You have a prenatal appointment coming up. You’ve had questions swirling in your head for two weeks — about a scan result, about how you’ve been feeling, about a decision you keep going back and forth on. You walk in, you get called back, and somewhere between the waiting room and the exam table, every […]

You’re pregnant, you’re planning, and somewhere in the back of your mind a question has been nagging at you: should I hire a birth doula? Maybe you’ve Googled it. Maybe a friend mentioned it. Maybe you’re reading this because some part of you already knows the answer – you’re just looking for someone to confirm […]

⬇️ Scroll down for all 21 affirmations — organized by mind, body, and baby. Save this post, screenshot your favorites, and come back to it whenever you need it.I want to tell you something about birth affirmations that most people don’t say. Just saying nice things doesn’t work. If you’re carrying real fear, real anxiety, […]

There’s a version of pregnancy care that focuses almost entirely on your body: your weight, your bloodwork, your baby’s growth chart, your test results. And then there’s everything else — how you’re feeling, what you’re afraid of, what stories you’ve absorbed about birth from movies and family members and strangers on the internet, whether you […]

Somewhere in those first weeks or months postpartum, you may have caught yourself thinking: I just want to feel like myself again. Like the old you was still in there somewhere — just temporarily buried under the exhaustion and the feedings and the diapers and the feelings — and if you could just get through […]

Every time I post about birth plans on social media, the comments blow up. Some moms are excited. Some are skeptical. But the most predictable response — like clockwork — comes from moms who’ve already given birth: “Don’t bother. Mine didn’t work.” And I get it. I really do. When you spend time putting together […]

I want to start here: wanting an unmedicated birth does not make you crazy. I know, because I’ve had someone look me dead in the eyes when I shared my birth intentions and say — and I quote — “Are you stupid? They have these things called epidurals.” I was taken aback. And then I […]