Philly Doula CoOp

03/25/2026

PHILLY DOULA COOP Feature Doula
Becky Marx

After the birth of my first baby, I experienced first-hand the impact and gift that a supportive village can bring to a person’s birth and postpartum experience. I’ve spent over 20 years building villages in my non-profit work, but nothing I have ever done for a paycheck has matched the joy, fulfillment and love that doula work has brought into my life.

I LOVE women. I think they are the most powerful, intuitive, capable people on this planet, and there is nothing that gives me greater hope for the future than to witness them stepping into their power in the transition to motherhood; a transition that we were never meant to experience alone. When I say “it takes a village,” I mean it.

As a doula, I don’t just want to ensure that mothers are heard, empowered, and cared for during birth and after. I want to ensure that new mothers have a village, and with that, the confidence and support to hear, empower, trust and care for THEMSELVES. It is my sincerest hope that by bringing clients into my village and providing new moms with resources, skills, knowledge and confidence, they will be empowered to then pass that same knowledge and support on to other women, who then become a part of their village.

The Philly Doula Co-Op is a place where villages are made and grown. The support, love and mentorship that I have received from this group has been invaluable to me both personally and professionally, and I am eternally grateful to be a part of such an amazing group of women.

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Becky Marx, CD (DONA)

03/24/2026

YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS MAMA!

Yes you can!!

Visit us here for your prenatal, postpartum and lactation support!

www.phillydoulacoop.com

03/15/2026

OUR FEATURE DOULA Fazie Moore

Being a doula brings me so much joy. From the day I graduated college I knew that I wanted to take my kinesiology skills into helping moms create movement and love within their birthing experience. 4 years later and the love I have for being a full spectrum doula has only grown. Being able to be apart of a mother’s birth story is unlike any other fulfillment. Through the coop I have been able to meet so many wonderful families. I have allowed them to feel confident in their birthing experience as well as within their postpartum days. Helping to provide rest and recovery to new moms has been a joy when sleep seems at such a distance, being able to help them rest and recharge fills my sense of purpose. The coop is a place of love, hope and community. It has been a wonderful joy of mines to be apart of such sisterhood.

02/27/2026

OUR FEATURED DOULA ...... This is Ishanai

I truly love what I do

Being part of this beautiful Philly Doula co-op means serving families alongside doulas who care deeply about every birth story. As a certified full spectrum doula, I’m passionate about placenta encapsulation, childbirth education, and making sure parents feel informed, empowered, and supported.

Right now, my heart is especially in postpartum care — because those first weeks matter. Tiny humans are indeed my favorite, and there’s nothing sweeter than supporting families as they learn their baby and themselves all over again.

Grateful for this work.
Grateful for this Philly Doula co-op.
Grateful for every family who trusts us.

Ishanai

11/23/2025

A song from decades past

🎶what the world needs now is love sweet li e, it’s the only thing that there’s just to little of 🎶

11/17/2025

FLASH NEWS
From a medical journal
HEARTS FORMULA has been linked to 23 cases of botulism in infants NO DEATHS have been reported

11/09/2025

We all have days like this
Pooh and Piglet have the answer

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Accepting 2026 clients

10/17/2025

DOULAS RANGE IN AGE FROM BEARING CHILDREN TO PERI-MENOPAUSE TO POST MENOPAUSE

During menopause, women often deal with biological, physical, and emotional issues — to help them lose weight, clinicians need to be supportive and personalize treatment.

10/17/2025

Unsolved Mysteries & Natural Wonder Facts ·
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A baby born blue and silent. Doctors frozen in panic. Then one woman said five words that would save 50 million lives."Let's score the baby."It was 1952, inside a New York City delivery room, and Dr. Virginia Apgar had just changed medicine forever—though no one knew it yet.Apgar had dreamed of becoming a surgeon. She had the skill, the drive, and the brilliant mind for it. But in the 1940s, hospital doors stayed locked for women who wanted to hold scalpels. After being told point-blank that no hospital would hire a female surgeon, she made a choice: if they wouldn't let her into the operating room, she'd find another way to save lives.She turned to anesthesiology—and ended up exactly where she was meant to be.Working in Columbia-Presbyterian's maternity ward, Apgar witnessed something that haunted her: newborns dying within minutes of birth, while doctors stood helpless, unsure which babies needed urgent care and which would recover on their own. There was no system. No standard. Just chaos and heartbreak.So one morning over breakfast, she grabbed a napkin and designed a test. Five simple measurements: heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflex response, and skin color. Zero to ten points. Two minutes to assess. One score that could mean the difference between life and death.She called it the Apgar Score.Within a decade, nearly every hospital in America was using it. Infant mortality plummeted. Babies who would have been left to die were suddenly being resuscitated. Doctors finally had a universal language for newborn care—and it came from a woman they'd told couldn't be a surgeon.But Apgar didn't stop there. She earned a master's in public health at 50, joined the March of Dimes, and spent the rest of her life fighting for mothers and babies worldwide. She became one of the most powerful voices in maternal and infant health—the job they said she'd never have.When someone asked how she thrived in a world that didn't want her, she smiled and said: "Women are like tea bags—you don't know how strong they are until they're in hot water."Dr. Virginia Apgar died in 1974, but her legacy breathes in every delivery room on Earth. Every two seconds, somewhere in the world, a newborn takes their first breath while someone calls out a score.A score that honors the woman who refused to accept "no"—and who turned rejection into a gift that keeps on giving, one breath at a time.

10/16/2025

A monthly meeting
A little business
A lot of friendship

10/07/2025

Fabulous read

Stress Deprivation in the Perinatal Period by Michel Odent
In the framework of our cultural conditioning, stress has a negative connotation: we must avoid stressful situations. Meanwhile, in the current scientific context, it appears that stress hormones have multiple roles to play and the concept of “stress deprivation” has recently emerged in scholarly articles. We’ll look at birth by pre-labor cesarean as an extreme example of stress deprivation.

Natural childbirth advocate and obstetrician Michel Odent discusses the importance of stress for the developing baby, particularly stress in the form of labor.

09/21/2025

Adding the colors of heaven & earth to my day & yours!

with love grace & gratitude
Seena Elbaum