If you have had a baby before, you know that checking in to the hospital and answering all of their intake questions takes approximately 4 hours, or, hopefully, all of the time you’re there before you’re actively pushing your baby out. If you plan to do most of your laboring at home, or if you’re…

I am passionate about many things, but car seat safety is not one of them. Fortunately, I have a few car seat-enthusiast friends from whom I have learned much. They have taught me four important lessons:     1. “I didn’t ride in a car seat until I was 7 and I’m still alive!” is…

While you wait for new and exciting posts from me, please enjoy my most-read posts from Fargo Doula: 10. “I Don’t Want to Tell Everyone I Got an Epidural!” 9. The Sane Parent’s Guide to Car Seats 8. The One Million Questions They Ask You When You Arrive at the Hospital in Labor 7. Lidocaine…

Some of my doula clients go into birth hoping/planning to avoid an epidural. Then one of three things happens: They don’t get one. Labor goes on for 24 (or 48) hours and they can hardly stand up anymore, let alone deal with contractions, so they decide to get an epidural. Labor starts, and they change…

When our family moved from Fargo to the Twin Cities last year, I was sad to shutter Fargo Doula, but a little excited to leave behind the constantly-on-call lifestyle. After years of attending a couple of births a month (or, a few times, a couple of births in a day), I looked forward to doing…