Bentley Pojo Doula Services, Fort Collins, CO (2026)

12/24/2025

rounded out our trip with Bruges and Brussels! such a magical trip with all of the Christmas lights and markets and we are so happy to be home for Christmas ❤️💚

12/21/2025

until next time, Amsterdam! ✨

12/10/2025

Running has changed the way I show up in motherhood.
Mostly because it’s taught me who I am when things feel loud, messy, and busy. It’s taught me how capable and resilient I am!

Motherhood asks a lot of us and movement is how I give back to myself.

Post inspiration from .mom.runs2 🩷

12/01/2025

Breastfeeding while training? 100% possible and the research backs it up

Quick science: moderate aerobic & resistance exercise does not reduce milk volume or harm infant growth (Dewey et al.; Pediatrics meta-analyses). Recent studies show breastfeeding isn’t linked to higher injury risk and supports individualized, supported returns to activity (meaning it can look different for everyone).

Strenuous sessions can temporarily raise lactate in milk and some babies may be briefly fussy, but infant growth and milk quality remain normal.

And above all, make sure you’re fueling! You want to protect your supply, but it’s also important to support your own nutrient stores but eating enough calories.

I personally notice a huge difference in my energy and performance when I’m not eating enough carbs as a breastfeeding runner!

You don’t have to choose between movement and milk, our bodies age incredible when we give them the support they need!

11/21/2025

We prepare for birth.
We prepare for breastfeeding.
But almost no one prepares us for weaning and how this hormonal shift can impact so many aspects of our lives.

Mood swings, anxiety, clogs, night sweats, cycle changes, brain fog… these symptoms are real and common. Understanding what’s happening can make the transition a little easier.

If you’re thinking about weaning soon (or supporting a friend who is), this carousel is your guide to what’s normal. If possible, I always recommend weaning as gently and gradually as possible, as this makes the hormonal shift a little more gradual.

For more information on breastfeeding, check out my Breastfeeding 101 course.

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03/31/2025

my postpartum recipe guide is finally here!!

I’ve put together a guide with 6 of my favorite dishes and treats created with postpartum healing and recovery in mind. You also don’t have to be freshly postpartum to enjoy them, they’re delicious and nutritious for the whole family.

The guide also includes information about principles of postpartum eating to optimize recovery in those initial weeks after birth.

I’ve put so much love and thought into this guide and am so excited to share it with you all! I have it on sale until Friday and each purchase supports my little family, so thank you in advance!

If you comment RECIPES I’ll DM you a link to my website to check it out! 🤍

03/12/2025

Birth story part 7:
That last check was at 7:16am on 12/3.
I think we all felt discouraged. Tired. Uncertain.
But I kept going.
I changed positions again, trying to bring him lower. It hurt! Another anesthesiologist came in to see if they could offer some pain relief and she was so kind. Still wasn’t able to get pain relief though.
All of a sudden I felt intense re**al presssure. I kept screaming that my butt hole hurt lol. And then I felt his head enter my birth canal. I was breathing as much as I could and told them he was definitely coming. Midwife came in at 8:11 and I was 6cm/90%/0 station. Yay, progress!!!
I was laying on my side and Jen was supporting my top leg.
At 8:51am I was 10cm.
I pushed and felt his head maneuver my pelvis. What a wild sensation!! I remember thinking, “it’s happening!!!” All the stress and fear of the last 30+ hours started to melt away.
I reached down and felt the top of his head and kept pushing.
At 9:16am on 12/3, Camden was born 🤍
He had a really tight nuchal cord (around his neck). So right that the midwife had to somersault him out (to get the cord off his neck).
I brought him to my chest and felt immediate joy and relief and love. My son! We did it.
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03/12/2025

Birth story part 6:
I promise it’ll end soon lol
We got to the hospital and I asked for the tub. My plan was to get in the tub and try cytotec. My whole birth team was exhausted, understandably lol. My midwife had been with me for about 30 hours. Brady has also been awake this whole time. I told them to sleep and I kept laboring and Beka stayed awake to support me. Contractions were about 5-6 mins apart and the cytotec wasn’t doing much.
A fee hours later, I decided to get an epidural so I could sleep. I was exhausted, mentally and physically. I thought rest might help things progress. I also decided that if I was going to get an epidural, I wanted pitocin to get things moving.
Placing the epidural went smoothly, but pretty quickly afterwards I started to feel a little off. I was lightheaded and really out of it, but I thought it was just from the exhaustion. I swear 5 different anesthesiologists came in and they kept putting medications in my IV. My blood pressure was getting too low. At one point they told me I was “bottoming out.” My blood pressure got to 82/42.
They had to turn my epidural off.
They said likely due to how depleted I was, and not having enough fluids, my body couldn’t handle the epidural.
So they turned it off, and I started to feel the contractions again. At first, it wasn’t that bad. I was able to get up and walk to the toilet and p*e and labor there for a while.
And then I regained feeling and wow it hurt!!! I remember screaming out in pain, begging for them to give me the epidural back. I sat in the thrown position on the bed and suddenly felt the urge to bear down again. My body was pushing and I got really excited! The midwife came in to check me. 4cm/90%/0 station.
Defeat.
Still only 4cm??
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03/12/2025

Birth story part 6:
Another night was upon us and the contractions were picking up. But then they would space out. Every 2-3 minutes, then every 5-7 minutes. I would feel myself inching closer to active labor mentally, the get yanked out of it as my contractions spaced out again. Physically and mentally, it was so exhausting!
I can honestly say we tried everything. Exhausted all of our options.
Then we were inching closer to midnight, 42 weeks and I was tired.
I made the call to transfer to get more tools to help induce. In this moment, I honestly felt really at peace and confident in this decision and the drive to the hospital was peaceful, other than the contractions lol.
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03/12/2025

Birth story part 4:
We decided to kind of reset at this point. I had been up all night laboring and I was exhausted and hadn’t even technically hit active labor yet (around 5-6cm). My contractions had also pretty much stopped. The castor oil didn’t work.
I decided to get some sleep. The whole team left, other than Jen (my midwife). Tyler took Raury so I could have some uninterrupted sleep. I slept from 6:30am-10am and when I woke up I was so sad. The night before felt like a dream honestly, like it didn’t even happen. Still pregnant. 41+6.
I went downstairs and Jen was sleeping on the couch. I remember feeling so grateful that was still there. It meant things would pick up, it was going to happen. I ate some food and hydrated. I tried to rest a bit more but I was pretty anxious to get things going again. I started pumping again, and then Brady and I went for a walk. At this point I was having contractions again, every 6-8 minutes or so. But they weren’t picking up. I continued with herbs and pumping—I got so much colostrum over these few days haha.
At 2:30pm, we had an acupuncturist come to the house to do cupping and e-stim acupuncture. It was really relaxing but it did nothing for my contractions.
I was trying to remain hopeful but also getting really sad and scared honestly. Why wasn’t my body working?
My midwife checked me again at 3pm. 2cm.
This is when we started having conversations about transferring for medical induction. Beka came back and so did Raury, I thought seeing her might give me some oxytocin, and it did! Beka brought in some fresh energy and encouraged me to keep trying at home. Baby was doing well and we weren’t in a rush. So we decided to exhaust every possible option at home before transferring.
We had a dance party! This was so much fun. Brady, Tyler, Beka, Raury, Jen, me, and baby. We danced and laughed and I had some intense contractions in between. The oxytocin was flowing!! I kept pumping and taking the herbs, doing all the positions. Eventually Tyler took Raury to her house so I could keep laboring.
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03/12/2025

Birth story part 3:
I got in the tub, so excited that things were seemingly processing so smoothly! But as soon as I got in the water, my contractions stopped. Remember feeling really worried. I looked at Beka and my midwife and was like “they stopped.” My midwife helped me calm down and told me to take this rest. So I did, and it felt so nice! We all rested a bit and we all needed it. I’d been going on about 12 hours of laboring, pumping, herbs, positioning, mental work.
Then the contractions came back, and with a force! They felt different with my water being broken and I felt some pressure.
From the outside, my birth team thought I was in transition. I was struggling and having a really big emotional release along with feeling the urge to bear down a bit. It was really intense and emotional there for a bit. I reached down to see if I could feeel my baby but he still felt really high in my pelvis. And mentally, I still didn’t really feel like I was in active labor. It was incredibly confusing. Raury woke up around 5am and she got to see my laboring in the tub. For those few moments they I thought this was the end, it was so beautiful. But then contractions spaced out and stopped again and I decided to get a cervical check to see if he was lower and what progress we had made.
I was 2cm, could stretch to a 4. He had finally engaged in my pelvis, but this wasn’t the news we wanted. The whole energy of the room shifted, none of us expected this. We still had a long way to go.
These photos are kind of hard for me to look at. I wanted this to be the end of my labor. The picture perfect water birth with my daughter, sister, and husband present.
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03/12/2025

Birth story part 2:
At that appointment I told my midwife I was nervous. She was reassuring that sometimes babies just need a little nudge. I said “I’m scared the castor oil won’t work.” She assured me it would—she had just had two successful natural inductions the previous month.

So at 2pm on 12/1 I drank the castor oil. The thought is that castor oil causes bowel contractions which oftentimes stimulate uterine contractions. So with tin a few hours of drinking the drink, you’re likely to have GI upset along with son cramping and contractions. When I drank it, I felt pretty icky and nauseous immediately, but then I felt fine. No cramping and no contractions. My midwife decided to come over around 4pm so we could start pumping and an herbal protocol to try to induce labor. I pumped for 10 mins every hour and took herbs as she dosed them. From here, that night is kind of blurry. Contractions started and they were pretty intense. I was also doing lift and tucks with contractions, a move to try to get baby to engage in my pelvis. I started to get into a bit of a flow but my contractions were inconsistent and not in an active labor pattern. Around 10pm I took a second dose of castor oil. This one definitely hurt my stomach! I threw up and went to the bathroom a few times lol. But I was also having bloody show and feeling some pressure, good signs!! My midwife seemed to think things were progressing, as she called (my amazing doula and photographer), my sister to be with Raury, and the assistant midwife. She also got all of the supplies out and set up the tub.
I wasn’t totally mentally present, as I was exhausted. But I was just surrendering to the contractions. But I could tell I wasn’t really in active labor, but I didn’t tell anyone that. I was second guessing myself, because maybe things felt different with castor oil. It felt like it was game time now that the whole team was coming, but my intuition told me we weren’t quite there.
But then at 2:23am after laboring on the toilet, my water broke! It was a huge pop, and gush. Clear fluid (a rarity at 41+6).
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