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.
The Tracking Apps
The app was infrastructure, the same logic as setting a reminder to take your medication. The alarm went off and we all...
What Does a Postpartum Doula Actually Do?
The answer is different every time, which sounds like a dodge. Day four is not day seventeen, and 6pm when everyone is...
Boundaries, burnout, and babies
Understanding boundaries conceptually and applying them inconsistently is the honest version of where I'm at. Then there were the twins, and I...
What families have taught me
What's hard is almost always the gap between what people expected postpartum to feel like and what it actually does. The thing...
What Does It Feel Like To Show Up For Families?
Something happens around the first hour, when a parent says the thing they have not said out loud to anyone yet. Leaving...
In which I take an unexpected week off, or, how HFM kicked the snot out of us
Hand, foot and mouth sounds manageable until it isn't. The internet suggests popsicles, which is advice written somewhere that is not currently...
Why I chose postpartum work (or maybe it chose me, a little)
The long walk to postpartum work starts with losing my dad and my sister before my son was a thought. Evidence over...
My Absolute Favourite Perinatal Books and Why I Never Shut Up About Them
Two books recommended so often that it is becoming a whole thing. Lucy Jones on matrescence, a word first named in the...
How a Babywearing Class and One DM Changed My Entire Career
Twenty-three years in IT and no plan to leave, then a babywearing session with a doula who mentioned how rewarding the work...