Dedicated Like a Mother

This bedside held me for one day shy of half the month. Sixteen days. And my suitcase lay real close nearby for them all.

 

This bedside held my favorite writing notebook with a Sakura Pigma Micron, extra fine, .25mm, the only pen that satisfies my craving for fine and soothing lines. I am writing, for life. 

 

This bedside held a perpetually-charged phone with sounds of tweets - like a mama bird - to let me know when it would be time to take flight. She's dedicated like a mother. Like this mother, for the mothers.

A new aGAIN mother will be Arriving, soon. aND TO MY BABIES BACK HOME IN OUR NEST, YOUR MAMA WILL FLY BACK TO SNUGGLE WITH YOU IN THAT THERE BEDSIDE, SOON. XO

If you or someone you love is delivering at a Novant Health hospital, having the best kind of doula support is ever more available. My little badge here allows me to support my clients (and patients during volunteer shifts) in places that are otherwise inaccessible to the non-clinical maternal support community - like triage, PACUs, ORs, and nutrition rooms.

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I joined NH's Lugenia Grider, CD, LCCE, CBS, this month during Mind Body Baby's Nurturing Parenthood event. We talked with families in Charlotte about doula support, Genia gave the best massages, and we demonstrated the power of the peanut ball and other helpful tools for better sleep during pregnancy and pelvic openers for encouraging laboring with more ease.  

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I'm thankful for welcome access to visit PCP appointments with my people - sit with them, listen to their thoughts and questions, encourage productive conversation with their providers, and work collaboratively to provide wrap-around care to our folks.