Doulas of Jacksonville

Before you start giving your placenta the side-eye because you’re “past your due date,” let’s give this incredible organ the credit it deserves. 👏✨

Meet the placenta—the only organ your body grows from scratch just for pregnancy. 🤯

For the last several months, it’s been working around the clock to:
🤍 Deliver oxygen and nutrients to your baby
🤍 Remove waste products
🤍 Produce hormones that help sustain pregnancy
🤍 Support your baby’s immune system and growth

Basically… it’s the ultimate multitasker. 💪

And here’s something many parents don’t realize: the placenta doesn’t suddenly “expire” the moment you reach your due date. A due date is an estimate—not an expiration date. Research shows that while the placenta naturally changes throughout pregnancy, many continue functioning well beyond 40 weeks. That’s why your provider may recommend additional monitoring later in pregnancy to make sure both baby and placenta are still doing their jobs beautifully.

Every pregnancy is unique, and decisions about birth timing should consider the whole picture—not just the calendar. 🗓️

As doulas, we’re here to help you understand what’s happening in your body, ask informed questions, and feel confident in your birth journey.

Because your placenta? She’s been working overtime… and she deserves a little appreciation too. 🌸

✨ Did you know your body creates an entire organ just for your baby? Tell us what surprised you most about the placenta!

🌿 Small tool. Big comfort.

A wooden labor comb may be tiny, but it can make a big difference during labor.

By squeezing the comb during contractions, the pressure stimulates the nerves in your hand. This is based on the Gate Control Theory of Pain, which suggests that competing sensory input can help decrease how pain is perceived.

✨ Benefits may include:
🤎 A natural, drug-free comfort measure
🤎 A focus point during contractions
🤎 Encouraging rhythmic breathing and relaxation
🤎 Easy to use alongside movement, massage, hydrotherapy, and other coping techniques

This is where doula support shines. Doulas don’t just hand you a labor comb—they help you discover which comfort measures work best for you, offering continuous support, encouragement, and guidance throughout labor.

No single tool works for everyone, but having an experienced doula and a toolbox of evidence-informed comfort techniques can help you feel more confident and supported during birth. 💛

Have you packed a labor comb in your birth bag yet?

🇺🇸🇺🇸POV: Thank God I live in America.🇺🇸🇺🇸 Where we not only have the freedom to birth when and where we want…With who we want, and in any position we want… but also to have the privilege of not being beaten with a wooden bat for merely kissing my husband in an online video. As was the reality of many people in Indonesia today.

⭐️ So, thank you military families for your service and sacrifice to keep the liberties we have today. And to every mama to be out there, Let freedom reign and advocate for YOUR wishes when your “labor day” arrives and book your doula support NOW!

🇺🇸 God bless America 🇺🇸
#2025 🇺🇸

✨Birth is a miracle and women are courageous✨
2 births, 1 VBAC 👏, both 2nd babies, one birthed on hands and knees-the other laying on her side, 1 boy-1 girl, two different stories, 2 loving families with ONE same outcome… an empowered & supported vaginal birth 💪

One mama says “It’s been so so nice having had my VBAC. Recovery has been so smooth and fast it’s such an amazing experience to feel so good postpartum and be able to be present with both kids.”

Mama, don’t miss out on the support you need to have a more positive experience! Send us a DM with your due date to check rates and availability!

Shoutout to the ever lovely midwives from Full Circle Women's Care and the encouraging team of L&D nurse HCA Florida Healthcare Memorial for providing respectful and high level medical care.

Are you pregnant and want to have a positive birth experience no matter the setting?! Do you desire to have unbiased support and education throughout your journey to motherhood!? Give us a call TODAY ☎️ Spots for the rest of the year are going FAST 💨

VBAC BIRTH BABY!!!!🥳 This was what we doulas call a “Dream team birth”!
Was it perfect? No. Was this mama supported, empowered, fed, held, encouraged, listened to, and cared for through every minute of her 24hr labor?….. ABSO-FREAKIN-LUTELY!!

Got to 9.5 cm natural using all the comfort measures: the shower, the labor comb, essential oils, the doulas reminders to breathe that baby down and let her muscles release tension. Massage, counter pressure, position changes, words of encouragement galore from her husband! Then when that OP baby (facing mamas belly) just would not turn, and an anterior lip (part of the cervix on the belly side of you is there but everything else has melted back behind baby’s head) proves to be stubborn and position changes didn’t work… an epidural for a 10 minute break and midwives Jordan and Norma rolled in to hold that cervical lip back while she pushed like it was her entire meaning in life…. 💪 That precious (and already marching to the beat of his own drum) 7 lb 5oz baby boy graced us with his presence almost fully OP still 🙃

Thank you for trusting us to support you through such a journey!
Shoutout to Full Circle Women's Care and the always lovely team of L&D nurses HCA Florida Healthcare Memorial Hospital!

Mama to be: You can greatly effect whether you have a vaginal birth, but that’s ONLY if you put in the work for it. Yes rare emergencies can happen, but most of how your birth goes is all because of what you’ve put in, your attitude towards what you are handed and the CHOICES you make. But don’t get overwhelmed by that!

☎️ Call us TODAY! We’re here to help you know what to expect, how to navigate it, AND actually be BY YOUR SIDE every step of the way!

POV: Tell me you’re at a birth without telling me you’re at a birth 🤣…. Sends this picture 🤪

😍 ”…she was the perfect mix of the complete relaxing presence as well as my advocate and encourager.”

😭We couldn’t BE more thankful for you mama for trusting us with such a sacred moment in your life.

Are YOU (yes you mom-to-be scrolling insta looking for inspiration on how to prepare yourself for birth) ready to talk with us and find out what doula support could benefit your experience? Dm us TODAY to set up a complementary phone consultation!!!

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