by shawna@thirdcoastbirth.com | Jul 21, 2016 | Featured Birth Stories
As a community of support, we love to share real life birth stories with you, our Third Coast family. We hope that these stories will encourage and inspire you! Today we hear from Cassandra, Mama of three. Thank you for sharing your story with us, Cassandra! What...
by shawna@thirdcoastbirth.com | Jul 18, 2016 | Featured Birth Stories
As a community of support, we love to share real life birth stories with you, our Third Coast family. We hope that these stories will encourage and inspire you! Today we hear from Janelle, Mama of two. Thank you, Janelle for your honesty and willingness to share....
by Margarita Valbuena | May 10, 2016 | Childbirth, Community, doula, labor support, parenting, Postpartum, Pregnancy, Real Talk Tuesday
Shawna and I have lived a lifetime of not quite settling for status quo. Neither of us take anything at face value, we are noticers, observers, and when we see a need that resonates with our values, we do everything in our power to fill that need. It was a long and...
by Margarita Valbuena | Apr 26, 2016 | Childbirth, Community, doula, parenting, Real Talk Tuesday, Self-Care
My favorite reaction from one of my best friends when I told her I was pregnant with my second kid was “Santa caca!!” (literally: “Holy crap!!”) Can you relate? That intense feeling of excitement mixed with the deer-in-headlights realization...