Oru Kutty Community

Birth deserves softness. Families deserve joy. Community doulas show up with nurturing hands and open hearts, creating space for informed, supported, and joyful experiences. This is what it means to nurture joy—together.
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Community-based doulas provide continuous support to birthing people during labor and delivery, helping them cope with the physical and mental demands of giving birth.
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Drawing on their specialized training and lived experience to guide birthing persons through labor and delivery, community-based doulas provide emotional support and physical comfort that enhance the childbirth experience for the entire family.
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Community-based doulas have at least one commonality with the birthing person, which improves outcomes for underserved communities.
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This and other testimonials can be found here: doulamatch.net/profile/37422/joefin-peter
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📸: www.instagram.com/magnolia.fern.photography/

The first month postpartum asks everything of you—your body, your energy, your capacity to function on little sleep. What families need in that time isn’t perfection. It’s support that is steady, thoughtful, and real.
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This is what community-based postpartum care looks like:
✨ showing up with calm, grounded energy
✨ tending to the baby and you
✨ making space for rest, recovery, and actual moments of joy
Because care isn’t just one task—it’s everything that helps a family breathe a little easier.
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From diaper changes to grocery runs, from lactation support to vacuuming—none of it is “small.” It’s the kind of care that holds a household together in the most tender season.
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You deserve to recover.
You deserve to rest.
You deserve to enjoy your baby—not just survive the first month.
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If you’re moving through postpartum and need hands, care, and community—you don’t have to do it alone. Book your consult call today!
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📸: www.erindasscounselling.com/eddcreatives

Community doulas hold power by showing up where systems fall short. We hold power in shared knowledge, cultural wisdom, and the refusal to let anyone birth alone. Our power lives in advocacy, in saying the hard things, and in protecting choice and dignity. When we hold power together, we shift outcomes, reclaim traditions, and create safer spaces for every family.
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Community-based doulas remove barriers to services by meeting families where they are at physically and emotionally before, during, and after birth. In addition, community-based doulas address maternal health disparities, helping to create positive childbirth experiences and working towards improved birth and infant health outcomes.
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Drawing on their specialized training and lived experience to guide birthing persons through labor and delivery, community-based doulas provide emotional support and physical comfort that enhance the childbirth experience for the entire family.
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Community-based doulas have at least one commonality with the birthing person, which improves outcomes for underserved communities.
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This and other testimonials can be found here: doulamatch.net/profile/37422/joefin-peter
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📸: www.instagram.com/magnolia.fern.photography/

Stepping into parenthood for the first time can feel like everything all at once—tender, overwhelming, and full of questions. And in that space, what families deserve most is care that is patient, curious, and deeply attuned.
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This is what we aim to bring into every home:
✨ listening before leading
✨ learning your rhythms, not imposing mine
✨ showing up with consistency, care, and presence
Because support isn’t just about experience—it’s about how that experience is shared.
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Being trusted with your baby, your space, your early days as a family… that’s something we hold with so much intention. And being someone your baby feels safe with? That’s the real honour.
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If you’re a first-time parent looking for grounded, responsive support—you don’t have to figure it all out alone. Book your consult call today!
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📸: www.erindasscounselling.com/eddcreatives

Community doulas hold power through tender, unwavering care— in reassurance, in touch, in creating safety where fear once lived. This power is shared, multiplied through connection, and rooted in the belief that every family deserves to be held, heard, and honored.
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Community-based doulas provide continuous support to birthing people during labor and delivery, helping them cope with the physical and mental demands of giving birth.
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Drawing on their specialized training and lived experience to guide birthing persons through labor and delivery, community-based doulas provide emotional support and physical comfort that enhance the childbirth experience for the entire family.
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Community-based doulas have at least one commonality with the birthing person, which improves outcomes for underserved communities.
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This and other testimonials can be found here: doulamatch.net/profile/37422/joefin-peter
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📸: www.instagram.com/magnolia.fern.photography/

There’s no one way to do postpartum. And there’s definitely no one way to support a family welcoming twins!
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What matters is this:
✨ being met where you are
✨ being asked what you need (not told)
✨ being supported in the moment you’re actually in
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This is what community-based care looks like. It’s not just about holding babies (though yes, I will absolutely do that). It’s about holding the family—with care, flexibility, and deep listening.
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To be invited into those early postpartum days is something we don’t take lightly. Thank you for trusting OKC in such a tender season.
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If you’re navigating postpartum—especially with multiples—you don’t have to do it alone. Book your consult call today!
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📸: www.erindasscounselling.com/eddcreatives

Community doulas hold power where it matters most: in the spaces that see, hear, and honor every birthing parent.
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Community-based doulas remove barriers to services by meeting families where they are at physically and emotionally before, during, and after birth. In addition, community-based doulas address maternal health disparities, helping to create positive childbirth experiences and working towards improved birth and infant health outcomes.
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Drawing on their specialized training and lived experience to guide birthing persons through labor and delivery, community-based doulas provide emotional support and physical comfort that enhance the childbirth experience for the entire family.
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Community-based doulas have at least one commonality with the birthing person, which improves outcomes for underserved communities.
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This and other testimonials can be found here: doulamatch.net/profile/37422/joefin-peter
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📸: www.instagram.com/magnolia.fern.photography/

To mark the beginning of Community Doula Week, we would like to announce that Joefin Peter is now a CERTIFIED childbirth and postpartum doula!
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Her philosophy is that education and empowerment are liberating from oppression. So they are key to preventing abuse, harm, trauma and violence. She's shared her entire 13-year long journey as a community doula on Doula School's blog post: doulaschool.com/doula-alumni-spotlight-joefin
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This year the focus is on nurturing joy, honouring community, and holding power. To learn more, check out linktr.ee/communitydoulaweek. We are excited to continue participating in Community Doula Week 2026 (March 29 to April 5) by sharing client testimonials. Stay tuned!
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📸: www.behindthelensphotography.ca/offerings

Join us in welcoming these new members to the New West Chamber!

Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver (EFry Greater Vancouver)
Oru Kutty Community Society
Rick Alder, Realtor, Macdonald Westmar
Only Strata Snow Removal

Check out these members today! We can’t wait to see the impact within our vibrant business community.

The New Westminster Digital Christmas Cookbook is now live! 🎄📖 Produced by New Westminster Local News and Events

Tourism New Westminster is proud to support this community initiative—bringing together holiday recipes and signature dishes from your favourite New West restaurants and community members.

Why you’ll love this cookbook:
✨ Recreate beloved New West restaurant dishes at home
✨ Try festive new recipes from local chefs
✨ Support the Royal Columbian Hospital Foundation with every purchase
✨ Celebrate and uplift our incredible local culinary scene

The cookbook is now live:
👉 https://butterflynetworking.ca/christmas-cookbook-sales

Come get free self-screening kits at the last lounge & learn workshop of this summer.

Whether for your own body or to better support loved ones, this is a chance to take up space in your care.

📍Wildfires Literary Lounge (712A 12th Street, New Westminster, BC)
🗓️ Tuesday, August 12
⏰ 7:30pm to 9pm (PDT)
💻 Registration required at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/free-lounge-learn-series-tickets-1409674918629?aff=oddtdtcreator