One Love Doula Blog

The holiday season is a magical time filled with joy and celebration, but for new parents with a newborn, it can also bring a mix of excitement and challenges.

The purpose of creating a birth story is to capture the experience and preserve it for you, your partner and family members and your child. In this how to guide we will review the different ways you can document your beautiful story.

So, you’re on this journey of motherhood and are now wondering if everything down there is behaving as it should. Doesn’t every mom have a hard time holding it in?

There are many reasons why women may let out a little bit of pee. A very common occurrence during or after pregnancy is something called stress urinary incontinence.

Becoming a mother is one of the most beautiful and rewarding experiences in life. However, it can also be one of the most challenging.

Preeclampsia is a condition that affects pregnant women. It can cause high blood pressure and result in serious health problems for both you and your baby.

Breastfeeding has many benefits for mom and baby. Breastfeeding can help protect baby from illness and disease, can lowers your babies risk of asthma, obesity, type I diabetes and even SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

As a working mother, balancing the demands of family and career can be a challenge. One of the most important steps you can take to prepare for this balance is to plan ahead for maternity leave. In this blog, we'll discuss the challenges of balancing motherhood and career, understanding your employer's leave policies, creating a career plan for before and after maternity leave, and building support systems.

You may be thinking, “Where can I find a doula near me?”  We provide Tampa doula support and Miami doula support, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, postpartum doula care, specialized lactation support by our CLC’s and IBCLC’s.

Welcome home baby! Your newest family member has arrived and you share the exciting news with family members. Shortly after you’ll begin to receive the texts and calls asking to come meet your sweet newborn. If your new mom instincts spring into action, do not be alarmed… it is natural for parents to feel protective of their little ones especially in regards to sharing them with the world.

Like Motherhood and marriage, friendships are constantly evolving. It can begin to feel impossible to find time to nurture all of the important relationships in your life, while still finding time to care for your little ones or to decompress alone.

A Caesarean section, also known as C-section or caesarean delivery, is the surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the delivering persons abdomen, often performed because vaginal delivery would put the baby or mother at risk.

Having a C-Section is no joke -- and it’s definitely not a “quick and easy” way to have a baby. If you’ve had one, we definitely don’t need to tell you this! What we are here to tell you, though, is what you can do to heal from it. Lets review 5 tips for optimal recovery after a cesarean.

So you just had a baby 3 days ago– and now you find yourself crying while listening to “You Are My Sunshine” and while staring at your new little bundle of joy. Lets discuss the difference between baby blues and postpartum depression or postpartum mood disorder.

How do you prepare for the big day? After all you don’t want to step into that experience full of fear due to the unknown or anxiety due to low confidence surrounding birth and your bodies ability. Learn five things you can do to prepare for childbirth right now.