by MegantheDoula | Sep 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
…unless you ask me to, in which case, I will snuggle and cuddle your baby as much as you want me to. I never ask my clients if I can hold their baby. I fact, I rarely ever touch my client’s baby if I can help it. Sounds sort of like the opposite of what...
by MegantheDoula | Sep 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
I woke up one morning, not long after having my first child, and realized that since giving birth I hadn’t done anything just for me. It felt like the person I used to be was so far away I could only see a blurred outline of her. I missed my alone time, I missed...
by MegantheDoula | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Basically, we’re all awesome. No, really. I mean that. I want you to let that sink in. Whether you’re newly pregnant, or almost ready to pop and make the metamorphosis into a mother or if you’re already in the middle of it all- up to your knees in...
by MegantheDoula | Aug 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
There’s always something out there to freak new and expectant parents out, isn’t there? The latest is mass-paranoia and hysteria regarding Huggies brand baby wipes that people are claiming have shards of glass. Scary Mommy wrote a great article about...
by MegantheDoula | Aug 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
There is one thing I know to be true in this life- birth will change you. No matter how it unfolds, no matter if it is fast or slow, joyful or full of grief, the way you expected or not, vaginally or by Cesarean. You will forever be affected and changed by the...
