This Sacred Motherhood DFW Doula Services

This summer, get it on your calendar, spots are limited ✨

Bringing life into the world is a mind, body, spirit shift. The way we approach this short season can set us up for strength and vitality in the years to come.

In my experience, the more I yield to an infant just needing proximity and closeness, and throw out schedules, rigid structure, or unrealistic routines, the easier it is to figure out life with baby outside the womb.

My goals for myself in the early postpartum are: reintegrating my body and self WITH my new baby, ensuring success nursing, and moving out of the pregnancy and birth phase with as much gentleness as possible.

These goals require foregoing other things: the pressure to entertain guests who don’t want to help or make me feel uncomfortable, trying to do everything on my own/independently, getting ready/leaving the house before I am healed and ready, to name a few.

Postpartum is vulnerable and can feel very difficult with the hormonal and body shifts alone.

Please give yourself time to go slow, ask for support from friends and let people into your mess who want to love and serve you. 🩵

Life these days 💙

Same. But Different

You look so like he did as a baby. Same dark hair. Same knowing brown eyes. But you're your own you too. You seek out jazzy patterns in the same way he coveted light fixtures. It's like going back in time. Where everything is the same. But different.

I'm still that same old creature of habit but I'm no longer googling ‘Daily routines for a five-month-old’. Routine found us this time, from the order your brother ended up bringing to our lives. Our days are dictated by the school run.

I'm just as smitten this time, but I'm not tracking your age in weeks. I can barely keep track of the months. I'm no longer living at the whim of the Wonder Weeks app. I know that we are only ever days away from a storm cloud, but I am less weathered by it than I once was.

I'm not watching the clock this time. No more nap battles. I'm clocking eye-rubs and ear-pulls instead. I put you in the carrier, pop the kettle on and we sway to what will one day be your favourite songs.

I'm playing all the same games. We dug out all his old toys. The eggs are out again, and the stacking cups. Those and the lift-the-flap books. Only, most of the flaps have been ripped clean off, now. Much less mystery. It feels the same, but different.

I'm singing all the same songs but I've not been to a baby group yet. I'm not wondering how to fill the hours. The days fly by in a blur of feeding, changing, washing, cooking, cleaning. Before we know it, it's school pick-up time.

I'm still waking in the night. But there's no failed cot transfers. No checking my phone in the wee small hours. You sleep with me now. I go to bed when you do. I am frequently awake but well rested. It's the same. But better.

I'm still wrestling baby crocodiles into sleepsuits. But I've less patience this time as I'm simultaneously coaxing your big brother into pyjamas. I've all the same good intentions. Still love you just as much. But I am grumpier. More overwhelmed. Shouting comes more easily these days. I am the same, but different.

Sure, I'm disappearing in plain sight again. But I'm no longer gripping tightly onto the remnants of a former life. l'm jumping head first into this (now familiar) abyss.

Because I know I'll re-emerge.

The same.

But different.

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Words by: Mother Truths

Words taken from my new book:
'STRETCHED: all the feels from second-time motherhood' Available to buy here: http://linktr.ee/mother_truths

Art by:
https://www.instagram.com/elinabraslina?igsh=MWwxeWM2d2F1M25jMg==

Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful women who have invited me into their motherhood journey. Supporting you as you prepare to birth your babies is an honor I’ll never hold lightly!

May you always see yourself with the strength, love, and resilience I have had the privilege to witness!

Grateful everyday to have my babies to shape and love. And each year deeper into motherhood learning how much more I need God to help me be the mom they deserve ❤️‍🔥

Thank you for your hands of service and your unseen sacrifices 🫶🙏

What a special year it was welcoming my sweet baby into my arms! I’m thankful I took a step back and said “no” where I needed so I could show up for myself, my family, and the clients I did take on with a full cup to pour from. I had the honor of walking with 4 women into their birth and postpartum journeys and 3 families doing childbirth education. Easing back into attending births after my own in March was the greatest gift and blessing. These women opened up their homes to me and my baby during the prenatal period, inviting me to family dinner, to getting to know their spouse, other children, and sometimes even their own parents. This work is inherently vulnerable and ideally relational, and I’m so grateful they trusted me with that honor. Calling these women friends, not just clients, is so meaningful! I look forward to each unique birth and family coming in 2026. Here’s to a few more days before I’m back on call again ❤️

I’m believing slow is fast in my journey into birth work. There will be a season for me to take on many more births a month, serve in a student capacity and one day attend my own midwifery clients. But this is the season of growing, learning, serving AND doing it in a sustainable way for my family. So in 10+ years I have many more left in me 🤟🫶😘

Thankful for the growing friendships with wonderful local doulas and birth workers as well. I am loving all of the collaboration, not competition with other women serving women.

There are few, if any, experiences in a woman’s life as transformative as giving birth. Why not take radical responsibility for choosing your preferences, education, and preparation with confidence and wisdom?

Join us for a 5-class series where we equip you with the mental fortitude to embrace labor sensations and birth your baby in peace and power!

You will walk away understanding the hormonal progression of labor, with tools for your birth partner to support you well, and a knowledge of common pregnancy and newborn interventions.

With proven techniques that help you embrace the power of your body and baby working together, you will feel practically and emotionally ready for this transformative experience!

Class begins January 7, 2026 🙏

DM to reserve your spot, space is limited! 🩵