The Merrie Doula

✨Light touch during labour✨

Did you know that light touch massage releases endorphins which inhibits some of the pain messages going to brain 🤯.

*photo posted with permission of Mumma.

It doesn’t have be a full blown massage with oils and the works, a gentle head massage, hair stroking or back/arm scratches do the job nicely 💆🏽‍♀️.

Be sure to get you birth team to work and start practicing their moves on you now 😉.

Some oxytocin to help with my recovery 🥰✨❤️

Out of office ❤️.

I’ll be keep you posted as I see fit and able however emails and calls won’t be answered for 2 weeks whilst I focus purely on healing ✨

I’ve been asked, do I feel like losing my womanhood? But I don’t, because I’m more than my uterus.

I’m a wife, a mother, a friend, a doula, an employee… and by going through this, I will be better at all of those.

Sure, I’m nervous about the recovery, being away from my kids, how my body will be after and I’m weirdly sad about losing the thing that let me grow my two healthy girls.

But I’m choosing to focus on the positives. I was finished growing my family so that opportunity was never taken from me.

I’ll also have a better quality of life, less pain, less medication, less sleepless night and exhaustion from days on end of pain.

Anyways, I’m off to live in my granny un**es, oversized t-shirts and watch hours of reality TV 😉.

✨ New Blog Post ✨

This month's topic is "What is the Induction Process for Birth".

I've kept it super simple in the post, of course there are risks and benefits to everything birth related but it's important to remember that induction births can be beautiful too!