Mind Centered Birth Services

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!

11/08/2025

I love teaching my in person class and we always have so much fun. The laughter is infectious. It started as they were rocking in the door with all of their bed pillows tucked under their arms one after another. “It’s an adult slumber party” one of the husbands said! Then while demonstrating a position to labor on their sides with all the pillows, we joked that it actually was turning into a slumber party. One mom looked so comfy lying on her side with all the pillows that she commented that she was going to fall asleep.

11/06/2025

Decades of research have shown that round-the-clock fetal monitoring does not reliably predict fetal distress, and experts say it leads to many unnecessary surgeries. But it’s still used in nearly every birth in the U.S. because of business and legal concerns, a New York Times investigation found. https://nyti.ms/3WF7yLx

11/06/2025

Postpartum visits are always so joyful. I love hearing the birth story from their perspective. ❤️Love hearing how accomplished they feel. They get to look at the photos I took and that gives them a different point of view. This client talked about being in the zone so she didn’t have any real perception of time passing.

11/06/2025

11/05/2025

Treasure Valley peeps! Send me your suggestions of spaces that I could teach my child education in. Prefer centralized location that people coming from East BOISE and Caldwell could easily get to. But I’m open to all suggestions. DM or text me please.

11/01/2025

🌟Busy doula week! 🌟 there was of course loss of sleep, lots of position changes, many many many double hip squeezes, one super cute toddler-curious about everything, one induction that went faster than expected, one superfast homebirth with a dad and doula catch. Two of the births were November due dates ❤️.

10/28/2025

🌟🌟I’ve had many clients not realize the vital role a birth room vibe can be during your birth!❤️. So take a little time setting up your birth space and if you’re getting to the hospital in advanced active labor, then make sure you have someone assigned to this role. As your Doula, it’s something I do usually in the first 30 minutes. Low lighting, using either candlelight or string lights creates a softer experience. When burning at the hospital, turn off as many of those bright lights as you can. Add music, things from home that bring you comfort, and maybe some aromatherapy. ✅Make the space your own!

10/14/2025

🤯Moving the body before labor leads to an easier labor!
I have all my clients and class participants move through a series of stretches and movements to help prepare the body. ✅One of the benefits is creating space for baby to hopefully move into a more optimal position before labor begins. If baby is in a better position when the labor starts, that should lead to a shorter labor. If baby is not, then the uterus will work harder to try and help turn a baby. Other things that are helpful are taking daily walks, seeing a chiropractor, and paying attention to how you’re sitting and sleeping.