Ridge Meadows Doula Services

01/12/2026

Come join us this Sunday for our newborn prep class. This class goes everything you need to know when you bring your baby home. Sleeping, crying, diapering, feeding and more.

01/05/2026

Why Parents Should Attend La Leche League Maple Ridge 🤍

Parenting especially feeding your baby can feel overwhelming, isolating, and full of questions. La Leche League Maple Ridge offers something every parent deserves: support without judgment.

Whether you’re breastfeeding, combo feeding, pumping, chestfeeding, or simply figuring out what works best for your family, LLL Maple Ridge is a place to:
✨ Learn evidence-based feeding information
✨ Ask real questions in a safe, welcoming space
✨ Connect with other parents who truly get it
✨ Feel reassured that you’re not doing this alone

These meetings aren’t about perfection they’re about confidence, connection, and community. Partners and caregivers are welcome, and every feeding journey is respected.

If you’re a new parent, expecting, or even months (or years) into feeding your baby, this is a space where you’ll feel seen, supported, and empowered.

💛 Community matters. You don’t have to figure this out on your own. Our own RMDS doulas Dawn and Tracey are our local Maple Ridge Leaders.

01/02/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday, Dawn! 🎉

Today we’re celebrating one of our absolute gems at Ridge Meadows Doula Services.

Dawn is a passionate birth and postpartum doula with the brain of an engineer, a deep understanding of neurodivergent clients, and a genuine love of reading new birth research for fun. She’s thoughtful, analytical, and fiercely committed to informed, evidence-based care.

And somehow, beyond all that? She also bakes and makes fresh bread, rides her bike everywhere, and serves her community as a Scouts volunteer because being impressive is clearly her baseline.

We’re so grateful for the care, heart, and brilliance she brings to our team and the families we serve.

Join us in wishing Dawn the happiest of birthdays!

12/25/2025

Birth changes everything.
This Christmas, we’re holding space for newborn snuggles, tender postpartum days, and families finding their rhythm. 🎄🤍

Wishing you rest, warmth, and gentle moments from Ridge Meadows Doula Services

12/03/2025

Does your family do elf on the shelf? When my daughter was young, we started this tradition. We adapted some of the “rules” and made an our own. Now with a nearly 16-year-old, our elf lemon, still pops by every year.

Feel free to share your elf ideas below.

I caved this year- Elf on the Shelf December 8, 2013 Over the last few years I’ve seen Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram be polluted from photos of a little red elf hiding in homes and making messes. Up until this year I was not interested in A) cleaning up after the little thing B) remem...

11/17/2025

Slate grey nevus, also known as blue-grey spots or congenital dermal melanocytosis, are a type of birthmark that are typically flat and blue-grey, or sometimes purple, in colour.

They are most common on babies with Black and Brown skin and are generally found on the sacrum and buttocks, but can also be observed on arms and legs.

Slate grey nevus are NOT bruises. They are simply the result of pigment cells, or melanocytes, not reaching the surface of the skin.⁣ They do not hurt and generally require no treatment; they often fade by the age of 4.

If you identify a slate grey nevus when doing a baby examination, or NIPE, it is important to document it. This is to avoid it later being mistaken for a bruise.

Finally - you may have heard these birthmarks called ‘Mongolian blue spots’. This is derogatory, racially insensitive terminology and should NOT be used. If you hear it used in practice, please take the time to correct it. We can all play our part in decolonising language and midwifery education.

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11/15/2025

If having a doula shifts your confidence, your birth story, and your whole energy… we’ll take the blame proudly.

Here’s to strong parents and supported beginnings.

11/01/2025

We are so honoured to share that Ridge Meadows Doula Services has been voted an A-List Winner in the

Thank you to our amazing community for your continued trust and support whether you’ve invited us into your birth space, joined a class, or shared our name with a friend, you’ve helped us grow and serve more families each year.

We also want to give a special shoutout to our local midwives , who took second place! While doulas and midwives work closely together, our roles are beautifully different, midwives provide medical care, while doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational support throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Together, we make a strong team supporting families in our community.

From our whole doula collective- thank you, Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows, for your trust and love!

10/15/2025

🕯️ Join Us for a Wave of Light 🕯️

On November 15 at 7 PM, we invite you to light a candle in remembrance of the babies gone too soon.
Together, we’ll create a wave of light that shines across homes and hearts honouring the beautiful lives that touched us deeply.

Take a moment to pause, reflect, and hold space for all families who carry this love and loss.

10/13/2025

Feeling deeply thankful today.
Thankful for the beautiful, unceded territory we live and work on which grounds and connects us.
Thankful for the time spent with friends and family- for laughter, love, and support that remind us we’re never alone.
And thankful for our clients- for trusting us to walk beside you through some of the most tender and transformative moments of your lives.

It’s an honour to do this work and to share this space with such incredible people.

09/30/2025

Today, we pause to honor Survivors of residential schools, the children who never made it home, and the families and communities forever impacted by this harmful history.

The impacts of residential schools are not just in the past, they are carried through generations. They live in our bodies, our parenting, our communities, and in the ways we work toward healing.

At Ridge Meadows Doula Services, we recognize that birth and parenting journeys cannot be separated from the history of colonization. Supporting families means acknowledging these truths, listening deeply, and walking alongside both Indigenous and non-Indigenous families with respect, compassion, and commitment to reconciliation.

For education, reflection, and pathways to action, see:

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR): https://nctr.ca/

Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS): https://www.irsss.ca/

Today and every day, we commit to truth-telling, honoring Survivors, and creating pathways to healing.

In solidarity,
Ridge Meadows Doula’s

09/25/2025

✨What’s getting us through September ✨

September is a whirlwind with back-to-school drop offs, activities starting back up, and even navigating family medical emergencies. We are all working parents balancing everything from daycare drop-offs to 10th-grade homework help. We do this all while holding space for our clients.

What keeps us steady is the same care we encourage for the families we support: taking care of ourselves, so we can take care of you.

We’re grateful for the strength of our collective. We lean on each other when schedules collide, when unexpected life moments happen, and when the calendar gets a little too full.

Because when doulas support doulas, we show up as our best selves for the families we serve.