by Stephanie Freeman | Nov 28, 2020 | Parenting, Postpartum
Holding Babies I time traveled yesterday. If you were to have seen me, I would have just looked like a woman holding a baby on a glider (rocker.) It was afternoon in early November and the weather seems to be wishing itself into autumn. The sky was grayish and in the...
by Stephanie Freeman | Oct 25, 2020 | Birth, Parenting
We break apart and we are put back together So I was reading a not-birth-related-book the other day (I know, shocker) and there was a brief description by one of the characters about giving birth (of course) and I thought it was so spot on that I wanted to share it...
by Stephanie Freeman | Oct 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent
Basic Kindness and Grown Ass Adults When I was a child, one of my favorite memories was from when I was sixteen. It was winter, and, like clockwork, I was sick. So, so, sick. Sore throat, fever, stuffy nose; your basic Nyquil commercial. I was in bed surrounded by one...
by Stephanie Freeman | Sep 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, The F Word
Lately, unless people go into labor before their EDD, induction is the chef’s favorite on the birth menu. And here’s the fucked up thing. It’s never “just an induction”. It always sounds like something scary could be happening. It’s...
by Stephanie Freeman | Sep 5, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Reproductive Justice
Stephanie here. I used to have a blog called The Cranky Doula. I didn’t tell anyone about it because I was worried about seen as adversarial. Seen as anti-establishment. The irony of many doulas is we get looked at like we have “issues” with the...
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