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DMV Birth Doulas LLC, 8865 Stanford Boulevard 2nd Floor, Columbia, MD (2026)

02/04/2026

Unmedicated birth isn’t about where you give birth — it’s about how you’re supported. ✨

Whether you’re birthing in a hospital, at home, or in a birth center, an unmedicated birth requires strategy, advocacy, and preparation—not luck.

At DMV Birth Doulas, we support unmedicated births across all birth settings, because physiological birth is possible when your body is protected, your environment is managed, and your support team knows exactly what to do.

Here’s what makes the difference ⬇️
• Evidence-based pain management strategies (movement, positioning, breathwork, TENS, counter-pressure)
• Real-time advocacy with OBs, midwives, and hospital staff
• Labor pacing so you don’t fatigue early
• Interventions prevention & informed consent support
• Continuous emotional and physical presence—no gaps, no guessing
An unmedicated hospital birth requires navigation and assertive advocacy.

A home birth requires experienced, calm, and skilled support.

A birth center birth requires intentional labor flow and stamina management.

✨ The common denominator? A doula team that understands all three environments.
This is why our clients don’t just hope for an unmedicated birth—they prepare for one.

If you’re planning:
• An unmedicated hospital birth
• A peaceful home birth
• A low-intervention birth center experience
…and you want support that is strategic, experienced, and deeply intentional, your next step is a consultation.
💬 Consultations are where we build your birth strategy.
🔗 View our birth packages and learn how our labor & birth support starts at $795

📅 Schedule your consultation to discuss availability, approach, and next steps
Unmedicated birth isn’t a trend.
It’s a skillfully supported experience—and we’re here to protect it.

01/30/2026

For mothers preparing for a natural or unmedicated birth, pain management isn’t about “toughing it out” — it’s about strategy, preparation, and support.

At DMV Birth Doulas, we intentionally incorporate tools like the TENS unit (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) into our laboring strategy regimen to help support comfort, focus, and confidence during labor.

✨ The TENS unit works by sending gentle electrical pulses that help interrupt pain signals and stimulate natural endorphin release — supporting the body’s own ability to cope with contractions.
✨ When used early and intentionally, it becomes a powerful tool for mothers desiring a physiologic, medication-free birth.
✨ Combined with breathwork, positioning, movement, and continuous doula support, it allows labor to unfold with control, rhythm, and empowerment.

This isn’t random comfort — it’s evidence-informed, hands-on labor support, tailored for mothers who want to stay present, mobile, and grounded throughout birth.

If your vision includes a natural birth, unmedicated labor, or minimal intervention, our approach is designed with you in mind.

🤍 Strategic pain management
🤍 Holistic + evidence-based care
🤍 High-touch doula support

Availability is limited due to high demand.
Schedule your consultation early to secure your place.
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01/30/2026

Our availability is limited — by intention.

DMV Birth Doulas supports a select number of families at a time to ensure responsive, hands-on, and culturally centered care throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Because of our reputation and results, our calendar fills quickly.

If you’re considering working with DMV Birth Doulas, we encourage you to inquire early. Once our spots are filled, we do not overbook.

✨ High demand
✨ Limited availability
✨ Exceptional care

Secure your consultation before our next opening closes.

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01/27/2026

We are proud to announce the grand opening of our sister organization, The House of Gloria Fertility & Birth, now open in Howard County, Maryland.

Founded by midwife and reproductive health provider Nikita Wise, The House of Gloria offers holistic, relationship-based care centered on fertility, gynecological wellness, midwifery, and intentional family building. This practice was created to honor the sacred continuum of creation—fertility, birth, and legacy—through dignified, evidence-informed, and culturally affirming care.

The House of Gloria now welcomes individuals and families seeking:
• Holistic fertility support
• Comprehensive gynecological wellness
• Full-spectrum midwifery care
• Private, personalized assisted conception services

This opening marks an exciting expansion of care for our community and reflects our continued commitment to ethical, compassionate, and client-centered reproductive health services.

Please join us in welcoming The House of Gloria Fertility & Birth 🤍
📍 Ellicott City, MD | Serving Howard County & the DMV

👉 Learn more + book consultations at: www.houseofgloriafertilitybirth.com

12/15/2025

⚠️ HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE IN PREGNANCY: THEY WILL SCARE YOU… BUT YOU STILL HAVE RIGHTS.

Let’s be very clear:
The moment your blood pressure rises, the system is trained to panic — and to make YOU panic.

Suddenly everything becomes “urgent.”
Suddenly your birth plan “doesn’t matter anymore.”
Suddenly induction, epidurals, magnesium, and “we need to deliver now” become the only options they present.

But here’s the truth they DON’T tell you:
🚨 Having High Blood Pressure does NOT cancel your rights.

You STILL have the right to:
✔️ Understand every intervention being suggested
✔️ Ask for evidence, alternatives, and time to decide
✔️ Decline procedures that don’t align with your values
✔️ Request a second opinion
✔️ Stick to the parts of your birth plan that remain safe
✔️ Have a doula or advocate present who understands the system

High blood pressure is a clinical condition — not a permission slip for hospital staff to bulldoze your autonomy.
Too often, families are pressured into rushed inductions or surgical births simply because providers are afraid of liability… not because the patient is actually unsafe.

⚠️ FEAR TACTIC THEY USE:
“Your blood pressure is high — if you don’t deliver now, your baby could die.”
This statement is designed to shut down your voice.

FACT:
Most cases of elevated blood pressure require monitoring, evaluation, and individualized care, not immediate forced intervention.
And THIS is why support matters.
🖤 YOU DESERVE A TEAM THAT FIGHTS FOR YOU.

At DMV Birth Doulas, we help you:
✨ Understand your diagnosis
✨ Ask the right questions
✨ Distinguish real emergencies from hospital pressure
✨ Protect your birth plan as much as medically safe
✨ Navigate the system without being bullied

Because no diagnosis should ever remove your humanity, dignity, or choice.
Your body. Your baby. Your birth plan.
Diagnosis or not — your rights remain.

If you want evidence-based guidance, powerful advocacy, and support that won’t fold under pressure, inquire today.

12/14/2025

Your first prenatal appointment is more than a check-up — it’s your first chance to see whether this provider is the right fit for your pregnancy and birth.

Here’s what you should expect (and what you deserve) at that first visit:

✨ A provider who actually listens
If you feel rushed, dismissed, or talked over in the first appointment… it won’t magically get better later.

✨ Clear explanations of every test, option, and alternative
Your provider should never make decisions for you. They should make decisions with you.

✨ Time to ask real questions
If you feel like the clock is ticking, that’s a red flag. Your first prenatal shouldn’t feel like speed dating.

✨ A discussion about your birth goals
Hospital? Birth center? Midwife? Unmedicated? Epidural? Your provider should want to know what you want — not force you into what’s easiest for them.

✨ A sense of safety and alignment
Pay attention to how the room feels. Pay attention to how you feel.
Does this provider empower you? Or do they control the conversation?

The truth?
Choosing the right provider will impact your birth more than any textbook, birth plan, or class ever will.

If you left your first prenatal appointment feeling confused, unheard, or uncertain — you’re not stuck. You can switch care.

And if you’re ready for prenatal care that puts YOU first…

✨ We’re now accepting prenatal clients for 2026.
Click the link in our bio or send a DM to schedule your consultation.
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12/13/2025

Informed consent is not a form. It is not a quick signature. And it is absolutely not a box for the hospital to check off.
Informed consent is your legal right to understand every intervention being offered in your birth—before it happens.

You should never feel rushed, pressured, or talked over. You are entitled to answers to questions like:
✔️ What is this procedure?
✔️ Why is it being recommended right now?
✔️ What are the risks if I do it?
✔️ What are the risks if I decline?
✔️ Are there alternatives?
✔️ Can we wait and reassess?

When you don’t receive clear explanations, you cannot give true consent.
When your options are minimized or withheld, that is not consent.
When ‘hospital policy’ is used to override your autonomy, that is not consent.

Your body is not a battleground for routine procedures.
You have the right to slow the room down, to ask for clarity, and to participate in every decision being made—especially when it involves your baby, your body, and your wellbeing.

This is why doulas and midwives matter.
We protect your voice in spaces where your autonomy is often an afterthought. We ensure you understand what’s happening, why it’s happening, and whether it truly needs to happen right now.

Birth should never feel like something being done to you.
With informed consent, it becomes a process you co-author.
With the right support team, it becomes a birth you remember with confidence—not confusion.

✨ Now booking 2026 births for families who want advocacy, clarity, and evidence-based support from start to finish.
Your birth. Your body. Your decision—always

12/13/2025

Many families believe once the epidural is placed, the hard part is over… but that’s actually where most hospitals stop offering hands-on support.
That’s how births stall. That’s how cesareans increase.
That’s why you need a trained professional who knows how to optimize fetal positioning, prevent labor from slowing down, and advocate for your preferences even when your legs are numb.

An epidural should be a tool — not a trap.
Book your birth team who understands both natural and medicated labors.

DMV Birth Doulas, LLC is Howard County’s first Black-owned doula practice, proudly owned and operated by a Midwife born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland; The Birth Practice of Nikita Johnson is revered for its mastery in birthwork—where expertise meets compassion, advocacy meets precision, and outcomes speak for themselves.
With an unwavering commitment to physiological birth and holistic maternity care, our statistics tell a story of trust, excellence, and results:
🌿 94.5% unmedicated births
🌿 83.3% VBAC success rate
🌿 98.2% vaginal birth rate
🌿 Only 1.8% cesarean births
🌿 9.9% medically necessary inductions
🌿 88.9% spontaneous labors

12/10/2025

“Midwives make better deliveries than Santa — and unlike Santa, we don’t just show up once a year.”

Here’s the truth hospitals don’t like to admit:

❌ Some hospitals treat homebirth midwives terribly
❌ Some staff create hostile, unsafe environments
❌ Some units resist physiological birth and make it harder for moms to labor effectively

This is exactly why Nikita ONLY supports births at SELECT hospitals — the ones where midwives (not OBs) run the unit, and obstetricians are called in only when medically necessary.

At this birth, mama suddenly developed back labor — a sign baby was likely in the wrong position.
If this had been a typical rushed, intervention-heavy hospital environment, they might’ve blamed her pain on “failure to progress” and pushed for an unnecessary intervention.

Instead?

We went straight into the Side-Lying Release from and within minutes:
✨ Baby rotated
✨ Pain decreased
✨ Labor progressed
✨ Birth unfolded beautifully

THIS is what midwife-led, physiologic, hands-on birth support looks like.

If you want a birth team that actually understands your body, protects your autonomy, and knows how to help your baby get into the right position —

💛 Book your 2026 consultation now. Limited spots.

12/04/2025

✨ Let’s talk about alignment in birthwork. ✨

When I first started, I believed all money was good money and that I could support every mom, every baby, every family.
But with experience (and now as a midwife), I learned this:

👉 Not every client is aligned.
👉 Not every personality fits.
👉 And most negative reviews come from misunderstandings of the contract, not the care.

That’s why my consultations are now 60–90 minutes long.
We walk through every clause, every policy, and every expectation so families know exactly what they’re signing.

📌 I’m empathetic in birth…but firm in business.
Boundaries protect BOTH the provider and the family.

If something ever concerns you, talk to me directly — not 3, 4, or 6 years later. Real feedback helps IN the moment.

And here’s the truth:
Hospitals have 3.0 ratings.
Fast-food chains have 2.9 ratings.
People STILL trust them.
Small businesses deserve grace too.

✨ I’ve grown, evolved, and refined my practice — and alignment matters more than anything. ✨

Watch the video to learn how I choose aligned clients and why clear expectations matter in birthwork. ⬇️

12/03/2025

⚠️ The Truth About Cytotec (Misoprostol): What Hospitals Don’t Want You to Know ⚠️

Is your provider recommending Cytotec for induction? Read this FIRST.

Most parents are shocked to learn that Cytotec is NOT FDA-approved for medical induction or cervical ripening.
Yet it is still widely used in hospitals every single day — often without fully informing families of the risks.

🚫 Not FDA-Approved for Inducing Labor

Cytotec (misoprostol) was originally created to prevent stomach ulcers — not to start labor.
It carries an FDA black box warning, the strongest warning the FDA issues.
Still, many providers continue to use it because it’s cheap, fast-acting… and convenient for the hospital schedule.

⚠️ Serious Risks You Need to Know

When used for induction, Cytotec has been associated with:

Uterine hyperstimulation (dangerously frequent contractions)

Fetal distress

Uterine rupture

Emergency cesarean

Severe postpartum hemorrhage

These risks increase—especially when misused or given to someone with previous uterine surgery, VBAC clients, or someone whose cervix is not favorable.

❗Your Provider May Not Tell You This

Because Cytotec is cheap and predictable, many hospitals rely on it as their “go-to” induction method — even though safer, FDA-approved options exist, such as Cervidil or a Foley balloon.

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🌿 Protect Your Birth. Protect Your Baby.

Before agreeing to any induction medication, you deserve:
✔ Full informed consent
✔ Evidence-based alternatives
✔ Clear explanations of risks, benefits, and options
✔ A provider who respects your right to say NO

🎓 Want REAL evidence-based guidance?

📲 Join DMV Birth Doulas’ Medical Induction Class — where we break down exactly how inductions work, what medications are safest, and how to protect your birth plan inside a hospital system.

www.dmvbirthdoulasllc.com to register.

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