Kind Birth Services

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10/30/2023

Are you looking for Prenatal Yoga classes?
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10/25/2023

Hello all!
Just a quick note to let you all know that
Kind Birth Services:
-Has a little room still available for my next in person childbirth preparation course beginning Nov. 6th at Sprout Birth Center in Mountlake Terrace
-Has an updated schedule of classes for 2024
-Has availability for Mentoring
-Has some availability in my Doula calendar in 2024...
AND
-Is stocked up and ready to encapsulate!

Childbirth services and classes that will prepare families for home births, birth center births and hospital births.

08/31/2023

If there is anything I've learned as a parent it's this:
IT'S NOT A PATTERN!
Perhaps it (whatever it is) will happen for a spell, but humans grow and change, and with that, their needs will change. Sleep, nutrition, behaviors, comforts, will all change inevitably as they grow. Mine are 25 and 27, I'll keep you posted about when this changes, but I'll be honest, I'm 51 and still have a maelstrom of changes to my sleep, nutrition, behavior, and comforts...so I wouldn't hold my breath for your children to find any kind of reliable stasis.

06/26/2023

It’s so normal to feel all the ways about all the things.

My friend messaged me after I had a baby, “how are you?” her message read.

I responded,

“It’s harder than I thought, some moments I’m swept up in the beauty of motherhood, others I’m dragging myself around in a coffee-stained dressing gown with unwashed hair.

I know people say to take some time out for me, but in this season of being so needed I don’t know how.
I’m more tired than I ever imagined, though I could trace their tiny features for hours, I could watch the way a sneeze crinkles their eyes and takes them by surprise.

But I also feel a little lost at times, yet they are a seed in my bones, and I have never been more found.
Some days I sit in shadows and other’s the light fills me up inside and together we grow and grow.

My body aches, from birth, for the girl I once was, for sleep, for their scent. The shower feels like a break, though I always feel hurried.

Makes no sense, does it?

Some days I feel as if I’m not achieving much and yet I am rushed off my feet. Years can pass through these four walls in mere minutes.
My mind is all over the place, I want to press pause and yet I am already in awe of who they’re becoming.

We’re still figuring this whole thing out together, and yet it’s like I’ve known them forever. I feel a new type of wholeness, of being complete, but some days I just feel empty,

does this make any sense?

I’d love some time alone, but I am entangled in them, and yet that’s how I want it. My heart would be fumbling around in the dark without them. That’s another thing I wanted to tell you.. I’ve never thought with my heart so much, I’ve never seen so much with it either.

I’m not ready to have visitors just yet, but I miss you, I really do.
Thanks for checking in.”

But I didn’t.

Instead, I told her we were great, my baby was simply a dream, and that we couldn’t wait to see her.
Then I hit send.

Jess Urlichs
Art: Art to Remember

04/25/2023

!!! IN PERSON !!!
6 week childbirth preparation class beginning May 8th at Sprout Birth Center in Mountlake Terrace has spaces still available. See link for details!

Childbirth services and classes that will prepare families for home births, birth center births and hospital births.

03/20/2023

I spent a beautiful day playing with my amazing daughter on her 27th birthday. I couldn’t be more proud and grateful to be her mom. I look forward to every day, seeing the wonderful human she is and the wonderful impact she has on the world and our family in so many ways. I love you little bear. You make the whole world brighter and better.

01/30/2023

Lactation Fact #22: Newborns should have at least one bowel movement the size of a deck of cards everyday. Newborns let us know that they are getting enough milk by their output of bowel movements.

11/08/2022

Truer words.

and repeat.

09/28/2022

Couldn't agree more, also for Mammo appointments. Get it together.