If you are facing an induction, make sure to check out these great tips to help make the process as smooth as possible!
7 Tips for Being Induced
Two Doulas are Better Than One
Two is always better than one: two cups of coffee after a long night, two more kisses, and two doulas to provide continuous and complete birth support! Read more about our team approach here!
Protocols Regarding Releasing a Patient’s Placenta
Understanding the policies for having your placenta released to you by your birthing location is an important step in preparing for birth. Read more about those policies here!
Placenta Salve
Having a placenta salve is a wonderful way to have a topical balm made with organic beeswax, nutrient coconut oil, calming lavender essential oil, and your own placenta!
Hormones in the Placenta
Learning about why placenta encapsulation is a great addition to your postpartum plan starts with learning about the various hormones that are present in your placenta and why they are beneficial to you!
When to NOT Have Your Placenta Encapsulated
Knowing both the benefits and risks of a situation is the best way to make an informed decision. Read more to see the risks and contraindications that can be associated with placenta encapsulation.
Placenta Prints
Placenta prints are a wonderful way to have a visual reminder of your placenta. Learn more about them here!
What About The Smell?
Processing and encapsulating a placenta in a client's home can raise some questions: the biggest being what about the lingering smell in my house? Read to learn more about smell and placenta encapsulation.
Transporting Your Placenta from the Hospital or Birth Center to Your Home
We provide a Placenta Transport Kit that follows the WHO guidelines for transporting organs. Just another way we hold ourselves to the highest standards in the industry.
Top 10 Benefits of Placenta Encapsulation
Traditional Chinese Medicine Inspired Method of Preparation vs Raw Method for Placenta Encapsulation
The two main methods to process and encapsulate a placenta are the Traditional Chinese Medicine Inspired Method and the Raw Method. Both are great, but we recommend our clients learn about both to make the best decision when it comes to how to encapsulate their placenta.
Top 10 Reasons to Have Your Placenta Encapsulated in Your Own Home
Sometimes when clients hear that we encapsulate in their homes their is a long pause and they respond with, "wait, you want to do WHAT in my kitchen??" We strongly believe that in home encapsulation is the safest and best method, and below are our top ten reasons why its the best option.
Placenta 101: Farm to Table or Uterus to Capsule
Farm to table is all about local food being grown and served in the same community. Today on the blog we are talking all about the placenta! (or as we like to call it: uterus to capsule!)
Top 10 People that Deserve a Massage
To Break, or Not to Break (Your Water), That is the Question
In movies, a pregnant person’s water breaking is a rush of fluid, followed by strong contractions, and a baby is born within minutes. And while maybe that happened (once), that is not the common occurrence for most laboring individuals. The only truth to these hypothetical movie births is that when one’s water breaks, labor can speed up.
Reclaiming the First Trimester Prenatal Massage
Massage during the first trimester is safe for most pregnant individuals, and we are happy to work with all of our strong clients to help relieve pain and tension caused by pregnancy.
Our Doulas Will Always Support Your Cesarean Birth
Doulas are not just for unmedicated, vaginal births. Learn more here about how our doulas can support you and your family during cesarean births, both unplanned and planned.
Using Your B.R.A.I.N. to Make Tough Choices
During pregnancy and birth, you are given so many different opinions and options of what to do, what not to do, and what to sometimes do, it can be overwhelming. But by simply using your BRAIN (and the help of your trusted Doula), the decision process will hopefully be much easier.
A Beginners Guide to Prenatal Massage
We get a lot of questions about how our prenatal massages feel and compare to a regular Swedish or Deep Tissue Massage. Our go-to answer: wonderful and completely different. Below we answer a few of our commonly asked questions.
Delivering At Baby + Company
For expecting family’s that want an alternative to a hospital-birth in the Triangle, there is the boutique birthing center, Baby+Company option. Our local Cary Baby+Co is in partnership with WakeMed Health & Hospitals and under the medical direction of Triangle Physicians for Women. With only five locations throughout the United States, the Triangle is lucky to be home to one of them.
