Thoughts from a birthworker:
Keeping it real about birth, postpartum, parenthood, running, farming, reproductive justice and life.
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I have long said that I would write a book named “Sh*t I wish we spoke about pregnancy and postpartum,“ because after years of doing this work, that phrase is one I often hear from my clients. Though there’s no…
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Getting back into running while postpartum
I ran a half marathon today! And not any half marathon but arguably one of the most difficult half marathons in the Northeast. A trail run that took me up 1500 feet elevation and back down and then back up…
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Affirming Support
I’m feeling so excited over these birth affirmations I just designed for my client who is due any day now. Typically when I am supporting a family, I ask them to review a number of different affirmations and come up…
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Postpartum: Grieving over your old self
As someone who had a “geriatric pregnancy” and supports pregnant folks who also have “geriatric pregnancies” and/or are knee deep in a career that they have spent all of their 20s to build, the transition into parenthood could be challenging.…
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A Doula / Birthworker’s Origin Story
The first birth I attended was my best friend’s birth. I drove down from graduate school in Western Massachusetts at midnight in early January, picked up my mom (my birth guru) in Queens Village, and drove like a madwoman to…
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