Mind Centered Birth Services

12/20/2025

This sweet boy was a third baby. His mother had already done two home births. And here we were waiting for baby number three and pushing up against the 42 week deadline. ➡️ this caused stress which intern made it less optimal for the labor, hormones to fully engage and allow her to go into labor. ➡️ she chose the option of trying to use the Midwife smoothie to induce labor. But also in the back of my mind, she was wondering what was going to happen if it didn’t work and she had to transition to the hospital because her midwife would be no longer legally allowed to care for her. 🙄I get it that there has to be some sort of cut off somewhere. But maybe, just maybe, we could find a way to make that less stressful to provide some sort of individualized care because we know not every woman’s body is going to deliver within a specific timeframe. So what could that look like? 🤯Maybe an extra NST to give her reassurance that she and her baby are doing fine. Because a deadline of 42 weeks also makes a mother start to doubt her own body. This story concluded with the mother going into the hospital for an induction, and once her body fully relaxed that it was actually happening that day, she went into full labor on her own without needing Pitocin. She had her baby within a few hours of contractions starting. 🌟Also, everyone commented about how much vernix was still on this 42 week baby. 🤷🏼‍♀️

12/15/2025

The in person session is class five! We go over labor positions and comfort measures. ➡️This is how partners practice and start to feel confident in how they can support their person during birth ❤️

12/11/2025

Our TVD party is always the highlight of the year!

12/10/2025

Walking is a great activity before labor starts and during labor. It’s upright and uses gravity and the walking motion makes asymmetric space in the pelvis . But when the contraction hits and you need support, what do you do? Have your partner create a table top and you lean over them for support. You can sway your hips back-and-forth, and then a support person-Doula, friend, sister, or mother can give you a double hip squeeze, or any other support in the low back or hips. Thank you you to for this great space to teach!!

12/08/2025

It matter how something is explained!! Thank you .billbchun for breaking down this information. Great repost Midwives college of Utah.

12/05/2025

🎄🎄Thank you, Anaker Chiropractic for our annual gathering of birth and postpartum workers. 10 years going strong is amazing. I look forward to it every year getting to catch up with people that I may not have seen in a while and hang out with some of my favorite peeps.🎄🎄

12/02/2025

Quantifying the association between doula care and maternal and neonatal outcomes https://ow.ly/8rmW50XzJNO

11/27/2025

I am so grateful for all of my clients! I feel blessed to be able to do this work and serve you all. I hope you all have a great day with family, friends, and good food.🦃

11/22/2025

11/13/2025

This birth was a journey, as many are, and so I’m gonna give a shout out to another Doula, Erica Evans, that I had following me and was part of Jenna’s journey! She is featured in the third and fourth photo giving some double hip squeezes for the client. New doulas are sometimes able to shadow births early on in their career to boost their skills. Erica has some great instincts and I can’t wait to see what she does.

11/10/2025

We love an upright laboring position for gravity, of course! ➡️Upright positions, help, baby move lower into the pelvis, facilitated by the movement and gravity. This stand supported position also allows her to sway her body and have great connection with her partner. 😜Partners also have to prepare for those stronger contractions when she really needs a stable support to hang onto. 😀She might just drop it like it’s hot 🔥🔥 all of a sudden, so be ready!