Summertime is a festive season – a time of gorging on hunks of watermelon, playing catch on sunny lawns, dashing through sprinklers, or grilling out with family.
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Last year I read a groundbreaking article in Huffington Post: The Mental Workload of a Mother. It introduced a term I hadn’t heard before, but was living quite vividly every day: the “mental load.”
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My breasts have served me well, but after 32 years together, this year we say farewell. That sounded poetic, but the reality of my situation is far from. A few months ago I found out that I tested positive for a BRCA1 mutation. I wish I could say that I received that news while my husband held my hand; that we squeezed each other knowing we could and would get through it together.
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As we head into an insanely busy year four for our agency, I’ve had time to reflect on this biz from a financial perspective (please don’t fall asleep, it’s going to get juicier, I promise!). I’ve already had someone inquire into our services only to reply with an expletive-filled rant about how outrageous the cost of doulas are (I know January was hard, but please seek out some sunshine, sir).
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When I was six years-old my parents signed me up for the swim team. I was the smallest and youngest kid there, and unsurprisingly during one of my first practices, every kid cut in front of me to go off the diving block. After practice, my mom having witnessed the whole thing said, “Shug (my lifelong nickname), don’t let those kids cut in front of you.
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One of the biggest concerns we hear in consults often comes from a laboring mom's birth partner – “Will the doula replace me?” and “What will my role be if there’s a doula in the room?” It’s a legitimate concern; as the old adage goes, “two is company, three’s a crowd.” But we want to address these concerns head on, and create a new birth motto: “two is company, but three is a heckuva birth team!”
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As parents, there are so many things we want to impart on our kids as they grow, learn, and develop into adults. Sage advice beyond, “Don’t pick your nose in public,” and “There are plenty of fish in the sea.”
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Before my wife enrolled us in a birthing class or prepared our birth plan, I already knew the dad’s role during labor. I had seen it in plenty of movies and TV shows. I was to pace back and forth outside the delivery room, box of cigars under my arm...
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I’ve been an avid reader my entire life; I started with horror and crime novels in early grade school. While my classmates were reading the Goosebumps series, I was toting around my older sisters’ copies of Stephen King. I wanted to be a badass, crime-solving medical examiner when I grew up,
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