Serenity a Birth Doula Service Okinawa

24/12/2025

A doula is not someone you call when labor starts and hope for the best.

We are not a last-minute rescue.
We are not a savior rushing in to “fix” birth.

A doula is someone you build a relationship with months before you ever feel a contraction.

When you hire a doula early, the real work begins long before labor. We walk beside you as you learn, question, process, and prepare. We help you understand your body, your options, and your voice, so by the time birth arrives, you’re not looking to someone else to save you. You already know you can do this.

We don’t just attend a birth.
We help shape the experience you walk into it with.

We:
~Educate you on the physiology of labor so fear doesn’t run the show
~Help you understand common interventions, your choices, and your rights
~Talk through what-ifs so nothing feels shocking or overwhelming
~Help you build a birth plan that’s flexible, realistic, and truly yours
~Teach your partner how to support you with confidence — not panic
~Normalize what labor looks and feels like so you don’t doubt yourself
~Help you practice positions, comfort measures, breathing, and coping tools
~Prepare you mentally and emotionally, not just physically
~Hold space for your fears, questions, and past experiences
~Remind you again and again that your body is not broken

By the time labor begins, we aren’t strangers walking into your birth.

We are a familiar, grounding presence.
We already know your preferences, your triggers, your goals, your strength.

And during labor?
We remind you:
~You are informed
~You are capable
~You are allowed to ask questions
~You are allowed to pause
~You are allowed to change your mind
~You are in control of your birth choices

Hiring a doula early isn’t about having backup.
It’s about walking into birth confident instead of afraid.
Prepared instead of unsure.
Supported instead of alone.

If you want to feel calm, grounded, educated, and powerful when labor begins, don’t wait until the last minute.

This work starts long before labor does.
And it changes everything.

18/12/2025

Give yourself time, patience, and grace. Your house will be clean again, but you will NEVER be able to enjoy these early moments with this one baby again. Healing and bonding is important. 🤍

Your postpartum wife shouldn’t be up cleaning.

She should be in bed.
Bonding with her baby.
Healing, leaking, sore, exhausted, and resting anyway.

If she’s up washing bottles,
doing laundry,
scrubbing the kitchen,
or saying “sorry for the mess”…

That’s not strength.
That’s survival.
Thats you failing her.

Postpartum isn’t a glow up phase.
It’s a hands off her, hands on everything else phase.

The house can wait.
The floors can wait.
Your comfort can wait.

Her body just went through war to bring life into this world.
Act like it.

©️Momming On Empty

16/12/2025

Co-sleeping may not be for everyone but if you follow safe sleep seven and take safety measures then don’t feel bad for doing what feels natural to you! 🥰 I think this was the only way I made it through postpartum.

12/12/2025

The past 4 years here in Okinawa have been amazing. I have grown as a person and gained a deep love for birth work. I pray that I will continue to support families at our next duty station.

To all my past and current clients in Okinawa, it has been a pleasure to be selected to accompany you on your journey of birth. You all have empowered me in so many ways. Each of you holds such a special place in my heart. Not only my birth doula clients, but my postpartum, lactation, and placenta encapsulation clients thank you for trusting me and allowing me to be a part of such a special time in your life.

With any PCS, you have to start new, so I ask all of my clients for one favor: a review. I have two links below. You can choose one, or you can copy and paste the same review to both.

🌸With Love,
Tatiana

20/09/2025

You need both. Not one or they other. AND they are not they same. They have specifically different jobs. Now get out there and hire a midwife AND a doula!

18/09/2025

If you’re looking for a birth doula or postpartum doula I have opened more spots for the end of 2025 and early 2026.

We will be PCSing in May of 2026 so I will no longer accept clients after March 2026.

🌸I offer 3 different packages and payment plans. So please don’t hesitate to reach out if money is an issue we can make it work.

11/08/2025

“Skin-to-skin is becoming a lost part of newborn care.”

We’re so quick to wrap babies in layers, pass them around for photos, and lay them in bassinets… but their very first need is us.

Skin-to-skin isn’t just sentimental. It’s science.
Studies show it stabilizes a newborn’s heart rate and breathing.
It regulates their body temperature better than an incubator.
It lowers cortisol (stress hormone) for both baby and parent.
It even boosts their immune system through exposure to healthy skin bacteria.

And yet, somewhere along the way, we traded this ancient instinct for convenience
the swaddle, the stroller, the swing.

When you hold a newborn skin-to-skin, you’re doing more than bonding.
You’re syncing your heartbeat with theirs.
You’re teaching their lungs how to breathe steady.
You’re jumpstarting their digestion, their immunity, their entire sense of safety in the world.

We can’t lose this.
Not when it’s one of the simplest, most powerful things we can give them.

11/06/2025

29/05/2025

I am looking for a family that is interested in a Postpartum Doula!

I plan to finish my certification before we PCS in 2026, and I need one more family to work with to complete that portion of the certification. If you are looking for the following to help your postpartum healing, please message me for more details and pricing. 🌸

25/03/2025

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Mommas coming to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa from off island, for prenatal care or NICU Services are invited to register for a volunteer sponsor

22/03/2025

If you’re looking for breastmilk jewelry in Okinawa check this business out! She made my keepsake and I will cherish it forever, Lu is such an amazing person. 💗

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I specialize in personalized breastmilk jewelry. All jewelry is made of 925 sterling silver and either gold, silver or rose gold plated. I offer a variety of jewelry including rings, bracelets, pendants and earrings. ✨

16/03/2025

Looking for a doula? 🤍
I am only accepting clients until November/December(2025)! If you have any questions about doulas (birth & postpartum) or if you want to know more about placenta encapsulation, I would love to chat.

I offer payment schedules, so you don’t have to pay it all upfront. I also offer Gift cards 💳 which allows family to help with the cost. I want to be able to support those that need it, I have a tiered pricing list for both birth & postpartum services, also a service combining birth & postpartum support.