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 Matt DeVriendt | Oct 3, 2020 | Advocacy, Parenting, The F Word
A word from Matt on Safety One of the most prevalent feelings in a new father is to protect. What else could the primordial version of ourselves have to offer other than safety? Many of us are wondering, how do I keep something so fragile so safe? It’s funny, or...
by Abby Larsen | Sep 19, 2020 | Advocacy
WE ARE BACK!! I got to attend a birth the other night. That doesn’t sound super exciting to most of you, after all, I am a doula. It’s what I do. But like countless other industries that were affected by the novel coronavirus and its subsequent disease,...
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...
by Abby Larsen | Aug 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Parenting, The F Word
What We Do P. 2: The Nitty Gritty …And what we don’t do, because that is also important. We get asked what we “do” all the gosh durn time. And like Stephanie mentioned in her previous post (that I just conveniently linked for you to catch up...
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