Loving Naturally Doula

01/04/2026

01/03/2026

It definitely can be like this at times for sure 🫣

12/26/2025

12/19/2025

Happy National Twins Day to all kinds of twins out there.

DiDi.
MoMo.
MoDi.
Conjoined.
Angel twins.
Twinless twins.

Twins who arrive together and change everything.
Twins who share more than a birthday, bodies, and a bond most of us can’t imagine.
Twins who shared the womb, but not the world.

Some grow up side by side.
Some grow up carrying a space only they can feel.

Every version counts.
Every story matters.

Twinhood isn’t about matching faces or matching lives,
it’s about a connection formed before birth and carried forever.

Today we honor every kind of twinhood,
earthside, and those never forgotten.

©️Momming On Empty

12/18/2025

12/13/2025

12/13/2025

I want to take a moment to speak from my heart about something that’s been really heavy for many of us in the birth world. Over the past few weeks, the term “Birthkeeper” has been circulating in the media in ways that feel painful, confusing, and far removed from its true meaning. My website is getting lots of traction due to this and people researching the meaning behind a birthkeeper.

I created my business, The Birthkeeper, in 2019, long before the current controversy with Freebirth Society and their "Radical Birthkeeper" trainings, and I did so with the deepest intention. I also worked in the birth community as strictly a birth photographer years before that. The word “Birthkeeper” comes from the teachings of Jeannine Parvati Baker, who described birthkeepers as the ones who tend to women with reverence… the ones who hold space, ground the room, honor intuition, protect sacred rhythms, and support birth in a way that is rooted in love, not clinical authority.

For the last several years, I have now seen this term represent a community of doulas, midwives, birth photographers, educators, mothers, sisters, and trusted support people. People who rise in the quiet moments, who sit with families in their most vulnerable transitions, who do the slow sacred work of caring.

Watching the media distort this term and link it to unsafe or untrained clinical practices has been devastating. Not just for me, but for the entire Birthkeeper community that has poured their hearts into serving families with integrity, respect and where we do not shame the woman for how and where her birth unfolds.

I want you to know that this is not what birthkeeping means.

Birthkeeping has never been about pretending to be a midwife or taking on medical roles without training. It is, and always has been, about presence, support, intuition, and humanity.

I’m sharing this because I care deeply about the families I serve, the community I’ve built, and the legacy of this word that means so much to so many. I trust that truth will always rise, and I’m committed to standing in clarity and integrity as this conversation continues to unfold. We don't need to attend courses that are thousands to be called a birthkeeper, nor should we only hold space for women that align with our views on birth. That is not a village mindset.

Birth will and always be unpredictable, and a mother should NEVER be shamed for how it unfolds.

Thank you for your support, for your understanding, and for continuing to honor the real meaning of a Birthkeeper.

Your love and encouragement during this time mean more than you know. 🤎✨

- Danielle

12/11/2025

This was an interesting read 🤔

As above, so below…

On about Day 15 of embryonic development, two tiny depressions form side by side.

One will become the opening of the mouth.

The other will become the opening of the reproductive system.

How wild (and beautiful) is that connection?

This artwork by the incredibly talented captures those early similarities so well.

As we grow, those connections don’t disappear:

The vagus nerve (a key player in our stress + nervous system regulation) connects the cervix to the voice box.

A web of fascia links the jaw to the pelvic bowl.

So when we talk about pelvic health, we’re not just talking about “down there.”

We’re talking about the whole system… voice, jaw, nervous system, pelvis… all communicating with each other.

Your pelvic floor is part of a much bigger story.💜

12/03/2025

11/28/2025