If you think that postpartum doulas offer support to the birthing person and baby, you are correct! AND we offer support to the entire family and household systems. This includes partners, siblings, and some foundational household logistics. Nighttime doulas support...
One crucial part of postpartum planning is considering your physical healing and wellbeing in the days and weeks after birth. Of course, we know that all of our systems are connect and work together. Thus, the ways you tend to your physical healing can impact your...
As a postpartum doula, I used to work with clients who reported that they couldn’t find classes for the things that they needed. Or more often, they signed up for classes their care providers said they “needed”, only to find that the classes were really fear and...
As you are preparing for baby, it can feel like there are sooooo many things to get ready and so many plans to make. There are classes, new furniture, baby clothes, feeding supplies, and on and on. We hear you; we understand how and why these things feel important....
For many families with a newborn, it seems like time flies in the first few weeks and months. Suddenly, it is time to go back to work. We recognize and honor the fact that this can be scary, exciting, heartbreaking, freeing, and a total roller coaster of emotions. Not...
Nourishment is an important part of postpartum healing. You will enter the postpartum period in a state of depletion, regardless of whether you birthed vaginally or surgically. Birth is a full-body experience that, quite frankly, is hard on the body. Additionally,...
2021 is here, and while the end is in sight and a lot of hope is in the air, we are still living with COVID as a major factor in our lives. Here at ABG, we value the health and safety of our clients and our doulas. Since March, we’ve made various shifts and changes,...
What Do I Buy for the Baby?! This holiday season and beyond, you might be wondering, "What do I buy for the baby?!" Family and friends might also be asking what they can gift you for baby. This guide offers 18 of our tried and true toy recommendations. While babies...
You may be wondering what the deal is. Your sweet baby is spitting up all the time now- is it a bad thing? Maybe they are acting uncomfortable and grumpy and you just can't figure out why. You have heard so much about “reflux-y” babies and how hard they are! Is your...
Plan to Do Less Our society has done a good job of convincing expectant parents that they can do it all. New parents ARE amazing and incredible people, AND this is simply too much pressure, highly unsustainable, and, quite frankly, unrealistic. When we try to do it...
Postpartum care is for families of all types, circumstances, and scenarios! In our time serving families, we’ve had the honor of working with families who have experienced surrogacy, adoption, and loss, and we feel strongly that everyone who wants and needs postpartum...
At Austin & Asheville Baby Guru, we take pride in working with families of all types, and this very much includes single parents. This blog speaks directly to some of the unique needs single parents may face in the newborn days, as well as ways that postpartum...
