LunaBee Birth Services

03/25/2022

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Get connected with a community of doulas who are committed to building the skills and engaging in the personal work needed to advocate with confidence ✨

03/25/2022

As a Doula, the brokenness of the system can feel overwhelming, and the pull to use tokens and goodies to avoid conflict, to feel secure in relationships with the birthteam and to get team members “on our side”, to “like you” or to see you as a “good doula” is real and it’s strong.

However, this is “fawning” behavior that ultimately acts as a smokescreen to the real need for Doulas to feel powerful in their ability to use their voice, to speak and to facilitate productive conversations with the birth team that hold the birthing person's expectations of care centrally at all times.

Relationships in the birthroom are built upon mutual respect for the role of birthwork and for the birthing person, not upon brownies or other tokens that might have obligations attached to them. Respectful relationships and productive conversations are the goal, irrespective of whether the birthteam “likes” you as a doula or if you brought brownies.

Come back tomorrow so we can talk about how to get the community, skills, and support you need to step fully into your power as a doula 💪🏾

11/25/2021

A reminder for this Thanksgiving!!

11/15/2021

11/08/2021

I believe the parenting journey is where all things intersect. From pregnancy, birth, and every moment forward, parenting has the power to heal and change not only you, but the world we live in.

I know that might sound dramatic, but it is true. We are given an opportunity to rebuild what doesn't work for us. To create something completely new and true and beautiful in this journey.

Is it monotonous, uncomfortable, painful, and sh*tty (literally sometimes)? Yes!

But it is also sacred and joyful and light and energizing.

You are going to be transformed during this journey, so why not be intentional about what you want that transformation to look like on the other side?

Let's connect and get you equipped to grab ahold of this power and build an experience, family, life, and world that is overflowing with love, dignity, and joy.

11/05/2021

Birth demands absolute vulnerability.
Trust.
Surrender.

What do you need to feel safe enough to give yourself over to this powerful, sacred journey?

Do you need supportive providers or do you need providers that give you the information you need to make the best choices for yourself and your family?

Do you need to be in your own space?
Do you need to know that emergency medical equipment and staff is readily available?
Do you need lots of hands on management from respectful care takers or confident and skilled providers standing by only if they are truly needed?

Do you need to be surrounded by family, friends, loved ones keeping you laughing and moving through the waves or a quiet intimate space with you and your most trusted person?

Each birth is inherently unique and personal.

There are no wrong answers.

But you deserve to have the space and support you need to feel safe enough to experience the incredible power of each of your birthing experiences.

If you're not sure where to start or how to create an intentional birth experience, I know I can help. Let's connect and dig into what YOU need to have a birth experience that keeps you fully centered in your power.

11/03/2021

Productive day? Awesome!

Got “nothing” done (although, you kept yourself alive and likely other tiny humans so saying nothing isn’t really fair..)? Also awesome!

What is your body telling you? What do you actually need?

You don’t have to be “on” all of the time to be a good human, parent, partner…

Take a deep breath, give yourself grace, and stand firmly in the fact that you are epic in all of your forms and variations 💛

11/01/2021

✨What would happen if we realized we were connecting to a personal and collective power while pregnant?

✨What would happen if we birthed fully in that power?

✨What would happen if we nurtured that power during postpartum?

I don’t mean this in some girl-boss way… I mean a primal, creative, physical, and spiritual force that reshapes your identity and the way you see the world.

After having my first baby it was like a curtain was lifted and I just couldn’t unsee all of the ways the current systems work to actively disempower us all - especially as we journey into parenthood.

I felt like I could suddenly see and understand other people’s humanity so deeply after becoming a parent.

The violence and injustice and inequities in the world become so much more obvious and sharp after holding this sweet little person.

All I could think when I saw other people was “they were somebody’s baby.”

And the world tries to minimize and shame and laugh this away, but I really believe this is where we begin to tap into that collective power. This knowing - that we all began the same and should not have to earn a sense of worth and love and safety in this world.

One of my goals in this space is to help us return - again and again - to this powerful truth.

And then equip ourselves with practical skills and tools to focus this power into meaningful change for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Do you feel powerful or diminished in your parenting journey?

10/29/2021

✨I’ve got some big ideas about how to do this✨

I want every person who navigates pregnancy, birth, and parenthood to be heard and understood deeply in their needs, to be equipped with the information and tools they need to meet their unique goals and needs during this time, and utilize the transformational power inherent in building a family to grow into their most whole and healed selves.

I’m working on some awesome stuff I can’t wait to share with y’all.

Because I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of feeling like I missed the day in parenting school where they handed out the instruction manuals and group sign up sheets 😅

10/27/2021

✨CN: mental health, depression, anxiety✨

These pictures were taken on the same day. We went to the zoo and had a great time for the first bit. And then my toddler started really struggling. And as the day progressed, everything felt hard. And overwhelming. And like I was failing. And by the end of the day I was crumpled on the bathroom floor trying to fight off an anxiety attack.

This is what PMADS look like. I have great weeks, days, moments.

AND

I feel completely overwhelmed and like I am barely treading water. And it’s that thick-feeling cold water.

This week is mental illness awareness week.

Parenting with mental illness can feel impossible some days. But I’m here to say that you be a kick ass parent AND struggle deeply.

You can be healing AND hiding in the bathroom ugly-crying.

You can experience joy and gratitude AND be disappointed with how hard the reality of your parenting journey has been.

You deserve to be seen and accepted exactly as you are.
You deserve real support and tools to grow and heal and rest.

Let’s work together to create real, authentic, brave spaces to journey through pregnancy, birth, and parenthood by embracing the paradoxical beauty and struggle of it all.

Give yourself grace today even if all you can muster is a tiny drop. You’re doing a great job 💛

10/24/2021

It’s not about the mother asking for help. It’s about the community stepping into their responsibility. The mother shouldn’t have to ask.

Controversial perhaps. But these are my honest thoughts. Oh, how the postpartum world would be different if this was a thing.

But people have jobs and lives and dinners to go to and dogs to walk. We live separate from each other, our minds filled to the brim with our own needs and tasks.

Slowly, we lost touch with community. We bathe and feed our babies alone. We sit on the couch at the end because it’s all we have mental capacity to do.

It’s nobody’s fault. But it sucks.

How do we get back?