delivering fresh or frozen meals right to your door in blacksburg,va. how did the dream for the cottage kitchen become a reality? the dream for the cottage kitchen included a host of factors that got me started taking baby steps to make the dream a reality. one factor in the dream for the cottage kitchen …
Author Archives: grammiedoula
why i became a postpartum doula
because baby holding is my favorite thing to do and new moms need help from a postpartum doula in the 4th trimester. postpartum doula care is about holding space for new moms and babies during the mom’s recovery after birth. i have been researching and i am learning that in our middle tennessee area surrounding nashville, …
chicken soup warms my soul
chicken soup: comfort food that warms the soul. chicken soup is comfort food that warms my soul. my postpartum clients get this homemade chicken soup in a quart sized jar when they need a little taste of home and some extra protein in their diet. you can ask them. it’s true! you know, i enjoy …
postpartum meal ideas
goal: to ease the mind with meal options during the postpartum period. meal preparation during postpartum recovery can lessen anxiety and best of all, it’s one less decision to make each day. the time frame for postpartum recovery is different for each one but it starts with the birth of the baby and goes from …
baby loss. twenty weeks.
baby loss isn’t talked about much. i experienced this first hand. for each one of us who has lost a child, mine was a stillbirth at twenty weeks. i wrote my story because I am finally ready to share it. it took me a long time to be able to talk about losing my baby. i felt …
fire station birth. my story.
my second child’s birth story. fire station birth is my second child’s birth story. it’s my own birth experience and i was a labor and delivery nurse. i am a professional birth photographer with no birth photos but i do have a newspaper clipping! our daughter was not born in the hospital. she was born one block …
