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Healing Birthwork Doula Services Molly hopes to make you feel safe, loved, and supported through your birthing journey. She aims to b

you heard it here 📣 I’m fully booked!!✨•After a few inquiries for late 2023 and early 2024, I thought I’d make it public...
08/03/2023

you heard it here 📣 I’m fully booked!!✨
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After a few inquiries for late 2023 and early 2024, I thought I’d make it public. Let me know if I can help connect you to some amazing Birthworkers here in Austin! Otherwise, if you find yourself pregnant soon…. Call me, beep me 📞

As always, perfect reminders from for life (and of course, for birth). ✨•Exhale, grow, expand, soften. •Thank you, for...
08/09/2022

As always, perfect reminders from for life (and of course, for birth). ✨
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Exhale, grow, expand, soften.
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Thank you, for your words.

Tips for staying cool while pregnant this summer 🥥✨1. Hydrate 🌊I can’t stress this enough! Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Ke...
06/10/2022

Tips for staying cool while pregnant this summer 🥥✨

1. Hydrate 🌊
I can’t stress this enough! Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Keep ice water on you at all times. Like, all times. You might as well consider the water bottle an extra limb during pregnancy. It will be your bff. (bc not drinking enough water can be one of the causes of premature labor & lower amniotic fluid)
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2. Stay busier in the mornings or late evenings & rest during the height of the heat. 🌤
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3. Become the mermaid you always wanted to be. 🐠

If you have access to a pool, go swim!! And if you don’t have access, don’t be shy about asking around to see who does. It helps you stay cool, can ease all of those pregnancy aches, and is a great way of exercising in pregnancy!
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4. Wear extra sunscreen 🧴
—getting sunburnt can drain your body of extra fluids—so don’t hold yourself back with how much you’re putting on!
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5. Popsicles & slushees. ❄️
Need I say more?
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6. Size up! ✨
Wear loose breathable clothing, and if you’re in the maxi-dress club, make sure to get some megababe to prevent chafing.
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Being pregnant in this Houston heat is no joke, but you’ve got this!!
Stay cool, friends. 🐚
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🥥 ✨ summer special ✨🥥Take 15% off of all birth support options when you book this summer 🌊•As always, I offer payment pl...
06/10/2022

🥥 ✨ summer special ✨🥥

Take 15% off of all birth support options when you book this summer 🌊
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As always, I offer payment plans and gift cards so that your community can help you pay for support!
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Only a few spots left for this year!
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📣 calling all pregnant peeps in HTX 📣 ••I support ALL births and provide empathetic, educational, emotional & physical s...
05/14/2022

📣 calling all pregnant peeps in HTX 📣
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I support ALL births and provide empathetic, educational, emotional & physical support during pregnancy, birth, & postpartum ✨

Let’s hop on a call and see what this could look like for you! All care is personalized and values your unique experience 🌟

You deserve doula care.
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Birth Preferences are important. Period. •••Birth plans get such a bad rep, and there’s a few reasons why. ☝🏻One reason ...
04/14/2022

Birth Preferences are important. Period.
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Birth plans get such a bad rep, and there’s a few reasons why.

☝🏻One reason is that birth is SO unpredictable—anyone who has given birth, been around birth, worked with birth, or helped their loved ones through the processing of birth, knows that it hardly ever goes to ‘plan’. 🌀

✌🏻Another reason is the fight for power in the birth space. I’ve seen nurses that have been handed a birth plan and roll their eyes immediately. Obstetricians and midwives have been handed birth plans and said “well, at the end of the day what matters is a healthy you and baby,” or, “we already do all of this, no need for a plan”. If anyone is unreceptive to you knowing your options and having opinions, they are unreceptive to your power in the birth space. Period. They value their knowledge more than your bodily autonomy. And that’s just a no go.

🌟Both of these reasons don’t make the process of making a birth plan pointless—in fact, they only make the making of a birth plan even more important 🌟

A good birth plan is ideally 1 page, includes contact information for your care team (partner(s) & family), your baby’s name, your preferences for newborn exams/care and after delivery, and has your preferences for all forms of birth: vaginal/pelvic , induced vaginal/pelvic , and cesarean. That way, no matter how birth unfolds, you know your options, your team knows what’s important to you, and it is easily communicated with everyone who should know. 🍇

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Birth preferences (if you’d still rather not use the word ‘plan’) are important to feel informed and establish your needs with your providers, partners, doulas, and others, *because* of (not in spite of) the fact that birth is unpredictable.
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If we are working together for birth doula support, we will build one together. But, if we aren’t, and you would like to have 1:1 mentorship in building one, you can schedule a Birth Planning Session🌟
~link in bio~
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📸: Christin Hume

If you, your friends, or family could benefit from: emotional support, unbiased educational/informational support, and p...
03/04/2022

If you, your friends, or family could benefit from: emotional support, unbiased educational/informational support, and physical support in pregnancy & birth—check out your doula support options!! Link in bio 🪴
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If you still don’t know how having doula support might make a difference in your journey, here are some common things that pregnant people experience that I can help with:
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•Feeling like you don’t know what to ask in appointments with your OB or midwife
•going down Google spirals for every new sensation you’re feeling in pregnancy
•needing someone to just process stuff with because your support network isn’t one that you want to share all of your feelings with
•being afraid of not knowing how to advocate for yourself in a hospital setting
•worrying about not being pressured to do something you don’t want to do in birth
•feeling overwhelmed with all the info that’s out there about pregnancy & birth
•honestly just feeling all the things
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(like that’s all just stuff we can cover prenatally!! It doesn’t even cover partner dynamics, physical birth prep, normalizing different experiences, preparing for postpartum, understanding your body’s changes, talking risks and benefits of ALL of your options so you can make the right decision for YOU, and anything else you may need to feel prepared for YOUR birth)
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Doula support is not just hip squeezes, counter-pressure, and cold washcloths in labor. Its also not just for a *certain* kind of birth.

🌿It’s person-centered emotional, informational, and physical care in pregnancy and labor🌿
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sign up for your free consult today!

*all plans come with a payment plan (up to 35 weeks of pregnancy) & a no-questions-asked sliding scale fee*

💌 gift card options available to add to your registry

01/01/2022

2021… a full year of a global pandemic.
A full year of pain, growth, grief, and transformations.

But it was also a year full of love, precious moments, and joy. A time of learning how to find those small moments of happiness in the chaos.

I’m so thankful that I am reminded through my work of the beauty of the human experience. I am so honored that I get to support people through their becomings.

27 babies. Over 400 hours of in-person birth support. Childbirth Education. Postpartum work. And a few shifts in my own life.

I’m excited/worried/cautious/hopeful for what 2022 brings. Let’s doula this!!

“no one ever told me” 🌾 writes: “How often do new parents say this? I see it on social media and hear it in coffeeshops....
11/15/2021

“no one ever told me” 🌾

writes: “How often do new parents say this? I see it on social media and hear it in coffeeshops. I read it in books and hear it shared on podcasts. This statement is ubiquitous with new parenthood because it is PART of rite of passages, of initiation, to encounter that which was previously unknown. You could say that every parent has something that “no one ever told” them.

Sometimes, the unknown that is faced involves elements that the new parent was truly never told or learned before because they had never encountered it. And sometimes, the new experiences WERE shared previously but the listener was not yet ready to hear it. It is difficult to hear what we are not yet ready to know. It can be through the initiation of birth and parenthood that we gain the ears to be ABLE to hear what we could not before.

If you are a new parent wondering why “no one ever told you” something that feels critical to you now, honor yourself for the wisdom you have gained through becoming someone new. Your heart and ears are able to hear different tunes now. You did not fail in preparing for your journey. This IS part of the journey.

If you are someone who works with new families and maybe worries that you’ve failed them if you didn’t tell them something or are frustrated because you DID tell them but they don’t remember, know that “no one ever told me” is a key phrase of the newly initiated. Rather than hearing it as a problem, know that it belongs and points directly to the profound initiation that has occurred.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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