Posts in tampa doula
Nurturing Tranquility: Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques for a Stress-Free Pregnancy and Holiday Season

As the holiday season approaches, there's a unique blend of joy and anticipation in the air, especially for pregnant people. Yet, amidst the festive cheer, it's essential to prioritize your well-being and embrace relaxation techniques to navigate both the challenges of pregnancy and the holiday hustle with grace.

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Breathing Techniques For Pregnancy & Labor

One of the first things our Tampa doulas at One Love Doula Services do during the labor process is remind clients to breathe! Breathing is one of the most important techniques you can do to ease pain, distress, and anxiety during labor. Controlled breathing brings extra oxygen to the uterus, muscles, and your baby. It resets the nervous system from a phase of fight/flight to rest/digest, and it regulates you and your baby’s nervous system.

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A Coach for New Parents - Our Latest Service for new parents in Tampa!

We at One Love are excited to announce that New Parent Coaching is on its way, Tampa Bay! New Parent Coaching will take how we support families to a whole different level by offering a wider spectrum of services that doesn’t just support and educate you on matters related to birth and pregnancy, but meets…

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What is a Concierge Pediatrician? An At-Home Pediatrician Might Be For You!

We sat with Dr. Lastra, owner of @head2toepediatrics, and it was such a treat learning about her Concierge Pediatric services. Concierge pediatric services offer the same services as an in-office pediatrician but with all the benefits of being accessible in one’s home. It’s a brand new concept that is in high demand, so here’s the low…

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Pelvic Floor Therapy: 3 Things You May Not Know | Tampa Doula Tips

One Love Doula in Tampa Bay believes in caring for you completely from providing emotional support to supplementary services. This means we take the time to identify community partners that offer amazing local Tampa services that can contribute to your overall health, as well as birth services and postpartum goals. Have you ever considered Pelvic…

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5 Comfort Measures and Positions to Practice Before Giving Birth

So you are preparing for the big day – your labor and birth is coming up! We know there is a lot to get through when it comes to your checklist. You are probably completing your birth plan, finalizing the nursery, and prepping meals for the postpartum period – but you may be missing one…

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One Love Doula Celebrates Year of Growth With Tampa Doula Retreat

Although we are continuously growing, One Love Doula’s mission remains the same. We strive to provide the best possible service in the area of birth planning, pregnancy support, labor support, and postpartum services. Our team of experienced doulas in Tampa have the never ending passion to serve others, and we are eternally grateful to be allowed…

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Ten Benefits of Hiring a Doula in Tampa

Having a baby is one of the most beautiful times in one’s life: from finding out that you’re pregnant to finally meeting your child! It can also be one of the most stressful times, which is where finding a doula can be one of your best decisions. You may be thinking, “Where can I find a doula…

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Pregnancy Overwhelm? Everything Is Going To Be Alright

Pregnancy and birth are full of beautiful, new experiences; however, we know this time can feel overwhelming to say the least! With Google, thousands of books, and the advice of well-meaning friends and family, it can be difficult to know which way to turn. FAIL TO PLAN, PLAN TO FAIL. One of our favorite phrases…

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Planning an Epidural? Here's How a Doula Can Help.

You may think that a doula is only useful for unmedicated or vaginal births. However, doula support is very valuable in every birth, regardless of where it takes place, or if your labor is unmedicated, medicated, or a cesarean. Often, we are asked, “How can a doula help me if I’m thinking of an epidural,…

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Stages of Labor: Spirit & Birth World Combined

Your birth experience is not just what happens in your delivery room – or what your support people are able to see. Your birth experience is often described as an “out of body” or a “spirit and birthing world combined” journey. There is a thin veil between the spiritual and birthing world. During each phase…

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Why You Should Spend More Time Thinking About Postpartum Planning

As Labor Doulas, we spend most of our time educating and preparing our One Love family members for a positive birth experience. We would not be serving you well if we did not talk about the part that lasts much longer: the postpartum experience. The postpartum time period is defined as “the first 6 weeks…

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Motherhood Anxiety And Ways To Cope

We are more than halfway through 2020 and we can all admit, it has been a challenging one. How are you all hanging in there? Lately, we have been talking with a lot of other soon to be parents and people that are already parents. A very common and nerve racking topic that has come…

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Birth during Covid-19 | How to support the laboring person

There’s no doubt that the times that we are in are difficult and uncertain; especially for those of our One Love family getting ready to give birth. Whether it is for the first time or the fourth time, giving birth right now is different and challenging, to say the least. Most hospitals have made the difficult choice…

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Virtual doula support and COVID19

First we want to ask- how are you? We hope that you are taking time for deep breaths and centering yourself with your thoughts, while attempting to calm fears. An excellent relaxation session offered by evidenced based birth can be accessed here. We may not be with you in person but we are still very…

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Pelvic Floor Therapy| Postpartum Support

One love was recently invited over to meet with Christina Noonan a Pelvic Floor therapist (PFT) at Potentia health– a facility for women’s health in Tampa Bay. One of the main things that I hear women convey is the fear of incontinence post delivery! Well don’t be afraid, there are solutions and preventative measures, therapy…

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Top 5 Doula tips for morning sickness

You just peed on that stick because lately you’re feeling a little nauseas in the morning. The excitement hits instantly the instant that test says ‘POSITIVE’ so you tell all your close friends and family and celebrate with your partner. What about this pesky morning sickness, what do you do now? We have five tried…

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