Doula Melina

Doula Melina I'm a DONA certifying doula serving the Jacksonville area. I support, comfort, and empower women through their pregnancy and birth. Habló español.

07/15/2025

Eating well and nursing on demand is the best way to keep your supply up.🌸

05/25/2025
11/11/2024

Good advice. Labor and birth are work. That's why it's called labor!

08/02/2024

¡Riega la voz!

Nacer Midwifery y Dialis Camacho les place anunciar que nuevamente estaremos ofreciendo nuestros servicios a las familias participantes de Medicaid.

Queremos poder servirles a ésta comunidad tan importante para nosotros y que puedan recibir y cuidado prenatal personalizado y respetado.

Si deseas más información sobre nuestros servicios y como funciona con Medicaid, no dudes en contactarnos para coordinar una orientación.

¡Esperamos poder servirles pronto!

Nacer Midwifery - Dialis E Camacho, LM.

07/16/2024

Could not be more true. Sorry not sorry. 🙌🏻

04/20/2024

It’s back! For all our younger aerialist, we will be hosting a mommy and me aerial session with some tumbling, aerial hammock play, and more. Parent/Guardian must be present to assist the child through the obstacles

🗓️: Saturday May 25th
💰: $30 price includes adult and child
⏰: 9:30am-10:30am

Link is in bio ( Click on Workshops on our page)

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04/08/2024

This!

I didn't want to have any vaginal checks for a few reasons. Firstly, because I wanted to believe in my body's ability to birth, and I didn't want someone else's assessment of my 'progress' to affect how I felt things were going.

I didn't want to risk being made to feel I was 'only' xxcm dilated, as if that was bad and I was somehow failing - and I had read about how cervical dilation can change very quickly - both ways!

It's not an indicator of how long labour might carry on for, and therefore isn't something I wanted to know.

People checking your cervix doesn't benefit you - it doesn't change your birth - it doesn't affect how long it takes (apart from maybe making it take longer!). It's something that hospitals do for their own benefit, so they can put you in a box and make educated guesses about how far along you are.

But different people can get different measurements. Two midwives might get a totally different figure, and if a hospital says you 'can't' do something until you are xxcm dilated then that could really mess up your flow.

I don't think people are meant to put their hands inside us while we're birthing. It is uncomfortable, it inhibits your natural movement, it disrupts oxytocin flow, it means you have to lay down or try to stay still, and it introduces infection risk. Maggie was in NICU for 11 days after aspirating meconium just before birth - they believe due to her getting an infection after we'd transferred to hospital - *after* I'd had vaginal exams.

Essentially it gets in the way of physiological birth, and doesn't actually help you at all 🩷

Having these interventions and uncomfortable procedures is something we want to make sure *we* want - not just accept as standard.

My birth with Rosie is a brilliant example of how no-one can tell you how 'far along' you are. They were just about to deliver her surgically with no idea she'd be born ten minutes later!

Hospitals want to plot you on a graph, but birth doesn't work like that. It doesn't progress along a straight line in predictable patterns. You can make an informed choice 🩷

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Jacksonville Beach, FL

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