Precious Arrows Doula Services

01/26/2026

Snow is always better with Littles.
Stay safe and warm. It calls us to slow diwn snd make some special memories.

01/23/2026

I love it when they have to ask for your permission for a vaginal birth AFTER you have already given birth.

01/23/2026

01/23/2026

A refrigerator freezer should hold the temp for 24 hours. A deep freezer for 48 hours, but always use this test.

With a major winter storm potentially affecting dozens of states, we recognize the concerns many have about stored milk.

Updated to add: A stand alone freezer will maintain temperature for 48 hours in a power outage if unopened. A freezer compartment within a fridge will maintain temperature for 24 hours if unopened.

[Image Description] Photo of a wintery scene. Text on top reads, "Power outage? Worried about your frozen milk? Try to keep the freezer door completely shut while power is out. Once power is restored, check to see if there are any ice crystals that remain in the bags. If there are any frozen ice crystals at all, it may be refrozen." The La Leche League USA logo is below the text.

01/21/2026

# birthwithoutfear

01/21/2026

01/18/2026

"The job of guideline and policy writers is merely to recommend that something be offered.

It is up to the recipients of any type of care to decide whether or not they want an intervention, and yet it is very clear that women are not always being given the information that will enable them to make an informed decision."

This applies to every aspect of maternity care and, in fact, to health care generally.

It’s something I talk about a lot in What’s Right For Me: making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth.

We’re not going to get away from the fact that systems, including systems of health and maternity care, need rules and pathways and guidelines based on population-level evidence in order to function.

If we didn’t have somewhere to start from, there would be chaos.

But those pathways and guidelines exist to tell professionals what to offer.

As an individual who is using that system, you don’t have to follow the recommendation or pathway or guideline if it’s not right for you.

Details about my work, that book (along with my others on aspects of birth-related decision making) and more than 200 free blog posts at https://www.sarawickham.com

01/18/2026

So much good information here!