Nurtured Blossoms Doula Care

One thing I've learned as a doula is to never go to a family's home with expectations on how our time will go. Instead my goal is to enter your home with a bag of many hats ready to pull them out as needed. To try my best to be what you need most in the moment.

Sometimes that means I am a chef and spend my time meal prepping nourishing food for the family or cutting up vegetables for dinner later that day taking off some of the load. Sometimes that means I spend time sipping tea or a morning coffee with mom processing how she feels her birth went and how things are going. Sometimes my time is spent pulling out my social work background and assessing how things are going, asking questions, educating, setting goals, and giving referrals to other professionals such as lactation support, pelvic floor therapists, physical therapists, pediatricians etc. Sometimes I spent my time tending to baby and the home tidying up while parents rest or mom pumps or tends to older siblings. Sometimes it includes taking a walk and chatting bout life. Every postpartum visit is different and flexible and that's one thing I love about this work.

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Greatly appreciate such kind reviews from parents! This family was so wonderful to work for I will truly miss hanging out with their sweet baby at night while his parents got much needed rest.

I'm finishing up with some wonderful families in the next 2 weeks. It's always bittersweet. I would love to get some new families on my calendar! If you are due in the next few weeks or recently had a little one and feel you could use day or overnight support don't hesitate to reach out!

As a postpartum doula one of the things I do pretty often during day shifts is meal prep for clients. That way they have some healthy meals and snacks to eat during the week. Doing this for clients has actually helped me be more proactive about meal prepping for myself and my family. One of the top picks that my kids love is energy balls. Plus they are super easy for little ones to help make! So I thought I would share the recipe! One thing I love about this recipe is it's super adaptable. You can add things as you see fit such as unsweet coconut flakes, cinnamon, vanilla extract, I've even added some pumpkin and pumpkin spice during fall.

1 cup oats
1/2 cup ground flaxseed
1/3 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter. I recommend natural peanut butter for less sugar
1/3 cup honey

Finished up an overnight with a family early this morning. Now enjoying some needed coffee and a slow morning watching a movie with my kids. I love the work that I do! How as a doula I can be there with families during some of the hardest times with a newborn, at night. Some nights it's just me with baby allowing parents to get needed rest other nights it's walking alongside parents as they navigate nighttime feeds and soothing, answering questions, sharing experiences, and letting them know they aren't doing this alone.

I love spending time meeting new parents during home consults! Today I got to meet a lovely family and set up some postpartum support for when baby arrives in a few weeks. Home consults are a great way for us to get to know each other to make sure it's a good fit, discuss your thoughts and needs for postpartum support, and it allows me to know where things are in your home before working a postpartum shift while you are tired and have a little baby. Did you know Nurtured Blossoms Doula Care provides free in-home postpartum consults?

My goal as a postpartum doula is to bring a sense of a village to you. We aren't meant to do this alone. We are meant to have support during the postpartum period. Serving Connecticut and Southern Massachusetts.

Asking for postpartum support doesn't make you needy, selfish, or too much. Instead it makes you strong, brave, in-tune and exactly the example your kids need.

So often we feel we are too much or too needy when we ask for help or support. What if we flip the script? What if asking for support means we are strong, brave, and in-tune with ourselves? What if that's the very example our kids need? That it's okay to ask for support and that example starts even when they are young.

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Let us take the stress and work off of you by giving you one less thing to worry about postpartum. We are now offering stand alone postpartum in-home meal prep services. You will be given a menu of nourishing foods to choose from such as lemon berry baked oatmeal, quinoa bowls, lactation/energy balls, baked salmon, and chicken stew. Your doula will come at their scheduled time and spend 2 to 3 hours preparing meals and storing it in your fridge ready for you later in the week. While you spend time focusing on the more important things such as resting and bonding with your family.

For about eight months you saw your OB or midwife pretty consistently leading up to birth you probably started to even go almost weekly. Family and friends ask how you are doing, how you're feeling, how baby is doing. Excited for birth. Birth comes and you see your provider a few more times leading up to six weeks postpartum. Maybe you have family that visits those first few weeks. Maybe you are even lucky enough to have family or friends that help out those first few weeks. But eventually everything turns back to normal and parent are usually left adjusting to this new "normal". The birth high wears off and your left adjusting to breastfeeding, regular night wakings, learning about this new little human while also navigating and trying to take care of yourself and the day to day chores and responsibilities. It doesn't have to be this way. We deserve better postpartum support that comes further and after 6 weeks. We deserve to have a village supporting us.

The support is out there. It just takes a matter of knowing it's there and reaching out.

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We all deserve support during the postpartum period and your baby deserves for you to have that support. Here in the US 10-20% of mothers experience some type of postpartum mood disorder. We also have the highest maternal mortality rate out of all wealthy countries. Our babies deserve better!

When we compare other countries and other women's postpartum experience we find that the countries with postpartum rituals and consistent support provided to the family their rate of postpartum mood disorders is significantly lower, almost non existent.

Every baby deserves for their family to have the support they need to thrive and be healthy.