Posts by Ayesha Chatts

Predicting how we will experience and endure birth and postpartum is near impossible, but planning for both is. The power of a (birth) plan If you are an expecting parent, it is likely you have a birth-plan – a careful piece of research on the setting and support you want during your labor and birth.…

It takes a village. As doulas, we say this a lot and, as postpartum parents, we seldom hear it enough. Loud and clear are social expectations for our recovery from birth and our adjustment to life with a newborn. From how we should look in our new skins to ways we must love the babe(s)…