Mind Centered Birth Services

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!

10/02/2025

🩷It’s your baby!🩷 So many times I see the Dad, or Partner and sometime the Mom, hanging back while the newborn exam is going on because they think that they might interfere with the process. 👍Let me tell you that if they need you to move a little bit, they’ll let you know. But you are absolutely allowed to be right in there because your baby knows you. 🥰➡️Your voice is the second most common voice to them and it is so soothing!

09/30/2025

Were you told nipple pain and damage were normal while breastfeeding and your nipples just needed to “toughen up”? Whoever told you that does not understand basic anatomy. Nipples, are made from elastic, erectile tissue (the same tissue from a cellular level as the pen*s!) They are designed to erect and evert with stimulation and shrink back down after feeding. They physically CANNOT callous. They can crack and bleed and blister. They can have skin slough off. They can get infected. Some can become desensitized or used to stimulation with time. But they can NEVER “toughen up”. If you have a calloused nipple, I would see a dermatologist or breast specialist ASAP

Babies mouths have two areas: the hard, bony palate up front (including where the teeth will go), a.k.a. the danger zone, and the soft palate at the back of the mouth just in front of where that little hangy downy thing is, a.k.a. the safe zone. One of the reasons a nipple erects, everts, and stretches is to help to get it in the safe zone

When a baby is latched correctly, the nipple tip stretches back to where the palate is soft, this the tongue massages the nipple to express milk. If baby has a shallow latch, the tongue pinches the nipple tip against the hard roof of the mouth and the friction causes damage. This also happens when there is a tongue tie. Instead of the middle of the tongue massaging the nipple, the middle of the tongue is anchored to the floor of the mouth and the tongue tip flicks the nipple, or the middle of the tongue where the restriction is pinches the nipple against the bony palate

Nipples are perfectly designed to withstand breastfeeding because of their anatomical design Other than temporary tenderness in the first few days, there should be no pain. Except when your baby shark is teething and bites you. But that’s a different post