Soul Purpose Doula

These two were the definition of what being a team is!

A beautiful baby boy was born 09/25 and I don't think I've ever seen so much familial support fill a hospital room.

What's better than being at a clients birth? Postpartum visits where you get to hold the baby after 🧡😭

The quality from iPhone to android is never good lol

• Sweetest little side profile of baby 💙

• Cooking up some delicious soup for momma bear

• Weighing baby with momma's own scale at home

Postpartum visits like these are exactly what's needed as we head into the fall season. What better way than making soup to ring in the fall season? (Even though its 3 weeks away lol) September 1st is really when fall starts 😅

From one birth to the next, all in the span of 24 hours 🤪

This momma exuded strength, perseverance, determination, patience, SO much patience, and just an overwhelming amount of love. Both to herself, her husband and baby, and to me!

Every day my clients teach me something new about myself and about human dynamics, and their strength and courage. I am deeply grateful for everyone I am blessed to serve in some way or another.

One of the bigger placentas I've had recently. This one yielded about 150 pills and we decided to leave the umbilical cord natural, as well as the print 💙

Recent review 🩷

Hogar Materno - A Cuban maternity home

The maternity home, staffed with an around-the-clock nurse, houses expectant mothers with high-risk pregnancies. There are approximately 209 maternity homes throughout Cuba, one per each municipality. Many of the residents are admitted for malnutrition, one of the deleterious effects of the 40-year-old United States economic embargo against Cuba. Cuba addresses this issue by providing 2,800 calories per day for every pregnant woman, prenatal vitamins and three meals a day for maternity home residents (Bernal 2001). Other common high-risk factors of the women at Hogar Materno were diabetes, anemia and twins. The residents, ages 22 to 32, ranged in gestational age from 20 to 39 weeks. Once labor begins, the women are driven 40 minutes to the hospital for delivery in Pinar del Rio, the closest neighboring city (Noda Gonzalez 2001).

I urge women and men to take their health, their habits, and their diets seriously, especially a few months before conceiving. Quite a few of the placentas I've seen lately have not been in the best shape.

Some of what I've seen that constitutes as less than optimal: calcifications and cysts, smaller than normal placentas, quite a few hematomas, and the placentas are compromised and causing issues such as IUGR, high blood pressure and Pre-eclampsia.

Some of the ones pictured below caused issues such as pre-e with some calcification that could be felt as gritty or having a rough texture

A sweet little baby was born over the weekend. 🩷

Packed my bag and snowboarding gear so I wouldnt freeze to death if it snowed as much as all the freaks said it would 😂 Watched MMA once I got there, and had a beautiful little baby be born later that morning

Knoxville mamas

Postpartum support matters more than most people realize. The days and nights after birth are when your body is healing, your hormones are shifting, and you feel completely sleep deprived.

I’m a certified birth & postpartum doula offering holistic daytime and overnight postpartum care for families who want real support, not just someone to hold the baby.
My care includes newborn support, maternal recovery, nourishment, light household help, and education so you feel steady and confident when I’m not there.

If you’re pregnant or know someone due soon, message me or comment below 🩷