Cassie the Birth Doula

04/07/2024

Happy 4th! Stay safe today & stay hydrated!❤️🤍💙

27/05/2024

Happy Memorial Day! 🇺🇸

18/05/2024

✨Today I graduated from UT’s College of Social Work!✨
•What an honor it is to be transitioning to this new chapter where I can fully focus on my passion - being a DOULA! I’m so grateful to Jesus for bringing me to this profession. Getting to support parents in welcoming their beloved baby, seeing baby’s first breath, and hearing their first shout to the Lord is one of my greatest joys. Each life is incredibly precious, and getting to be a small part of a person’s birth story brings such joy that words fall short. I am so excited for all the future holds! •

12/05/2024

Hoping all mothers feel loved and blessed this Sunday 🤍

23/10/2023

Breast milk is amazing!!

A photo showing droplets of breast milk fending off armies of harmful bacteria in Petri dishes is going viral on Facebook.⁣
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The photo, posted by a biology student in England, features nine Petri dishes completely colonized with the bacteria M. Luteus, except in the center, where tiny puddles of breast milk have created what looks like “moats” of protection around themselves.⁣
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The student, Vicky Green, said she had similar results with Petri dishes full of e.Coli and the dreaded anti-biotic resistant “super bug” MRSA.⁣
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“The white spots in the middle are discs soaked in two samples of breastmilk,” Green wrote in the caption of her post. “See the clear bit around the discs ― that’s where the proteins in the milk have inhibited the bacteria!”⁣
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An article from YourPediatrician.com explains how this is possible:⁣
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“About 80 percent of the cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses. Breast-fed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza, ear infections, and German measles. Furthermore, mothers produce antibodies to whatever disease is present in their environment, making their milk custom-designed to fight the diseases their babies are exposed to as well.”⁣
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What’s even more impressive is that the samples of milk in the photos came from the mother of a 15-month-old and a 3-year-old, providing further evidence that breast milk continues to protect against illness long beyond infancy.

22/06/2023

Whether you had your perfect birth story or struggled to process how labor unfolded, this podcast regarding birth perfectly puts your birth story into perspective. Give it a quick listen!! 👇🏻

Listen to this episode from Risen Motherhood on Spotify. With labor on the horizon, we want to do everything we can to prepare for a safe, healthy and stress-free delivery. But what starts as good desires for well-laid plans, can quickly become an unhealthy idol of control. We start to think that if...

22/06/2023

I’ve taken a bit of a break… while I’ve not announced it here, many of you know that I’m expected a little of my own! During the last 6 months off, I’ve completed another semester at UT, Knoxville towards my BSSW. I’ve also been working to complete the certification the paperwork for DONA. I’ll continue to post here and there, but won’t be taking clients until May 2024. I‘m happy to connect you with a referral to the amazing doulas I work alongside and send you resources. 🤍
Please keep me in your prayers through this time of preparation for my upcoming labor next month!

P.S. This photo is from a couple of months ago.. I’m much more swollen now 😄

06/01/2023

Welcoming baby girl into her birth day! Thats *3* baby girls born in one week! 🤍
Thank you everyone for the prayers this week. All mamas and babies are healthy!

03/01/2023

03/01/2023

Baby girl born this morning at 2:31 a.m. 🤍 She arrived so quickly that she beat me there!

01/01/2023

Baby girl born today at 12:29 p.m. Happy New Years and Happy Birthday little Ruth 🤍

25/12/2022

😂 so true! When in doubt, offer the breast!

🤣🤱🙌 a little breastfeeding humor for your morning

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