Your cervix is talked about a lot throughout your pregnancy, but may not be a body part that’s talked about a whole lot beforehand. However, it plays an important role during labor as it dilates and effaces which allows your baby to make it’s way down the birth canal. Towards the end of your pregna…

Kicking off my birth book recommendations with the book that helped shape my viewpoint on childbirth! Holy Labor: How Childbirth Shapes a Woman's Soul by Aubry G. Smith As a Christian woman in the non medicated birthing world, I've seen and heard many things about the "power of woman …

During the births of my two children, one at a birthing center located inside a hospital and the other at home, I was encouraged to use aromatherapy and essential oils!  To help encourage labor, I made a roller of clary sage and geranium. I inhaled the blend and rolled on my inner ankles before l…

Doula is a Greek word that means woman caregiver; which has evolved to mean a woman experienced in childbirth who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to the mother & father before, during and after childbirth.  A birth doula’s role is very different from that of y…