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You Are Not Meant To Do This Alone
You Are Not Meant To Do This Alone

I’ll just come right out and say it. Women NEED other women,especially during pregnancy and the early days of parenting. We need them as friends, mentors, and to walk through life with us. But how do we find them? How do we create a community for ourselves? Read the blog for some ideas.

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4th Trimester, New Parents, Newborn, Parenting, Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Doulas, Postpartum Recovery, Relationships, Self-careHeather Clementspostpartum support, postpartum, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, postpartum depression, postpartum complications, emotional support, community, newborn
The Nighttime Dread
The Nighttime Dread

Everyone tells you you don’t get much sleep after you have a baby. You don’t really internalize that before your baby is here. Then it hits you like a ton of bricks. OH. You don’t get much sleep after you have a baby. You can deal with that fatigue fine during the day but when the sun sets…the nighttime dread sets in. Some might even call it anxiety.

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4th Trimester, Doulas, Infant Sleep, Newborn, Postpartum Recovery, Postpartum Doulas, Self-care, SleepHeather Clementspostpartum support, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, postpartum mood disorders, newborn, newborn sleep, postpartum recovery, postpartum, postpartum doula, sleep supportComment
Give Yourself the Gift of Sleep
Give Yourself the Gift of Sleep

You need sleep after your baby is born. While we wish this was easy as telling you to “sleep when the baby sleeps”, we all know that there are some days and some nights where your baby just won’t sleep. Instead, we urge you to have a sleep plan in place for yourself before your baby arrives. Of course, if your baby has already been born you can still implement a new sleep plan. Read our newest blog to find out more.

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4th Trimester, Doulas, Infant Sleep, New Parents, Newborn, Postpartum Doulas, Postpartum Recovery, Self-care, SleepHeather Clementspostpartum support, postpartum doula, newborn, newborn sleep, self-care
Supporting Loss
Supporting Loss

October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. Unfortunately, there seems to be a stigma and maybe a shroud of secrecy surrounding loss. Everyone deserves support but it seems as though no one knows how to support others through their loss. This is unfortunate as 1 in 4 people experience this kind of loss at least once in their life time. We’ve gathered some ways to show support.

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Newborn, Relationships, Self-care, Pregnancy, Labor, Doulas, Birthing PartnerHeather Clementspregnancy, birth, loss, infant death, stillborn, miscarriage, fetal demise, postpartum support, emotional support, supporting loss
Favorite Local Coffee Shops
Favorite Local Coffee Shops

If you know Doulas of Raleigh Co-Owners, Kelly and Heather, then you know know how much we love coffee. We jokingly (kinda) refer to coffee as our love language. Rest assured, any time we get together to discuss business, coffee is going to be involved. This means we have become experts on knowing where to find the caffeinated good good here in the Triangle. Take a look at what we think are some of the best coffee shops in the area.

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Fall, Food and Drink, New Parents, Recreation and Events, Self-careHeather Clementscoffee, local business, shop local, coffeeshop, coffeehouse, locally sourced
Placenta Encapsulation Timeline
Placenta Encapsulation Timeline

This blog post tells you exactly what to expect as our placenta encapsulation client from the moment you sign a contract with us to several weeks after your baby is born. This includes how to store your placenta, how to get it home from the hospital, and what to expect from the 2-day encapsulatio4n process.

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4th Trimester, Placenta Encapsulation, Postpartum Doulas, Postpartum Recovery, Self-careHeather Clementsplacenta, placenta encapsulation, postpartum placenta, postpartum placenta specialist, placenta process, placenta pills, postpartum support, postpartum recovery
And the Oscar goes to........
And the Oscar goes to........

The red carpet is out. The celebrities are wearing their finest. Hollywood is abuzz with who will win an Oscar at tonight's Academy Awards. Check out this blog to see how we related Best Picture nominees to new motherhood.

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New Parents, Newborn, Parenting, Postpartum Doulas, Self-care, Recreation and EventsHeather ClementsOscars, Best Picture, The Academy Awards, motherhood, new mom, newborn, new baby, Arrival, HIdden Figures, Fences, La La LandComment