A New Season Doula Services

12/15/2025

✨ 2026 Bookings Are Filling Up! ✨

As A New Season Doula Services continues to book into 2026, I’m preparing ahead to ensure every client receives consistent, high-quality support 🤍

With that growth, I’m looking to connect with multiple, reliable, and stable backup doulas to build a strong support network.

📍 Preferred coverage areas:
• Greensboro
• Winston-Salem
• Charlotte
(Most births are within 1 hour of Lexington, NC)

If you are:
✔ Professional & dependable
✔ Client-centered
✔ Comfortable collaborating as a backup doula

📩 Please PM me if you’re interested in meeting and discussing details.

I value relationships, communication, and continuity of care — and I’d love to build that with the right doulas as we move into the next season of growth 🌿

— A New Season Doula Services

12/15/2025

✨ Vacation Mode: ON ✨

🌿 A New Season Doula Services is officially in vacation mode! 🌿

Dec18-28th
I’m taking a short break to rest, reset, and refill my cup — because caring for others starts with caring for myself too 🤍

🌴 This Christmas, we’re heading to the Florida Keys — Marathon, FL 🎄
👉 If you were going to the Keys at Christmas time, what is ONE thing you would HAVE to do or visit?
Drop your must-see or must-do below ⬇️

📩 Messages & inquiries will be answered when available.

🤍 Current clients: you already know how to reach me if needed

Thank you for supporting rest, balance, and boundaries 💫
— A New Season Doula Services

12/15/2025

Did you have a breech babe? Are you a provider that had a breech babe? How did you get baby to turn if provider would not allow breech birth? I know my tips tricks etc but what are yours?

12/14/2025

✨ Mamas, tell me this… ✨

What’s one thing you didn’t know when you gave birth that you wish you would have known was going to happen — or could have happened?

No judgment.
No fear-mongering.
Just real, honest birth stories that help the next mama feel less alone and more prepared 🤍

Drop it in the comments ⬇️

— A New Season Doula Services
Because knowledge changes birth.

12/12/2025

Human milk is not static. It responds to the environment, including the season!!! 😮

A 2024 study published in eBioMedicine found that the types and amounts of human milk oligosaccharides change depending on the time of year (Matharu et al., 2024). HMOs are complex sugars in breast milk that do not feed the baby directly. Instead, they nourish beneficial gut bacteria and play a key role in shaping immune development 🦠🛡️

The researchers observed that during colder months, when respiratory and gastrointestinal infections are MORE prevalent, specific HMOs were present in different concentrations and patterns. These seasonal changes in milk composition were associated with measurable differences in the infant gut microbiota… meaning the bacteria living in the baby’s intestines shifted alongside the milk they received 🧬🫨

SOOOO why does this matter to us?

HMOs *promote* the growth of protective bacteria while helping block pathogens from attaching to the gut lining. Seasonal adjustments in HMOs may help infants better adapt to seasonal infection, particularly during winter when illness risk is higher ❄️🤍

In simple terms: your breast milk is season aware. It adjusts to help protect your baby when winter bugs are circulating and supports gut and immune health in ways that CANNOT be replicated by formula.

12/11/2025

What does supporting a small business look like if I don’t “need” their service? Here ya go!!! They definitely don’t “need” me but this is how they’re helping me grow!
Comment, like, share and invite!!!
My biggest fan is someone I don’t even know THANK YOU Balanced Birth Support 🥹

12/11/2025

Your doula has the physical tools and will help you with the metal ones!

12/11/2025

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Holding a sleeping baby provides comforting, predictable, nurturing touch (affective touch) that calms the baby’s nervous system, reducing stress hormones and strengthening the communication between the prefrontal cortex (PFC) (rational thought) and the amygdala (fear/emotion center). This builds a strong PFC-amygdala circuit, teaching the brain that stress is manageable and signals safety, which fosters better emotion regulation and reduces the likelihood of an overactive fear response, thereby lowering future anxiety.

🗂️How Holding Strengthens Connections:

📑Calms the Nervous System: Gentle, consistent touch stimulates the release of oxytocin and activates the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting calmness and reducing cortisol (stress hormone) levels.

📑Builds Neural Pathways: This soothing input, especially during sleep when the brain processes emotions, helps form stronger, more efficient neural pathways between the PFC and limbic structures like the amygdala.

📑Provides “Scaffolding”: A caregiver’s presence acts as external regulation, helping the infant’s immature central nervous system manage stress and build its own regulatory capacity.

🗂️How It Prevents Future Anxiety:

📑Better Emotion Regulation: A well-connected PFC can effectively “talk down” the amygdala, preventing overreactions to perceived threats.

📑Creates a “Blueprint” for Safety: Consistent positive experiences teach the infant’s brain that the world is safe and supportive, not threatening, creating a resilient foundation against anxiety.

📑Reduced Amygdala Reactivity: This early buffering effect leads to less intense fear responses and fewer “meltdowns.”

PMID: 33584178

12/11/2025

I have a personal goal set to meet by the end of the year… 500 followers and im at 350 yall!

Would you help me by inviting 1 or more if you will female friend to follow my page? I purposely only invite females as men are not interested in my birthy stuff and I get it! But would you please just go to those three little dots on the top right click invite and find 1 or 5 of your female friends and invite them PLEEEAASEEEE!

(picture of my youngest granddaughter because why not she’s the cutest baby in the world)

12/11/2025

🌿 When labor begins, it isn’t meant to be nonstop.
Your body was designed with built-in wisdom. Contractions rise… and then they fall. Intensity builds… and then your body gives you a moment to breathe, reset, and prepare.

These pauses aren’t a sign that labor is stalling —
they’re a sign that your body knows exactly what it’s doing. 💛

During those rest and be thankful stages, take advantage of the break your body is giving you:
✨ Relax your shoulders
✨ Breathe deeply
✨ Reset your mindset
✨ Let your body recover for what’s next

Birth isn’t a race — it’s a rhythm.
Work with your body, not against it.
Trust the design. Trust the process.
Trust A New Season Doula Services — Supporting you every step, every surge, every pause.

12/11/2025

ONCE C-SECTION, ALWAYS C-SECTION?

Many women believe that once you’ve had a C-section, you can never give birth naturally again. But that’s not always true.

In many cases, it’s possible to have what’s called a VBAC ( VG Birth After Caesarean). This simply means having a natural birth after a previous C-section. Whether it’s safe for you depends on a few factors like the type of cut used in your first surgery, why you had it, how your recovery went, and the kind of care available where you plan to deliver.

If your scar healed well and your doctor or midwife says it’s safe, you can plan for a natural birth next time. However, induction of labour is generally not advised after a previous C-section because the medicines used to start contractions can put extra pressure on the old scar, increasing the risk of it opening.

But if your labour starts on its own, and both you and your baby are doing well, a VBAC can be safely attempted under close monitoring.

Always discuss your options early in pregnancy so you and your healthcare provider can make the safest plan for you and your baby.

—Midwife Chiamaka

12/10/2025

I had to share this because I too was a momma that had this not knowing that it was even a “thing” just thinking it was something only I felt. It was weird and yucky feeling that I didn’t know why I had it. Knowing you’re not alone and normal has so much freedom in it!!! Make sure you talk to other mommas or professional about your feelings instead of keeping them inside sometimes there is relief from the guilt and feelings if we just be honest with someone we trust 🫶🏼 If you don’t have someone you feel comfortable talking to I’ll be that one!
You Doula momma Kat loves you 💕

I don’t think we talk about D-MER (Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex) enough.

When I was nursing my second baby, he would latch and I’d immediately feel this awful drop in my stomach. Almost like nausea mixed with panic. I’d get this wave of doom wash over me, like I was drowning or trapped, and for a few minutes I genuinely wanted to scream.

And then… as soon as my letdown was over, I was totally fine again.
Smiling. Nursing. Normal.

I had no idea this was an actual medical thing. I thought something was wrong with me. I felt horrible for having those feelings during something that was “supposed” to be beautiful.

But D-MER is REAL.
It’s not postpartum depression.
It’s not you “hating breastfeeding.”
It’s not you being ungrateful.
It’s literally a reflex, a sudden drop in dopamine during letdown that causes a wave of sadness, nausea, anxiety, irritability, or panic for just those few minutes.

If this is you, you’re not alone and you’re not broken.
Your body is doing something hormonal, not something emotional.
And it doesn’t make you a bad mom, not even a little bit. 🤍

Sometimes just knowing there’s a name for what you’re experiencing is enough to make you breathe again.