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Supporting families in the suburbs of Philadelphia

balanceinbirthdoula

Birth Doula, CD(DONA)
Yoga Instructor, RYT200 + RPYT
📍Philly suburbs

A year of many repeat clients (7 of 19!), my first

A year of many repeat clients (7 of 19!), my first en caul birth, TWINNIES, an accidental home birth, and of course, a couple VBACs because we just can’t get enough. 🙃 Wrapping up a beautiful, redemptive 2025 for so many families and looking forward to a challenging, yet rewarding 2026! 🤍

Updateeeee: I’m here! I’m alive! Still supporting

Updateeeee: I’m here! I’m alive! Still supporting all the births and raising all the children and fully neglecting my social media accounts, woops. 🫣 And whether we like it or not, life’s about to get busier! I’m officially going back to school in January (oh hey, Drexel 🐉) to study to become an IBCLC so that I can extend my scope of practice through the fourth trimester and beyond. 🤍 While I’m super nervous about balancing all the things (and that motherhood may have melted my brain), I can’t wait to learn all there is to learn about feeding your sweet bbs!

What does this mean? I’ll be taking a suuuuuper light birth load in 2026 (I know I’ve said this before, but I mean it this time 🤪), dabbling in lactation support, and probably dropping from 3 Instagram posts per year to 1, let’s be honest.

Stay tuned!! 🫶🏼

O N E • H U N D R E D (and seven oops 🙃) births su

O N E • H U N D R E D (and seven oops 🙃) births supported and counting!! What an honor and privilege it is to have been a part of 90ish (some of you several times!) families’ most vulnerable, powerful, and life-changing times. I’m forever grateful to get to do such meaningful work and for you wonderful humans sharing your birth spaces with me 🫶🏼🥹✨

SHEW! What. A. Year! From loooong inductions to wi

SHEW! What. A. Year! From loooong inductions to wicked fast first AND second babies, hospital transfers to home birth, a handful of surprises and lots of changes in plans…a couple themes stood out to me.

1. MOMS ARE UNSTOPPABLE. I’ve said it a million times and will never, ever stop. Whether things went way more quickly or way more slowly or just way *not* as anticipated, 100% of these 👆🏼 moms approached birth and motherhood with strength, determination, and positivity (though occasionally that part took some time).

2. Babies are ready when they’re ready! We just need to set our egos and schedules aside and get out of their way. Of COURSE medical needs necessitate early inductions or Cesareans sometimes. But this year my earliest and latest babies (35+1 and 41+2) both came on their own perfect timing and were equally robust and healthy and almost identical in size (and the 35-weeker was not even the smallest babe of the year)! What if we had tried to induce the 41-weeker 2 weeks early? He just. needed. time. But that 35-weeker? She was jazzed and ready to go!! And this range is all normal and ok and needs to be embraced. 🫶🏼

3. I have the B E S T clients. This year you all were especially incredible, working around my funky mom-of-3 and school pickup availability, welcoming my own baby girl ball & chain into your homes for meetings, pretending not to notice the not-subtle hum of my pumps during your births….I should have known the birth space was the best space to be in as a mom, but you all made it abundantly clear. Moms supporting moms is the most special type of love, and I love being wrapped up in this community with you all. 🤍🤍

Cheers to many healthy fams & babies in 2024! 🥂

Love love love,
Jackie 🤍

POV: you crossed state lines and commuted over an

POV: you crossed state lines and commuted over an hour to every appointment to find providers who TRULY believe in the beauty and power of undisturbed birth, worked your a$$ off, and rocked your hard-earned, redemptive ✨HBAC (home birth after cesarean)✨ @miche_malo truly truly truly it was an honor to witness your strength and determination! 🤍

Y’all I cannot stress enough the importance of choosing the right place of birth + birth team for YOU. Providers who make you feel confident and supported and discuss the risks/benefits of every decision with you, through the lens of what makes YOU feel good, not just blanket recommendations or “this is how we do things.” These providers DO exist! 🦄

Happy last day of World Breastfeeding Week! Brea

Happy last day of World Breastfeeding Week!

Breastfeeding can be hard. It can come with hurdles (I’ve had them!) and certainly sacrifices of time, sleep, and autonomy. But it can also be full of joy and pride and snuggles galore. 🤍 Whether you’ve breastfed for a day, a year, or a decade, you’re a badass in my eyes 😘

📸: @photosbycarlyn - personally vetted and recommended by yours truly for in-home newborn/fam sessions!

Anddddd it’s been over half a year since I posted

Anddddd it’s been over half a year since I posted one of these, with only 2 other grid posts in between 🫣 haha OOOOPS. Mom of 3 life 🫠🫠

Availability update for 2025! Call me beep me when you pee on a stick plz! 🫶🏼

We’re so excited that Mama is fully booked for 202

We’re so excited that Mama is fully booked for 2024 births (and Jan 2025!) and off-call for the next month! And maybe also a little excited about our cookies. 🥰 Bring on the late-summer and fall bébés…after some serious tech detox and fam time, of course. ☺️✌🏼

It’s wild how having birthed a human twice before

It’s wild how having birthed a human twice before and having witnessed more than 70 other births, this one still threw me for a loop. My third birth story is *finally* up on the blog! Please excuse any errors, as this was largely written in the middle of the night during those early postpartum weeks. 🙃🤍

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