More than tips and to-do lists — this is a soft landing place. A mix of stories, reflections, poems, playlists, and gentle invitations back to yourself. Rooted in evidence, intuition, and transformation, this offering is for anyone who believes birth is a rite of passage and wants to explore it with reverence and curiosity.
There’s been a noticeable national decline in people seeking out childbirth education.
And honestly, we totally understand why.
Information is everywhere. You can Google any intervention. You can watch videos about labor positions. You can read breakdowns of pain management options. You can look ...
One of the core messages we share around here is the idea of stepping into your power in birth. We truly believe that if every person gave birth fully in their power, not only would they be transformed, but the ripple effect would transform the world as well.
But often the word power carries a co...
There’s a point in pregnancy where you realize you’ve read a lot… but you still don’t necessarily feel ready.
You’ve listened to the podcasts.You’ve followed the birth accounts.You’ve saved the reels.
But information alone doesn’t create confidence.
Integration does.
Confidence comes from underst...
Unless you're new around here, you know that we believe birth is not a medical event, but rather a transformative rite of passage that sometimes requires medical intervention.
A birth that requires medical intervention does not "skip" the rite of passage piece - far from it.Â
It can seem though (...
This week we want to share some new research that was recently published by the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology about the "pushing stage" of labor.Â
In most hospitals, it is standard practice to encourage active pushing with each contraction once it has been determined that the cerv...
This is a topic that is passionately debated, and it’s usually framed as if there’s one correct answer: Is home birth safer, or is hospital birth safer?
If you look at the research, you'll see that the outcomes between planned home birth and hospital birth are actually very similar, which surpris...
This week inside The Birth Prep Circle, we’re zooming out and looking at the history of birth — not in a textbook way, but in a “how did we get here?” kind of way.
For most of human history, birth happened in community. It was overseen by women, supported by other women, and held within matriarch...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we’re taught to approach care in pregnancy, especially in hospital settings, and how transactional it can start to feel.
We’re encouraged (rightfully) to ask about C-section rates, interventions used routinely, or how a provider might support the kind of ...
There’s something about the turn of a new year that naturally invites a pause.
Not in a “new year, new you” kind of way — but in a quieter, more reflective way. A sense that things are shifting. That maybe the way we’ve been doing things isn’t the only way. Or that we’re being asked to look at fa...
When most people plan a hospital birth, there’s an assumption that once you walk through those doors, the responsibility shifts.
The providers are in charge now.They know the policies.They’ll tell me what to do.
And while providers absolutely bring experience, training, and care — that mindset ca...
I’ve been rereading Mindful Birthing by Nancy Bardacke, CNM, and it reminded me of something we don’t talk about enough in birth work:
What pain actually is.
Most of us grow up experiencing that pain means something is wrong.Pain is usually connected to injury, illness, or danger — and our brains...
We talk a lot in the Birth Prep Circle about “trusting yourself,” but this phrase can feel vague or even frustrating if you don’t know what it really means. It can also feel loaded, especially in a birth culture that sometimes uses the phrase “trust your body” as if it guarantees a particular out...
More than tips and to-do lists — this is a soft landing place. A mix of stories, reflections, poems, playlists, and gentle invitations back to yourself. Rooted in evidence, intuition, and transformation, this offering is for anyone who believes birth is a rite of passage and wants to explore it with reverence and curiosity.
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