The Doula, Cassie

11/05/2025

One year since the birth of our sweet baby boy. It was top 3 favorite days of my life!!!! Joy is the word I think about when I look back on his birth. Thank you Lord! His birth was such a blessing and something I worked really hard for! Processing fears, surrendering so many intrusive thoughts, many hours of practice to release tension built up in my body for years! I felt in disbelief when my labor began because it was “too early”. I was prepared for close to 42 weeks but I think God allowed him to come “early” for the very lesson of not having to feel prepared to do something hard and something only God knows the outcome of. I felt very at peace with that. The to-do list hung on the wall beside where I delivered him, not a single thing marked off. Amazon delivered the water hose and wash cloths 2 hours before he came. Nothing was cleaned up. No meals prepared or groceries brought. None of that mattered when the contractions began to grow stronger and more frequent. The strength of my body working with him to bring him home! I’ll never forget the honest statement “this is hard, but so worth it” I prayed to God with my hands open wide. I believed that. And still do! There’s nothing wrong when the pain increases or back labor feels so strong. There’s nothing wrong when you cry out that you can’t do it or cling to your husband with each wave. There is a design to it all that our good Father wrote. We can surrender to birth, because He is trustworthy! And part of trusting God, is having peace in knowing that our bodies don’t always fit in to that perfect Design here on earth. Our fallen state, physically separated from God, means that things will go wrong sometimes. We will feel the intensity, we will have blood loss that’s not supposed to happen, our babies could need more oxygen than our bodies are supplying. Its points us to our need for Christ and the hope we have in heaven! Surrendering it all to the God who knows our every day before we live it, that is joy and that is peace! Success doesn’t = a certain birth outcome. Success is honoring Jesus and glorifying His strength at work in my weakness.

11/03/2025

Thank you Lord for the gift of children and family ❤️🎉 4 years old. The best of my life!

08/22/2025

Mom and dad do date night (baby boy is beside me lol)

What does a birth worker who just had a baby and moved to a different state do? Be a wife and a mom and a friend and when the time comes to serve moms and families again, do just that. There is no rushing it. There is no room for shallow relationships for the sake of attending births. I wait and meet people and form trust with my new community! And that really takes time and it’s really okay!! Trusting the Lord with it all, and eager to start again! ❤️

08/05/2025

A reintroduction feels appropriate?

Hi! I’m a Christ follower, wife, mother, sister, friend! When I have the honor of supporting mommas and families as their doula, all of those roles peek through in one way or another. I love birth and seeing the way God designed our bodies to move, stretch, and labor to bring our babies into our arms! It’s wild and intense and so very good. I don’t believe there is anything to be scared of. So many generations of women before us have told the story of it being scary and something to run away from and turn off feeling to “just get through it” and I’m hopeful I can be a small bit of change in that narrative for my daughters and the women to come in my circle of life. But I also know, women haven’t been supported how they should and deserve to be. Being held, served, and loved deeply in birth changes everything! That is what I am here for 🤍

07/31/2025

My sweet boy has been in our arms for 9 months. Almost the same amount of time he spent growing in my womb. His birth taught me that I don’t have to be “ready” for the next thing to enjoy it. I don’t have to even feel prepared to trust that God will carry me through, and give peace and joy along the way. His birth was really a gift and a lesson. We moved to Tennessee 3 months after his birth and that lesson was such a huge part of trusting God in moving and all the things that would come. Happy 9 months out, Sweet Boy ❤️

06/30/2025

I’ve been feeling like there isn’t enough time to be distracted or to dull life. Life is everything from beautiful and easy to messy and tragic and I want to feel it all to understand more of God and His love and mercy. I want to soak every inch of my children up and love my husband uninterrupted. These photos are moments that felt worthy of stoping to take a photo 🤍 I finally feel like I’m fully living these days and I feel really excited to begin serving mothers and families again. From a full cup ❤️

06/29/2025

Coming back from the social media dead and I’ve learned I really do not like it hahaha my preferred method of communication is certainly sitting across a coffee or bite to eat or even our babies and children rolling around us! However, living in a new state and coming back from a long and needed “maternity leave” from birth work, I do really value to way social media connects people who may have never crossed paths naturally! So here we are! Can’t wait to meet you ❤️

08/20/2024

07/18/2024

Baby oh baby 🩵 it’s our turn again!!! November(ish) can’t come soon enough!!!

03/09/2024

One of my best friends had her baby this week. She labored all day, slow and steady. As the evening approached she made the call and her home began to fill. In a comfortable way. With midwives, an assistant, three friends and so much love. Her in laws were in the living room occupying the oldest three kiddos. We took turns running after electrolytes, more warm water for the tub, washcloths, peppermint oil, snacks, grabbing the two-year-old, grabbing the five-year-old, taking care of all the things so dad could be right by her side. Most importantly, we sat in the awe of a birthing mother.

Right before the baby made his entrance, the midwife exclaimed comically “you have some good doulas taking care of you”. My heart SWELLED!! This was it!! This is the image all mothers deserve to have if they want it!! Calm, loved, held, carrying her through until we can no longer walk where she goes. When a mom has nothing else to worry about, her body takes her to a different place to see her baby through. So powerful, yet humbling, so beautiful to witness.

I was the only “trained” doula in the group of three women the midwife was referring too. But that absolutely did not matter. You can’t “train” for these moments. It was so organic. Just three friends caring for a mother as she labors and greets her newest child into their home.

01/03/2024

One thing I’ve learned since attending births for only a little over a year is that there is nothing quite like watching a mom come back into reality after so intentionally disappearing into herself to bring her baby forth. It’s wild every singe time! You will here “how did I do that” or “what just happened” and I laugh and cry a little because I got to witness their transformation from beginning to end. Oh how special it is. Not every birth goes this way and I feel so strongly about helping moms and family’s prepare for this once and a lifetime moment. Teaching them how to protect the space it takes to achieve and fulfill it. Birthing detached and distracted doesn’t leave room for these moments. The fight it may take (even if the fight is within your mind) is so very worth the work and effort you will need to put it ❤️