Danang Doula

12/09/2025

Food is FUEL for your BODY! Fuel up during childbirth!

You could go all out and make food if you have time, but you can also make it super simple!!

My favorite is banana and peanut butter. Eggs for fuel! And of course some electrolytes and water!

Some prepackaged food and drinks are helpful for the birth bag. Crackers, peanut butter, granola bar, and some coconut water or juice.

If you have a cooler, you can add yogurt or cheese. A homemade smoothie is also wonderful (with carbs, protein and fats)!

Your uterus is a muscle and it needs food and hydration to function during childbirth! Remember to fuel your body! ⛽️🔋

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Coconut water & applesauce
Peanut Butter .togo
Electrolyte drink

12/07/2025

I’ve come to find out, I’m only allowed to support women “face-to-face” until basically they get to 5cm or until she arrives at the hospital. Once they go into the labor rooms, I’ll be asked to wait outside. 😫 My heart has been aching ever since I found this out. For centuries, women have birthed with women beside them. It shouldn’t be him or her but both!

Active labor, transition and pushing is when women need the *most* support, when they need the *most* care, when they need the *most* advocacy, and just simple translation from broken English or Vietnamese to words that she’ll understand in “labor land”.

At this point, all I can do is pray for a way forward.
I see a day when women are supported throughout their whole labor and birth with both their husband and doula (by their whole team!)
I see a day when doulas, nurses, doctors and midwives are a team working together to support women through the birth and postpartum.
I can’t wait to see this day.

Photo: taken by myself from a dear friend’s birth center birth in Texas

10/09/2025

Bên dưới có bản dịch tiếng việt // Vietnamese translation below

💧 Did you know?
Soaking in warm water or taking a shower during labor can bring many benefits for mothers:

✨ Effectively reduces pain
✨ Relieves stress and promotes relaxation
✨ Creates a more comfortable and pleasant feeling
✨ Makes it easier to move and change positions
✨ Helps mothers naturally and gently cope with labor pain

This is a simple and safe method that is increasingly trusted and chosen by many mothers — making the childbirth journey more active, gentle, and satisfying.
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💧 Mẹ biết không?
Việc ngâm mình trong nước ấm hay tắm dưới vòi sen khi chuyển dạ có thể mang lại rất nhiều lợi ích cho mẹ đó:
✨ Giúp giảm đau hiệu quả
✨ Làm dịu căng thẳng, thư giãn tinh thần
✨ Tạo cảm giác thoải mái, dễ chịu hơn
✨ Dễ dàng di chuyển và thay đổi tư thế
✨ Hỗ trợ mẹ vượt qua cơn đau chuyển dạ một cách tự nhiên, nhẹ nhàng
Đây là phương pháp đơn giản, an toàn, và ngày càng được nhiều mẹ bầu thành thị tin tưởng lựa chọn — để hành trình “vượt cạn” trở nên chủ động, nhẹ nhàng và cảm thấy mãn nguyện sau khi sinh con.

10/09/2025

Amazing! Our bodies are able to birth our babies!

10/03/2025

Without the option of bathtub during active labor in hospitals in Danang (and I’m guessing no shower as well), and most homes not having a bathtub for early labor, I have been thinking about how to make births more comfortable during that early labor (at home time) or active labor (moving home to hospital time). Knowing what you know about birth, what would you add to your home or the hospital to make it more comfortable?

I have been thinking about the possibility of getting a room at a local hotel with a nice bathtub so you can get into a bathtub during early labor.

Honestly the bathtub was so essential to my first labor and I have seen it so help for others.

Would you do it?

What other non-pharmaceutical ways would you add to help women be more comfortable during early and active labor?

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09/26/2025

Intuition. Faith. Hope. Prayer. Surrender.

It’s all connected. 🙏🤲

09/20/2025

Brave.

09/12/2025

Joy 💕

09/11/2025

Courage 💕

09/11/2025

09/11/2025

Starting again … 💕

04/09/2024

Love seeing this raw pictures of a push & assisted catching! :) Way to go, Mama!