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Empowered Birth Alaska

Providing quality, professional support & services. Your experience, birth, & wellness matter!

Click 'Learn More' to get more information about what EBA can offer to your birth journey experience. Check out our website www.empoweredbirthalaska.com to see a complete list of services, descriptions, and about us.

04/20/2026

Every year I recertify as a doula, to confirm I am still practicing, and have the necessary skills to support laboring parents. I know what I’m doing! 😉

04/15/2026

Basically the same thing 😂 big mouth, bottom jaw first, and roll the top in!

04/14/2026

We just want you to feel respected, seen, informed, and empowered!

04/13/2026

Did you have a C-section birth? If so, what were the circumstances of it?

Cesarean section, aka C-section, is a major surgical procedure used to deliver a baby through incisions made in the mothers abdomen and uterus, usually a horizontal cut low on the abdomen. It’s most often performed when a vaginal delivery is not possible or safe.

In Alaska in 2024 (the most recent data), 23.2% of live births were cesarean deliveries.

The rate of primary (it being someone’s first) cesarean deliveries was 16.4 per 100 live births.

The rate of VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) was 27.8 per 100 live births.

Between 2014-2024, the percent of live births delivered by Cesarean declined more than 2%!

Sources: March of dimes, Mayo Clinic, NHS

04/09/2026

Are you preparing for a baby’s arrival and have questions? Or curious about what doula support looks like? Join us the first Saturday of each month for a live Q&A! Not a pressured sales call, we just want to share the knowledge we’ve gained from doing this for well over 10 years between the two of us ❤️ link to register is in my link tree in bio.

04/02/2026

A special bonus during overnight postpartum support - I’m actually awake to see the Aurora! 😍

03/24/2026

World Doula Week kicked off with a bang! 2 babies were born in the last 2 days, baby F, baby A, and their families are doing great 🥰 the remainder of the week I’ll be supporting two other families with overnight care, along with checking in on the two newest families, and taking some newborn pictures too!

I’m constantly reminded of why I do this work, and why I love it so much! There’s no greater feeling than helping people realize how powerful and capable they are of doing hard things. There’s little that could fill my heart more than witnessing the miracle of new life, and making a difference in how parents experience it ❤️ plus there’s no greater gift to a new parent than sleep lol

03/05/2026

Inquire now if you’re curious about/ interested in doula support for your next baby!

02/26/2026

There’s three main reasons why my back up doula would be called in to my clients birth: if something happens to me (like I’m physically injured or incapacitated), if two clients are in labor at the same time, or if I’m out of town when a client goes into labor.

This past week, the ladder two happened simultaneously! And I was reminded why I have TWO back up doulas that I’m eternally grateful for. Christine Rogers and Ty Roberts.

I don’t go on vacations very often, less than a week per year on average, last week was one of those. Before I left I made sure that my clients who are due in the next month have my primary back up doula (Christine)’s number, and tagged her in for the week.

A few days later, one client develops a pregnancy related complication and needs to be induced 3 weeks early. When Christine joins them for support, another client goes into labor a week early! So she tags in Ty for them.

I adore both of my back ups beyond words, and I know they’ll take excellent care of my clients. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t an anxious wreck lol. They kept me updated the whole time, and both births went very well!

Beyond taking care of my clients for me, they are also great friends and colleagues to me, we support and doula each other when we’ve had a hard birth, or need an extra brain to think through options for a client. We learn together, laugh together, and have each other’s backs! They’re the best.

Back up doulas matter, and im thankful and proud to have them as mine!

📸 unrelated baby pictured

02/12/2026

I was just watching The Resident while editing pictures, when an episode came on that had me SOBBING by the end. Like, full on ugly crying. It hit SO close to my heart, because it was about a young, healthy black mother that had a csection, and died from preventable complications while still in the hospital. Her husband, and the resident doctor, were begging the doctors and nurses for help when they noticed something didn’t seem right, and their concerns were dismissed and ignored multiple times. Until she crashed.

The United States of America has one of the highest maternal mortality rates of any developed, high income nations. Birthing a baby in the US makes you FOUR times as likely to die during birth or postpartum. And black women are an additional FOUR times more likely to die.

That’s the tragic reality, that’s why advocacy and education matter, that’s how doula support can make a difference. For everyone giving birth. Doula support improves outcomes all around, and satisfaction to boot.

01/21/2026

I just make babies THAT happy 😆 his mom was equally happy to get some much needed sleep while I cared for Baby. I truly adore when I get to spend extra time with my birth families postpartum!

01/11/2026

The charge nurse stopped me on my way out of JBER hospital the other day, “Hays, wait a second I want to talk to you!” My immediate first thought was “oh shoot what happened? What did I do?” 😬

“I just wanted to tell you how great it was working with you and you’re a really good doula!” 🥹 she continued to tell me that the night shift nurse also sang my praises before she left. She said it was really refreshing having a doula in there that worked WITH the staff, AND was advocating for the patient and coaching her seemlessly. Apparently she has had some not great experiences with a few random doulas over the years, undermining staff, being rude to them, and even one who paused the pitocin drip of the patient! 😱

That floored me, because not only is that outside the scope of practice to do anything medical, but that’s downright dangerous to the patient to touch their IV! (Pitocin can only be paused for a short time before restarting, and if paused too long you have to start over taper. It’s started very low and only increased every 30 mins until it’s at a desired affect).

Anyways, that was very humbling to hear from a nurse. And then a few days later at my clients postpartum visit, they also sang my praises and told me the daytime nurse did too!

Im so grateful that I can make a positive difference in such an important time for my clients. It truly means so much to me ❤️

📸 unrelated baby pictured

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