Hospital Birth Makes My Skin Crawl
I love birth but some aspects of birth are very triggering to me, it literally makes my skin crawl. I support women’s choice to birth wherever they feel most comfortable. The woods? I’m with that. Your house? Call me, I’ll show up! Birthing center? I support it, but you won’t be hiring me. The…
Become a Certified Doula in Tampa this September
Who: Anyone wishing to certify as a doula/birthkeeper and obtain hands-on placenta training. This certified program is best suited to those who are interested in the more holistic route of birth support. What: A one-day training program (which includes access to an online course) which will certify you as a birth doula and cover topics…
What’s In The Doula Bag?!
HERBAL is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. This list can be used for not only birth workers, but birthing peoples may want to gather these items for themselves! The items I have marked as a rental means…
Birthing Self Confidence – How your Birth Empowers Life Going Forward
It is beautiful watching women evolve through pregnancy and child birth. It is no secret that birth is transformational, though most have no idea how significant this transformation is. Most have no idea that their birth choices, especially place of birth, can impact their entire life going forward. Some women leave their birth experience feeling…
When First Time Moms Choose Freebirth
Freebirth – the process of intentionally giving birth without the assistance of a medical birth attendant – the only kind of birth where you will find me. Recently, a first time mother ask that I support her choice. Unlike most births, this woman came to me, she birthed in my home. Her environment wasn’t ideal…
Educating Women to Avoid Tyrannical Oppression in Birth
Likely a very unpopular opinion, that’s okay though! It’s mine and I own it. ✊We should be educating women on healthy lifestyles, diets, etcetera to help them have a healthy pregnancy, so she is not needing emergency/high risk services. ✊We should be teaching women about each aspect of physiological birth, dispelling all the typical myths…
How Your Struggles Can Make You A Better Birth Worker
In your life, even after becoming a birth worker, there will be hills, speed bumps, pot holes, and road blocks along the way. While we’re going through it, and it feels like we will never come out of it, or understand why it is happening to us, we can envision what this will do for…
Pitocin Is The New Episiotomy
If you were a fly on the wall on a Labor & Delivery floor, you would see a bag of Pitocin or Synthetic Oxytocin being hooked up to a majority of the IVs on the floor. For some, Pitocin is absolutely necessary to stop a serious hemorrhage, but why is it being used routinely for…
Healing Foods, Supplements & Therapies For Cancer
HERBAL is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. On a daily basis, people reach out to me, knowing how my son’s health was improving tremendously in mine and my husband’s care, despite a diagnosis of cancer, and immediate…
Questions To Ask A Potential Midwife
Recently I have seen a rise in people claiming to be a home-birth midwife that are not trained or equipped to provide the services they offer – all across the US. This has resulted in multiple fetal deaths, maternal deaths/harm, and unnecessary birth trauma. These ‘midwives’ are something to shy away from – here is…