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11/09/2025

Oop! 🫣

10/29/2025

Let’s be real—some of these will ruffle feathers 🪶 but somebody had to say it.
Birth work isn’t all crystals, candles, and gentle affirmations. It’s advocacy, sweat, boundaries, and truth.

If your doula isn’t challenging the system or championing your autonomy… are they really serving you?

💬 Drop your favorite “unpopular opinion” below.
📲 And share this with your pregnant friend who deserves a doula that gets it.

11/13/2022

Hey mama! This is your sign to get you a prenatal massage because these growing discomforts ain’t it. Love you!

10/02/2022

This doula is almost halfway through her pregnancy and feeling amazing. The weather is changing. Life has been a blessing. New beginnings and embracing the transitions. Staying positive and continuing the work I’ve been called to do!

🦋 I still have some spots open for birth clients in December.
🦋 I will be offering belly binding, and closing of the bones until mid January.
🦋 If you would like to donate for my maternity leave and postpartum journey my Venmo is Melina-Laverde. I would be eternally grateful and pray that God brings it back to you ten fold! 🫶🏽

Until then, let’s enjoy the season and welcome these precious babies!!! 💃🏽

06/21/2022

Happy first day of Summer!! Houston weather is hitting, sun is shining, kids are out on vacay, sprinklers are splashing, ohh yea, AND YOU’RE PREGNANT! No worries! Here are some great tips I give my preggos.

05/21/2022

Field trip day with our OLOH crew!

05/12/2022

Usually I do my closings between 4-6 weeks postpartum. However, we can do them beyond that. Maybe you need to release something within, maybe just give yourself a time for you or maybe you just need to thank your body for all it has done. Cerradas are deeply understanding what your body needs in that moment so that you can close one chapter and begin a new one.

Thank you for allowing me to give you your Closing of the Bones ceremony.

Doulas need doulas too. ☺️💃🏽

05/09/2022

I’d like to thank me…🤣

Happy Mother’s Day to all my mamacita’s! Thank you all for the sweet messages.🥰

Thank you God for the blessing of making me a momma to such an amazing little lady, an angel baby, and the dog mama to Taz and Koa. 🤍

04/05/2022

Traditional postpartums can look like love, catering, holding space. It can look like giving thanks to your body, embracing the newness of it, loving and who was and what will be. Gratitude for your mindset, just pausing at many moments and showing grace and people around you to help you through.

I had the absolute pleasure of partnering up with on her client to celebrate her cuarentena (40 days pp). Gracias for the opportunity to share culture and traditions with you! 🥰🙏🏽

03/22/2022

To all the doulas who listen, hold space, advocate, inform, love on complete strangers, show passion for their clients, all for more comfort, empower, brings out the confidence in others. To those who push other doulas and birth workers, the backups and the backups to the back ups. To the ones finding community, and babysitters for their own families, balance personal and business. To those who continue to learn, and grow, and share.

Happy Doula week, my friends! Make sure you get some extra loving to yourselves!

📸
🤰Mama Mary

03/20/2022

This young mama allowed me to cater her with a Cerrada, aka “Closing of the Bones.”

Many cultures in Central and South America do this as part of the healing journey during postpartum. There’s an herbal warm bath that lets you relax and helps with any inflammation. We did a Sobada that allows her to heal her womb, release any negative trauma to the body, and increase blood flow.

These practices are traditional and sacred. In my culture, we believe in aires or ailments that can come through the vulnerable and open body. We recommend staying warm, eating and drinking warm hearty foods.

Lastly, we do a belly bind that allows stability and support while the organs within come back to their normal positions.

My ancestors’ hands were truly special🙏🏽🤍

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