Safe & Sound Births

02/28/2026

OMG THESE CLIENTS!!! Sweetest couple ever with the stinkin cutest baby girl!! That cookie cake though!! 🎂👀♥️♥️

Someone recently asked me how I can do this job where I'm always on call and missing events or losing sleep. It's not just for the births that go smoothly that keep me going, but the ones where I feel like if I wasn't there by their side, they would have felt alone & scared when things deviated from the plan.

It is so nourishing to me and cup filling to hear 'I couldn't have done that without you' or 'I don't know what we would have done without you,' or 'you are an angel.' I can't believe I get to be an angel on this Earth to people. There's nothing more rewarding to me than making sure women & their partners feel safe & heard in their labors.

Yesterday, I spoke at an event at BWMC called PEARL (Perinatal Empowerment & Advocacy with Respect & Learning) which was a program started by compassionate nurses and their amazing, forwardthinking leadership (Dr Kendra Coles) who saw how the stats on doulas (from decreasing csection rates, deceasing intervention rates, increasing birth outcomes, including reported maternal satisfaction rates, increasing breastfeeding rates, etc) and wanted to help build that relationship with doulas, providers, and nurses. Doula support changes the way birth unfolds. I'm excited to continue to partner with BWMC to help increase patient access to doula care.

Thank you to this beautiful couple for letting me be a part of your birth story. It was an honor! She literally laughed her baby Earthside with so much love and joy. They were my HypnoBirthing clients as well and it was so amazing to get to help them achieve the kind of birth they wanted!

02/27/2026

March happenings!!! The Rumina Center in Severna Park has more Milk & Cookies events!! All welcome!! Build that village and/or get some breastfeeding tips while making new parent friends. ♥️♥️♥️

02/26/2026

Feeling very sad for the women delivering at Saint Joseph/Candler Ob in Georgia. And yet grateful BWMC, Howard County, & AAMC are supportive of doulas. BWMC has an event tomorrow where I'll be speaking about trauma informed care that doulas offer. I'm on their PEARL (Perinatal Empowerment And Advocacy with Respect & Learning) committee that's goal is to inform nurses & providers of the power of doulas to improve birthing outcomes as part of their doula integration program. 💪💪❤️❤️

02/25/2026

From Amanda Lovelace's book "Break Your Glass Slippers"

This poem really made me think of pregnant bodies and how they change through the weeks & months, and then again how they change throughout the postpartum year.

Studies shows that babies' DNA stays with their mothers decades after birth. Microchimerism is where fetal cells travel through the placenta and integrate into the mother's organs, blood, and skin for years!

So, if you're ever not loving your postpartum body, remember that your baby's DNA is still in there helping you out & talk as kindly to yourself as you'd want your baby to tall to themselves. ❤️❤️❤️

02/20/2026

Unbelievably proud of this mamabear who brought her baby here exactly as she wanted- using hypnobirthing techniques for an unmedicated, powerful birth. She listened to her body and breathed her baby Earthside into dad's arms. Sweetest family ever!! And the Dad painted this!! 🤌🤌🤌❤️❤️❤️

02/18/2026

Last chance to sign up for HypnoBirthing classes starting next week!! Register today at www.safeandsoundbirths.com

02/16/2026

A labor of LOVE ❤️

02/16/2026

It is getting littttt up in this labor room listening to The Spice Girls, Hanson, & Backstreet Boys. 😂😂

02/14/2026

LOOK AT THIS MAGICAL PRINT!!! I don't offer placenta art or encapsulation (I will connect you to this lovely lady), but I creep on everyone's placenta and always offer to give a tour. Placentas are beautiful 😍

I'm so happy with how this print turned out! 😍
If you saw my last post, this print was made from the Mono-di twins placenta! So cool how it actually looks like 2 trees together!

02/12/2026

ISO pictures of pregnancy in the 70s, 80s, and 90s for an upcoming blog about documenting pregnancy through the years! I would love to use your pictures if you volunteer any! Message me ❤️❤️

02/10/2026

Excited to share I'm featured in this month's issue of Voyage Baltimore Magazine ❤️ It was fun to get to speak with them & hope it's a nice read for you!

Today we’d like to introduce you to Sarah Austin. Hi Sarah, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?I am a birth doula and childbirth educator. I became a doula before [....

02/10/2026

Don't go into labor unprepared.

If you book your spot before Valentine's Day, you'll save $50!!