence in a space that was warm and dark and moved with you, fluid pressing in...
How are you holding up? (A belated Father’s Day post)
Everyone who visits a new baby has the same script. How’s mama doing, is she sleeping, does she need anything, can I...
How To Visit A Baby
If you ask a new parent what they need, you’ll get “nothing, we’re fine” or a long pause. New parents don’t even...
The Tracking Apps
There was a period of time with a new baby where I could not have told you with any confidence whether I...
What does a postpartum doula actually do??
People ask me this a lot, and I never have the same answer twice, which I know sounds like a dodge but...
Boundaries, burnout, and babies
Nobody tells you that the hardest part of this work isn’t the work. I have been thinking about boundaries a lot lately,...
What families have taught me
There are things you learn in training, and then there are things you learn in someone’s kitchen while they’re trying to remember...
What Does It Feel Like To Show Up For Families?
Something happens around the first hour. New parents say something they haven’t said out loud to anyone yet, and I don’t know...
In which I take an unexpected week off, or, how HFM kicked the snot out of us
I’m writing this from the other side, which feels important to say upfront because four days ago I was not sure there...