by Marcie Hadley | Mar 14, 2020 | birth
COVID 19 Updated 5/02/2020 There have been some very reassuring changes in the past week. With any problem, knowledge can empower even with viruses such as COVID-19, the newest Coronavirus. Doulas are now back as your second support person at Vanderbilt.Some hospitals...
by Marcie Hadley | Jan 25, 2020 | birth
Have you ever wondered what it would look like to have a postpartum doula? You may be surprised! It looks different for every family because every family is uniquely different! A postpartum doula has been trained and read stacks of books, but her intuition is one of...
by Marcie Hadley | Jun 22, 2019 | birth
How does an imbalance of power in labor happen? It is pretty common in the birth world for women to ask if their care provider will “allow” them preferences. A few examples are: Will I be allowed: movement during labor and pushingto wait on spontaneous...
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by Marcie Hadley | Apr 27, 2019 | birth
Smoky Mountain Hike When the doulas need replenishing Why doula’ing the doulas? As clients know, sometimes labors can be quick and intense. Sometimes, they can be long and intense. Sometimes, labor can be traumatic. Other times, everyone present is floating on...
by Marcie Hadley | Jan 30, 2019 | birth
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order-Carl Jung The Postpartum Period Melody, a new mom who had just given birth, described her postpartum experience as difficult: She had a Cesarean section and described lifting as a...
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by Marcie Hadley | Feb 24, 2018 | Birth Stories
My newest lil man has arrived!!!! Such an exciting time! I’m gonna try to get all my thoughts into one place (mainly for my own reference/memory keeping hahaha — you’ll have to excuse the punctuation — i had to type it in ‘thought’...
by Marcie Hadley | Feb 17, 2018 | Birth Stories
On this page, we share birth stories our clients have written and sent to us. Permission is given to share these birth stories and pictures. We hope you find them as inspirational as each of our clients have been to us. Welcome sweet baby boy. Your mamma is so...
by Marcie Hadley | Nov 8, 2017 | breastfeeding, doula, Newborn Care, Postpartum care
Help! I just pushed a baby out of my body and breastfeeding my newborn is making that look easy! This is common. Breastfeeding is well…it involves a learning curve and is possibly the hardest, most rewarding learning curve ever. We want to encourage you...
by Marcie Hadley | Sep 5, 2017 | birth, doula, family, Postpartum care
Review of When The Bough Breaks I recently had the opportunity to view a documentary on postpartum depression and psychosis. As a doula who provides support to women during the perinatal period, the information in this film provided a great starting place for the...
by Marcie Hadley | Jun 13, 2017 | birth, labor
Your Unique Female Pelvis I had the opportunity to attend an interesting midwifery class discussing the 4 different female pelvic shapes. Each woman is endowed with her own unique shape – variations of these 4. The midwife giving the discussion was quite...
