Seeing the person you love working hard to cope with the intensity of labour as she works to bring your baby earth side can be a powerful, and at times overwhelming, experience. Here are 10 practical things you can do...
Seeing the person you love working hard to cope with the intensity of labour as she works to bring your baby earth side can be a powerful, and at times overwhelming, experience. Here are 10 practical things you can do...
Are you planning a waterbirth? Is the bathtub in your house too small or too uncomfortable to labor in? Thinking about buying or renting an inflatable birth pool? Here are 3 reasons you'll love a Passages Birth Pool.
One Love Float, “Calgary’s friendliest float studio”, is owned by Treeka Drake, master herbalist, holistic therapist, intuitive healer, and all around incredible human being...
I love finding out that a client will be birthing at South Health Campus (SHC). Built from the ground up with family-centered care as a guiding principle, they are changing the face of maternity care in Calgary...
Mother's Day. Simple enough, right? It's a day to honor the mothers in our lives. But it seems that as I get older, this day has become a complex mix of celebration, remembrance, and grief.
I am blessed to be able to honor the mothers of my heart this day. The strong and wise women whom I have chosen to welcome into my life and who have walked along side me on my journey. We have shared laughter and tears, great times and damn crappy times. They have imparted wisdom, forgiven foibles, shored up my confidence, and led by example. I am blessed because this list of women in my life is long...
This was the tail end of a text conversation I had recently with a dear friend of mine who was (at the time) in her last few weeks of midwifery school. I threw that last comment out without really thinking about it, until I hit send and re-read it.
What she said really did sound like my life. In fact, most of my adult life could be described that way: "Lots of interest and zero time".
That never really bothered me before. But these days, it's kind of getting under my skin...
As a doula, I love supporting women through transition. If you have never seen transition, here's what it can look like:
Adding childbirth classes to our birth doula services seemed a natural progression but it took some time to find an approach that fit our values and our vision.
Here's why we settled on Birthing From Within.
If you've been hanging around for a bit (especially on our Facebook page) you may have noticed that Christine and I are a bit dorky...geeky...nerdy. We love sci-fi/fantasy and we both have our respective fandoms. Christine is waiting for her letter from Hogwarts and I'm a Browncoat through and through...
If your baby is estimated to arrive sometime this month, you may have felt a little bit concerned when you first did the math - we all know how much it sucks to have a birthday close to Christmas. But have no fear! Since Christine and I both celebrate our birthdays within two weeks of Christmas, we thought we would compile a list of reasons that having a birthday close to Christmas actually rocks...
