Empowered Beginnings Doula

10/19/2025

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Get Your Copy of Training for Two on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3VOTdwH📧 Download our free birth prep circuit guide with six exercises to prepare your body for...

10/12/2025

What’s your favorite birth position?

08/28/2025

This is another book by Sara Wickham filled with great resources to assist in making informed decisions regarding induction of labor.

When is it better to induce labour than to let a woman’s body or baby decide the best time for birth? What are the pros and cons of waiting and of being induced? What about after the due date? When the baby is thought to be bigger than average? When the woman is older? If she had IVF? Or when her....

08/28/2025

This book is an extremely valuable resource for those who want to learn more about birth. Sara explains the innate process of birth and how modern society places emphasis on birthing babies at a set date rather than when the baby is ready to be born.

Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more “at risk” categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed...

08/28/2025

This podcast is about the birth of my son at 43 weeks and five days.
Longer births aren’t the norm in our society. There is a lot of fear and stigma surrounding pregnancies longer than 40 weeks.

My son was born perfectly healthy.

I did not have a lot of support at the end of pregnancy. Almost everyone in my life was convinced I was doing the wrong thing. But I didn’t give in to pressure and followed through with my plan of having an unmedicated birth.

Please have a listen.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fw6qcQPgm5jbCTDkatW0y?fbclid=IwVERDUAMchw5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHqXVH8fPohQB0APvXIC3NxWWV-_7fLKqVn0zHbKZDlApgDC6HEtk_EXEnMqW_aem_kq03SS8OLYcCtLZodyYALA

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