by Tracy Haroldson | Feb 17, 2020 | Labor and Delivery, Uncategorized
The big day is coming soon and it’s time to pack your hospital bags! Baby will be arriving any day and of course you want to have everything you will need. Every time I am at the hospital, I see families wheeling giant suitcases and lugging birth balls through the...
by Tracy Haroldson | Jun 11, 2019 | Labor and Delivery
Are you preparing for the birth of your baby? Here’s a handy list of tips that you and your support people can use to help you feel more comfortable! 1. Is music a part of your daily life, does it influence your emotions and help you relax ? If so, make 2 playlists on...
by Tracy Haroldson | May 1, 2018 | Doulas, Labor and Delivery
Hiring a doula can be a new idea to many Moms and not everyone understands or appreciates the value we bring. I have had people say to me “Well the hospital has nurses, don’t they take care of her?” or “But that’s the dad’s job!” and even “I wouldn’t pay someone to...
by Tracy Haroldson | Apr 26, 2018 | Adoption, Infertility
A very special guest post from an ABQ Doula client – “You will never get pregnant naturally.” That’s all I can remember our fertility doctor telling me the day we met in his cold, bare conference room. All I could do was stare at him and try to figure out what...
by Tracy Haroldson | Jan 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
The night was pitch black, not a star showing as I drove along the lonely New Mexico highway. The 17 year old girl next to me moaned quietly through the contractions that rolled over her every 5 minutes or so. In the back of my tiny little car her grandmother sat,...
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