Complete Joy Birth Services

11/23/2023

Anyone else make stockwith the turkey carcass? 😋🦃🍲

11/11/2023

Fall colors and beautiful views despite the dreary skies. Yesterday at Morrow Mountain State Park.

09/29/2023

The first pic is what my life looks like lately. If people ask me what I’ve been up to, it’s essentially this “Running around.” 🏃‍♀️🚙

Moving to “the country” has been wonderful, but oh the driving! Prenatal visits, postpartum visits, births, school drop off and pick up, homeschool co-op, other homeschool events, kid activities, running errands, it seems to never end. 😅

Today after my last client visit of the week, I stopped at the park for a walk. It felt so wonderful to just and soak up the sun ☀️. I know these days of “running around” won’t last forever. It can be exhausting at times, but I am so very grateful for the opportunity to be with women as they transform from maidens to mothers, and for three kids who are becoming more grown up every day. I am so proud of all of them. And also glad to get a break here and there to just be. If you are near Charlotte, make sure you get outside today, it’s glorious out there!

09/29/2023

To me, this feels like a very birthy moon, but at this moment, my phone is quiet. 🌖

09/18/2023

It is so special to me when I receive reviews from my clients. I loved working with this family and their sweet 🌈 baby. As a doula, my goal is to meet you where you are and support your decisions 💯 because I truly believe that YOU are the expert on you and your baby. 💕

05/17/2023

It was such an honor to be Jessica’s doula for her second birth experience! Go listen to her share her birth stories on The Birth Hour podcast!

New birth story podcast episode ✨

Jessica shares 3 birth stories in episode 787! PROM and Back Labor with Epidural, a Redemptive Water Birth, and Birth Center Birth without Power

Listen to the full episode in your favorite podcast app 🎧

📷 Photo credit

05/08/2023

Shepherd’s pie in the cast iron skillet for dinner tonight. What did you have for dinner?

04/11/2023

One of the things that I love about having older kids is that they are able to do some things completely independently. Today my son mowed the grass and my younger daughter baked this homemade banana bread. Like every stage of parenting, raising two teens and a pr***en is hard, but I am truly and abundantly .



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04/06/2023

So thankful I had the opportunity to complete this training with . I learned so many valuable things that I can bring into my work with clients. ✨

03/29/2023

Have you ever heard of a before? It’s a newer term that I started hearing a few years ago. I have been quietly offering sibling doula services for awhile now but decided to make it an official offering of Complete Joy Birth Services!

As a sibling doula I provide on-call childcare for your older children when you are having a baby.

✨At a homebirth, this might look like supporting your children while they are present during your labor, or watching them in another part of the home if they do not want to be present (or you feel distracted by their presence.)
✨For women birthing in a hospital or birth center setting, a sibling doula provides care for your children in your home while you go to your birthing location. This is especially helpful for people who do not have family or friends nearby who can care for their children on an as needed basis.
✨If you are stressing about what to do with your kids during your labor, sibling doula services might be your answer! Check out my website for more info or to inquire. 😊

03/24/2023

Love this! Working with midwives who have this mindset is such a blessing.

Happy World Doula Day

Here you see a forever doula almost midwife look lovingly on the doula that that balanced, massaged, coached, breathed, rocked, fed, hydrated, grounded, and comforted mamas as I napped, charted, and midwifed….

Sometimes I envy you. Sometimes I long to be far away from such a clinical mindset and just hold space and be with the woman as you are. As I have hundreds of times. I miss it deeply.

Then I remember the 12 hours you put in prior to me getting there, the body balancing you did to help her get into labor while I finished clinic, and the way you leaned over the tub with counter pressure for over 2 hours while I sat with my sterile gloves on feeling out the room and assessing like a hawk in the sky.

And all that I feel is deep gratitude and peace. I love the midwife I am and I’ll never lose the doula I was.

To all of the DOULAS past, present, and future. Midwives LOVE you - Happy Day 🧡
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