Newborn Essentials!

I can close my eyes and vividly remember the first night home with our tiny new son. Hubby and I had both been around small babies a lot, and during my pregnancy we felt confident about caring for him – or so we thought. But that first night at home, when he...

That 4 letter word – PAIN!

by Tori Montoya, labor doula Let’s talk about pain.  Yes, I said it, that four-letter word. PAIN. When you are pregnant and you occasionally stop and look down at that belly and think, ok…this baby has to come out! YIKES! That, for most women is when the...

Birth Number One – Tracy

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,...