Ashe Birthing Services

Ashe Birthing Services Birth and Postpartum Doula Services

03/23/2026

If you’ve got your one-hour glucose test coming up, here’s exactly what to expect 🤍

This test (often done between 24–28 weeks) screens for gestational diabetes—basically checking how your body processes sugar during pregnancy.

You’ll most likely hear people talk about the standard orange sugary drink, but did you know alternatives exist? I used , but you can even use something like jelly beans.

For the 1-hour test, you don’t need to fast. A balanced meal beforehand is best:
– Protein + healthy fat + complex carbs (think eggs & toast, Greek yogurt with nuts, etc.)
– Avoid going in on an empty stomach or eating a super sugary meal right before

If your result comes back elevated, IT DOESNT MEAN YOU HAVE GESTATIONAL DIABETES—it just means you’ll take a longer follow-up test to confirm.

How was your experience with the test and what did you use? Follow for more educational content.

02/12/2026

Did you know that we cook for our clients postpartum and also offer meal prepping?

Here is everything Ashe doula made this week for her clients:

👩🏾‍🍳 Fish tacos
👩🏾‍🍳 Slaw
👩🏾‍🍳 Braised Kale
👩🏾‍🍳 Chicken Adobo inspired goodness
👩🏾‍🍳 Morning Glory Muffins- shredded apple, carrots, nut butter, flax seeds, dried cherries, cinnamon, ginger, etc.

Who cooked for you postpartum?

Link in bio to inquire. 🫶🏽❤️

01/29/2026

This had me LMAO. Raise your hand if you be hiding from your kids. So nice when your partner gives an assist.


Rp from mrsmalloryhull

12/14/2025

So much we don’t talk about (and need to) here!

Repost :

“A song about some of the heavier things I’ve been feeling in postpartum. I felt mom guilt even writing this one, but I’ve been posting a lot of super happy content on here …So here’s a little reminder that social media doesn’t tell the full truth.

Being her mom is the greatest thing I’ll ever do. I prayed for it. I also haven’t left the house alone in 4 months. Motherhood is not all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes it’s a scary, lonely, confusing, transformative, existential rollercoaster.

I’m gonna call this one “The Death of Her Old Self” ✍️”

12/05/2025

This is not evidenced based medical care- this is coercion. You deserve better. We deserve better. This post is for awareness and information. You have rights. You are in charge. You can say no and fire them in the moment. This breaks my heart. No one should have to FIGHT for autonomy or be threatened in labor. 🙏🏽😭

Video reposted from

Unlock Your Purpose: Join the Sacred Journey to Empowered Doula Practice! 🌟 Your 11-Week Odyssey to Foundational Excelle...
11/24/2025

Unlock Your Purpose: Join the Sacred Journey to Empowered Doula Practice!

🌟 Your 11-Week Odyssey to Foundational Excellence.

💫 Our innovative hybrid training harmoniously blends perinatal expertise with ceremonial reverence.

🙏 What You’ll Discover:

📍 Immersive Kickoff Retreat (NYC Area): Hands-on mastery, altar creation, and ancestral connection rituals.

💻 10 Weeks Virtual: Modules on Trauma-Informed Care, Navigating Ego in Systems, Postpartum as Sacred Ceremony, and Birth Work as a Thriving Business. And more!

🌈 Cohort Launch: Early February 2026.

Application Closes: January 5th. Will You Answer the Call to Sacred Service?

Find the application link in our bio.

✨ The Practice and the Prayer: Reclaiming Birth as Sacred Ceremony ✨ Inspired by the African ritual of call and response...
11/17/2025

✨ The Practice and the Prayer: Reclaiming Birth as Sacred Ceremony ✨

Inspired by the African ritual of call and response, this foundational doula training honors the rhythm between ancestral wisdom and present-day practice. We believe birthwork is not just a profession—it’s a sacred calling, a continuation of the Black, Brown, and Indigenous birthkeepers who sustained our communities.

The Call: The sacred tradition of birthwork.

The Response: How we embody it through skill, advocacy, and care. If you are a BBIPOC aspiring or emerging doula ready to root your practice in justice, reverence, and evidence, your response is waiting.

Applications are open! Link in bio.

11/17/2025

Her cries are our cries. We want something different. This is not just happening in Texas- I have seen this in NYC several times over the years. We walk in ready to push and they ask for insurance or ask a million questions while they’re mid contraction. The person is pushing but they insist they need to do a vaginal exam in triage because “who knows if that’s actually the baby”. THEY KNOW.

The onus shouldn’t fall on us to demand something different but it does. The issue does not end with the firing of that one nurse. This is systemic. It is racist in nature. When will they believe us? When will they see us? Where is the real accountability to change? Every L&D floor can do better.

We may be 1 full week into 2025 but we really had to sit with and reflect on 2024. If we are keeping it 100, it was a ch...
01/13/2025

We may be 1 full week into 2025 but we really had to sit with and reflect on 2024.

If we are keeping it 100, it was a challenging year but also one of growth.

This is just a small look inside the things we are doing and have done at Ashe Birthing Services over the past year.

In 2024 Ashe:

- Served hundreds of families in NYC, over 90% BIPOC
- Won two Silver Cannes awards for our work on The Impossible Journey, an illustrative film on maternal health
- Built the capacity to build honorable data analytics program internally to track our impact in community
- Recorded and edited childbirth education series (coming soon)
- Was awarded National Minority Quality Forum's (NMQF) 40 Under 40 in Health Award
- Panelist at The United Nations General Assembly on Building Transnational Solidarity and Action Towards Health Equity: Closing the Maternal Health Gap for Women and Girls of African Descent

We cannot wait to share more about our childbirth education series (YESS it is FINALLY coming)!

Thank you all for the support, love and trust.

-Guramrit + Emilie (and the Ashe Birthing Services Team)

I have never heard this discussed and we need to. Many of us are moving in silence or whispers, but it’s really hard to ...
09/24/2024

I have never heard this discussed and we need to. Many of us are moving in silence or whispers, but it’s really hard to be in this field while also trying to get pregnant or whilst losing a pregnancy.

Holding space for others in their joy, grounded in a trust that it’ll happen for you too.

I was at a birth earlier this year when my body started releasing a pregnancy. I paused attending births now so I can do fertility treatments and spiritual work. It’s a time to radically take care of myself and accept care from people that love me.

It’s a mind f**k to try your whole life to NOT get pregnant and then for it not to happen when you *want it to or feel ready for it.

Doulas, OBs, midwives - you’re human too. You hold many identities. We all do. It’s okay to dance in them all…to be a caregiver and space holder by profession and a big baby at home. You deserve everything you need in this moment.

Sending so much love to all going through this with me,

Emilie

P.S: Ashe doulas are still taking clients lol

For our last part of our educational series, we discuss pharmacological ways to relieve pain when giving birth 🌿 Wishing...
08/21/2024

For our last part of our educational series, we discuss pharmacological ways to relieve pain when giving birth 🌿 Wishing you a peaceful and safe experience 💚

This is not an exhaustive list ;)

Onto our last part of our educational series…Ways to relieve physical pain during your birthing experience! Here are som...
08/19/2024

Onto our last part of our educational series…Ways to relieve physical pain during your birthing experience! Here are some more natural ways to ease pain 🧡

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