A Mother is Born

09/28/2023

Come join me this Saturday, I will have a booth at Andover day in downtown Andover, MA from 10-4. This is a super fun event for families to have fun, shop, meet local vendors, eat good food etc. I would love to see your faces!

The Andover Chamber of Commerce, a division of the Merrimack Valley Chamber of Commerce, is pleased to announce the return of Andover Days 2022. Downtown Andover will come alive with music, entertainment, food, refreshments, community booths and so much more on Saturday, September 24, 2022 from 10 A

08/07/2023

Come join me at the Natural Living Expo this November 11 & 12. I am beyond excited to be a part of this exposition. Attending this expo almost 12 years ago greatly impacted my life. My hope is to do the same for someone else.

Let's rewrite the story of birth!!

Meet Danette Siegel an impassioned and wholistic physiological birth doula on a mission to rewrite the narrative of birth. Use self-empowerment to transform your sacred birthing experience through a whole mind, body, and spirit approach. Services include body preparation sessions rooted in the transformative Body Ready Method®, pre and postnatal coaching calls/sessions, extensive birth education, fear clearing, birth support and so much more. Visit booth #46 at the Living Expo, November 11-12 in Marlborough, MA.

06/12/2023

Check out this article I was featured in!! A Doulas Guide to Baby and Birth Fairs by Robin Elise Weiss.

Real Business Guidance for Working Doulas

06/08/2023

My amazing friend busted her butt crafting for me all last week to help me get ready for my expo debut! She does beautiful work and I am so incredibly lucky to have her.

If you have a small business, en event coming up or just need something one off, she’s your go to girl!! Check her out on her page below. And at Kim Flanagan.

06/06/2023

In case you missed me at the Inspired Birth & Baby Expo, you can still download my handout, "5 Ways to Prep your Body for Birth with a Birth Ball" here.
Not sure of how to properly choose your birth ball? I also cover that in the attached.

I am a holistic birth doula determined to rewrite the story of birth and help you empower yourself to transform your birth. I specialize in physiological birth and preparing you mentally and physically to facilitate achieving as unmedicated of birth as possible. I also aim to help you energetically....

06/04/2023

I was at the Inspired Birth & Baby Expo today. I definitely need to level up my social media game. I meant to post this earlier today and I forgot 🤦🏽‍♀️ but I’m posting it anyway to get myself out there in the meta verse! What an amazing experience for my first expo!! I felt so alive ❤️ and am filled with gratitude that I get to do what I love and am most passionate about in the whole world! BIRTH!!!

It’s not too late to enter my free virtual coaching session give away. You can find the link here.

https://www.flowcode.com/page/lakul-1670767986847

06/02/2023

I will be at the Inspired Birth & Baby Expo this Sunday from 11-4pm. Come check it out and talk birth with me!!

Connecting NH families with products, services and education that promote healthy pregnancy, birth & beyond!

03/21/2023

Something every new mother should know about breastfeeding. You body is amazing and enough, period.

for any moms wanting to breastfeed:
•your milk does not come in until 5-7 days AFTER birth. until your milk comes in you will produce something called colostrum which is enough to fill your baby up because their stomachs are so tiny.
•if your baby is wanting to nurse ALOT (even every 15 minutes) that is not an indication that your baby is starving. your baby is cluster feeding which is their way of telling your body to produce more milk & it is completely normal. LET THEM DO THIS. ITS IMPORTANT FOR YOUR SUPPLY.
•YOUR BABY CAN GET MUCH MORE MILK OUT THAN A PUMP CAN
•your breastfed baby will most likely never drink over 4-5oz at a time because your milk changes with the baby.
•pumping 2-4oz at a time is not an indication of low supply, it’s completely normal. - anything more would be considered an over supply.
this is just some of the things i wish someone would have told me when i started breastfeeding jaxson. 🤱

FB: Pearson❤️

03/07/2023

This is why I do what I do, to hold you mommas.

“I Won’t Hold Your Baby

…unless you ask me to, in which case, I will snuggle and cuddle your baby as much as you want me to.

I never ask my clients if I can hold their baby. In fact, I rarely ever touch my client’s baby if I can help it. Sounds sort of like the opposite of what you might picture of a doula, right? We must all be birth crazy, baby obsessed women who just want to cover babies in kisses and love and get an emotional high from attending births?

Not this doula.

I LOVE attending births. Call me crazy, but getting those middle of the night calls is one of my favorite parts of this job. I get to listen to someone at their most vulnerable times - the excitement, the hesitation, the nervousness of the unknown. Being able to provide some comfort, reassurance and continuity of care to the people I work with is so important to me (and them!)

Rushing off in the night, quietly getting myself ready, getting in the car and heading off to their home or hospital makes me feel like I’m on a secret birth mission that nobody around me knows about. When I arrive I fall as seamlessly as I can into the rhythm of the birth and start supporting my clients in whatever way they need most.

When the baby arrives I step aside and leave room for the new parents to discover their baby. I try and grab some photos (I’m not a birth photographer though, so keep your expectations in check!) and then I only step in if my client needs me for some reason.

Why does that matter? Why won’t I ask to hold your baby? Simply because: they are yours, not mine. I want you to be able to hold your baby as close as you want, for as long as you want without anyone interrupting that time. There will be enough people coming along in the next few hours and weeks who need to take that baby out of your arms for whatever reason, and tons of friends and family who will offer help by “holding the baby”.

Instead, I want to hold you, whether that’s in my arms, in my heart or my thoughts. By supporting and “holding” you, I don’t need to hold your baby. But if you ask me to, I would LOVE to.”

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01/23/2023

We need more midwives!! And the same goes for doulas. Did you know doulas reduce c-section rates by 39%!!!

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