DoulaMamaWolf

Hello! Welcome to my new blog ~ The Pregnant Doula! Okay, so I'm not a doula yet. I'm a "novice" doula - a doula in training. In fact, I started a blog titled The Novice Doula in October, 2014, chronicalling my journey to becoming a positive birth support for labouring mothers. You can find it at www.thenovicedoula.blogspot.ca Unfortunately I had to take a little break from my doula journey, as we moved in November, 2014, and just as we were settling into our new home in December, we got a big surprise (which you've probably guessed by now)... We're pregnant!! A little backstory: I had our son in August 2013, and absolutely loved my pregnancy/birth with him. I always felt so beautiful, so natural, so connected to him, so empowered.    I went to 41 weeks, 1 day with him, and had a beautiful, perfect, drug free natural birth in hospital, an experience I wouldn't change for the world (you can read about it in my October 13th and...

Hello, and Welcome to the Novice Doula! This is post is going to be a bit different, as my plans are suddenly very different! It has been over a month since my last post, majorly because we were busy moving during November, and just as we were settling into our new home in early December - surprise! While we have been trying since May 2014, between irregular cycles due to still breastfeeding Roo and few "baby making times" during the move, we were really not expecting a positive test so soon. Life has a funny way of working things out when you least expected! With this sudden change of plans, I've decided to stay firmly in the "novice" stage of my doula journey - for now. I'll be taking this time to enjoy these last few months just my son & I at home, and also planning another great surprise... So many big changes this year for our family! My amazing, wonderful man dropped down on one knee the moment we heard our little love bug's heartbeat for the f...