Ebb & Flow Doula Care

11/03/2025

She’s here. 💕

10•15•2025

Everyone is doing well, healing & resting. Enjoying our family bubble.

09/24/2025

Capturing a few more moments & sunsets together, before our plus one arrives. (Don’t tell Rizzo 🐾 )

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More to come soooon.
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06/15/2025

Two years later, under the same tree he asked me to be his wife, we are excited to share our home is growing by two feet. 💕

06/30/2024

It’s not only a privilege to watch our doula babies grow, but to witness their Mamas too.
In love. In capacity. In friendship.

✌🏼Xo
Your doula, Emily.
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03/06/2024

35 hours later, I couldn’t have been more happy to witness you meeting your parents for the first time.
Welcome earth side, baby. You’re Mama is amazing.

(Happily) *Yawns* 🥱 in birth doula.
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12/14/2023

Interesting!

❗️BREAKING NEWS❗️

A new study published in Nature reveals abnormally high levels of the hormone, GDF15, and increased sensitivity to it, are the major factors contributing to HG.

Dr. Marlena Fejzo, Hyperemesis Education and Research (HER) Foundation Research Advisor and Board Member, and her team previously identified three independent genetic variants in GDF15, all of which strongly increase the risk of developing HG. GDF15 is known to cause nausea, vomiting, and appetite and taste changes.
The new study, first-authored by HER Foundation’s Dr. Fejzo and co-authored by HER’s Executive Director Kimber MacGibbon, was led by Dr. Stephen O’Rahilly at the University of Cambridge and includes an international team of researchers.

The work suggests that, in the future, HG may be prevented by raising GDF15 levels prior to pregnancy using a priming strategy. The study also provides the first suggestive evidence that an interaction between maternal and fetal genes plays a role in recurrence risk. However, larger studies are needed to confirm this.

Dr. Marlena Fejzo lost her baby due to the pregnancy complication, hyperemesis gravidarum, in 1999 and has been researching the cause ever since. “While I have worked, people have continued to contact the HER Foundation with heartbreaking stories like my own, begging for answers. I think we finally have the solution.”

Read more: hyperemesis.org/news/nature2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06921-9

Support our HG Research: hyperemesis.org/donate

12/10/2023

✨Yay! It’s live! ✨

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12/09/2023

With you through Pregnancy, Birth & Postpartum.

I got ya. 😉

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