Birth Strong

03/10/2026

No gentle prenatal yoga 3/10/26 due to maternity leave 🩷@ Faith Family Chiropractic

02/27/2026

This. Is. Not. Okay. It is not any providers around here, but I am seeing a trend on this theme happening more and more. Demand more, and better care, please. At the end of the day, it’s a business, trying to make money, and you are the customer. Don’t settle for someone that makes you sit down, shut up, and do as your told. That is the way abusers gain control. That is the way tyrannical dictators behave.

I will post later, but there is another obstetric practice saying you can’t hire a doula because it disrupts communication. And then a news report came out the same day that talked about how valuable doulas were in helping incarcerated pregnant women and what a value and important role doulas play including in increasing better outcomes.

When the medical/scientific community demands evidence, and there is SOLID evidence that doulas cost the taxpayer less, cost insurance less, and improve maternal and neonatal outcomes, and this evidence is rejected, there is a serious problem. The problem is not the doulas. The problem is not the birthing woman. The problem is not the birth plan. The problem is not the evidence.

We don't want your doula and we don't want you birth plan either.
But you know what we DO want??

We want you to....
**Quietly come to our facility during the hours M-F from 9-5.
**Take your clothes off and put on this institutionalized gown.
**Hold out your arm for your IV where we will inject medications to force contractions.
**Strap you to the bed with monitors.
**Bend over, and take your epidural.
**Blast the pitocin until your baby starts to fail.
**Race you to the OR for surgery.
Over the next 2 days we will poke and prod your baby, insist we feed them formula, feed you crappy food, then send you home with a little pat on your head and say, "Good girl!!"

02/25/2026

NO prenatal/gentle yoga tonight 2/24/26

01/25/2026

Congrats 🎉 to another repeat Birth Strong doula-d family on the birth on your 2nd 💖👣this weekend. You are a warrior, mama.

01/06/2026

See you for gentle/prenatal yoga tonight! 01/06/26 at Faith Family Chiropractic

01/02/2026

Happy New Year 🎊 to you all! Thank you for choosing or supporting Birth Strong and allowing me to be a part of your journeys!

And a happy BIRTHday to a sweet Birth Strong family

12/21/2025

A little holiday reminder from your friendly lactation professional 🥰 beware Christmastitis:

Did you know that rates of mastitis go up around holiday periods? Why?

It's your first Christmas with your baby. You're mega excited and so is everyone else to have this gorgeous bundle in their lives. Christmas is going to be AWESOME.

Lots of travelling around in the car visiting friends and family! And that is genuinely fabulous.

But all that travelling leads to lots of time in the car seat, and for most babies the car seat sends them to sleep. And long sleeps mean long gaps between feeds, which leads to full breasts with potential for blockages...

Then the parties, the gatherings, celebrations! Lovely right?! Yes! Except everyone wants a hold of little baby Rupert and once again he has longer stretches between feeds. And when he does come back to you he's over stimulated and over tired and only takes two minutes on the breast before he falls asleep leaving you with, you guessed it, full breasts....

Or the guests seem to think they know better than you do about baby Josie's feeding cues and tell you she doesn't need feeding, they can settle her for you. You're then stuck because you would like to feed your baby, but you don't want to upset family or the way they did things, and maybe they're right?

So your breasts don't get 'emptied' like usual and can you guess what happens next? Yep....

Maybe you're sleeping somewhere different, the bed is different, you can't quite get the angle of the feed right on this squishy mattress and the latch goes a bit dodgy, but you put up with it because you don't want the baby to cry and wake everyone. Dodgy latch leads to breast not emptying efficiently...and you know the rest.

Christmas is lovely, but for a huge amount of people it's also very stressful. Stress hormones can impact on oxytocin, which is the hormone needed to let your milk flow.

So plan ahead now to make sure this holiday season is one where you can feed whenever and wherever you need to. Be led by your baby. Don't stretch out or cut short feeds.
Listen to your body, not Auntie Denise.

🖼️ and ✍️

12/21/2025

👣 Another beautiful Birth Strong Doula Services baby greeted the world this weekend. Welcome sweet baby girl. (And another repeat family to boot) 🩷 👣

12/08/2025

I went to college the 1st time and graduated in 2007. Then I did something crazy and went back to school 15 years later for a very specialized additional 4 year degree.

Guess what just came today?!?! My diploma for 4 hard years of full-time school and simultaneous clinical placement. And graduated Summa Cum Laude. I worked hard for this!!! My guys really supported me through it. I have prayed for more safe options in S.D. and then God called me. Thank you Jesus for the bravery, ability, strength, finances, support, Holy Spirit nudge, opening just the right doors. thank you First Presbyterian Huron for the help of scholarship 🥹 121.5 midwifery credits ✅, finished 1400+ hours of clinical placement ✅ (i stopped counting), passed national NARM exam ✅, CPM granted ✅, diploma granted & official transcript ✅✅, paid $1000 licensing fee to S.D. ✅, now waiting on the state of South Dakota/FBI!!

Thank you to ALL the families that allowed me to come along side you thru your pregnancy/birth/postpartum journey!!!! Could NOT have done it without you. 🥰

12/02/2025

No prenatal/gentle yoga 12/2 or 12/9 due to kids Christmas concerts. Thank you!

11/21/2025

Another sweet baby 💙 born yesterday with Birth Stong Doula Services. This is not the 1st family who has had 3️⃣ babies that I have doula-ed 🩷🩷💙. What sweet, sweet moments we had. Thanks for asking me to be part of your story 🥰

10/29/2025

I am in 3 of the photos in this montage 🥰 can you find me?!?