The Inked Doula

04/18/2026

For Real!!!!!!
Just like saying a stay at home mom or housewife doesn’t work. Say it to my face. Bring it - you’ll walk away crying.

04/16/2026

Toxic

04/15/2026

Trigger warning. R**e and su***de. In my case - in a hospital.

MEDICAL R**E!!!!!! Doula Friends. Doula’s should know this.
I truly understand if you don’t agree.
But Idc if you don’t like the term. It’s my story, and my choice of words. and I left SOOOOOOO much out in this video.
Thank you for watching.
I feel like total crap. The antibiotic is helping but I’m having a bad reaction to it. My OB is very aware. She is amazing btw. She’s been taking care of my lady business for years. My oldest son gave me a 4th degree tear. And messed up a lot in there. I was 20 and knew nothing about birth. She’s been doing her best for years! lol.

Caring for Women - Denton - Dr. Monica Popov. https://cfwdenton.com/physicians/listing

They have Drs that deliver too. She doesn’t. I think I have a “medical professional crush”. She’s that good. And she’s funny. She talks to me like I have a little knowledge. I have occasionally asked her Doula questions. I travel an hour and a half to see her. She asked me why one day. I said “When you find a good Dr you stay.” She cracked me up - she shrugged and said “fair enough”.

Back to the story. That baby, he died 18 years later, but he would almost be 24. Committed su***de in his bedroom. I walked in the next morning to get him up, he was laying right in front of me. It was a shot gun. You don’t want to know what I saw. And I’m not gonna say.
Totally different kind of pain. But I know pain. Mental and physical - this Current story about me is bad. Really bad.
I have a 3 hour radius for clients in the DFW/North Texas - Southern Ok. Texoma area.
No, I’ve never missed a birth because of that. I’ve been at it for 7 yrs almost. 2 because I was really sick. You can’t doula if you can’t stop puking and 1 because of another birth. Never because of time. And that’s not what I’m trying to discuss rn.
This was beyond horrible. So many issues. I’m really sick. And the hospital knowingly did it. They had to know. If the Dr didn’t know, he shouldn’t be a Dr. that kind of straight cath in the hospital is known to be the #1 cause of this bacteria. 5 months horrible effects - most I didn’t even mention.
Not ok.

04/11/2026

Hell yeah!
So now we have the story of Moses!!!!!
The moral - Don’t be afraid. You can change the world!

The first act of civil disobedience recorded in the Bible was committed by midwives.

Let me tell you their story.

In Exodus 1, we meet Shiphrah and Puah, two Hebrew midwives living under Egyptian oppression. Pharaoh, afraid of the growing Hebrew population, gave them a direct order: kill every Hebrew baby boy at birth.

These midwives said no.

They defied the most powerful man in Egypt. They risked their own lives to protect the babies they were called to serve. They looked Pharaoh in the face and lied to him, telling him the Hebrew women were too strong, too vigorous, that the babies were born before the midwives could even arrive.

And because of their courage, an entire generation of Hebrew boys lived. Including Moses, who would eventually lead his people to freedom.

The Bible says: “So God was kind to the midwives… And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.” (Exodus 1:20-21)

God honored their courage. Their defiance. Their protection of life in the face of authoritarian power. Thousands of years later, midwives are still fighting. Not against genocide, thank God. But against systems and policies that try to control how, where, and with whom women can give birth. We fight for a woman’s right to choose homebirth when it’s safe for her, informed consent instead of coerced interventions, bodily autonomy in birth spaces, access to physiologic birth instead of routine intervention, and the freedom to birth without unnecessary interference. We stand between families and systems that don’t always have their best interests at heart.

Just like Shiphrah and Puah, midwives today protect families’ rights to make their own choices about their bodies and their births. We push back against policies that restrict birth options. We advocate for informed consent when providers pressure unnecessary interventions. We honor women’s autonomy even when it’s countercultural. We believe that families, not institutions, should be the decision-makers in birth. This is sacred work. Not just catching babies. But protecting the fundamental right of families to choose how they bring their children into the world.

Shiphrah and Puah set the standard thousands of years ago: midwives serve families, not systems. We protect life and honor autonomy, even when authorities tell us otherwise. And just like God honored those ancient midwives for their courage, we trust that standing for families’ rights is exactly where we’re called to be.

“The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.” - Exodus 1:17

04/09/2026

SERVED!!!!!!!!!
Woot woot! Gifting 1 pro bono, home or freebirth (birth with our practitioner). Because sometimes the good doulas do win!







Even if I don’t get my money back - I still win.

04/04/2026

Rae Ann Koonce
The Inked Doula

04/04/2026

Hey Hey!

03/30/2026

Well, DFW/Texoma world doula week was last week…but in honor of I will be gifting one pro bono birth. If you are interested lmk ASAP!
Hospital, Home, Freebirth (home birth with no practitioner), Birth Center.
Let me know if you’re interested.

12/21/2025

Truth!!!!

11/10/2025

So true. My husband was so good to know that, he might not have known this specifically, but he was was so good with me.

11/03/2025

Yum yum!!!!!