Ultrasound in Pregnancy
Let’s explore Ultrasound during pregnancy. What it is, when it's used, the risks and benefits. As well as ACOG, FDA & WHO recommendations for use. Along with helpful alternatives to ultrasound during pregnancy.
Book Review | The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
Join me for the first book review! I’ll be going over Henci Goer’s The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth and how this book, published in 1999, is still relevant today! A great tool for foundational knowledge when preparing for a birth, especially an in-hospital birth.
What is a Doula Series Wrap-Up
Our time with the “What is a Doula Series” is coming to a close.
Here, I would like to offer you a little summary of the topics that contribute to how a doula encourages parents to feel “Capable of Anything,” when it comes to birth and immediately postpartum
Your doula is a touchstone and guide throughout the birth process. We meet you where you are. Provide the tools you need to make your own informed decisions. Support those decisions, and help hold space for you and your birth. Providing continuity of care from pregnancy through to immediately after birth. We stand, squat, dance, sit with you, providing continuous, uninterrupted and nonjudgmental support.
Partners & Doulas | A Perfect Team?
Doulas Help Partners Too???
Birth is more than just baby. The experience of the birthing person and their partner matter just as much!
There is reassurance that everything is okay based on your doula’s knowledge.
Confidence in the process as well as with each other moving through the rhythms of labor with your doula to ground and guide.
Here I debunk the assumption that a doula replaces the partner in the birthing space.
Join in as I share just how important partners are as well as how they can work together for a great birth experience with a doula.
A Doula Superpower
How time can help you feel in control of your birth and feeling like you are “capable of anything.”
Mediation & Time : A Doula Superpower
Join me as I share why time is so important to preserving your birth experience. As well as how a doula does more than hold space, but protects and upholds it.
Knowing Your Options
Part of preparing you for birth is education of your options. Each pregnancy and birth is unique, and with that so are the variations that can occur. While we cannot plan everything that will happen in a birth, we can prepare and educate as best we can so you feel comfortable with the process. By knowing your choices, and options within those choices, you will be able to feel like a participant in your health care. Here I go into some of those options and how to navigate the often overwhelming process of preparing for birth and baby.
Welcome to the JB Doula Podcast! Ep. 1
Join me for the inaugural episode of the JB Doula Podcast! Here I’ll introduce myself, the goals of the podcast, and dip into the very real need we have for community and open honest discussion. Let’s work toward a collaborative maternity care model together!
Doula What Now?
What is a doula series: the basics.
So, you’re looking for a doula? Or perhaps you’ve just recently heard this odd term and want to learn more.
You’re in luck, because this is the start of my “What is a doula” series where I will shed some light on what a doula is, does, how they benefit you, as well as other fun tips and tricks.
Art & Birth Work
Art has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Unable to fully leave it to the side. I wanted to find a way to use that creativity in relation to my desire to continue pursuing birth work as a life path. Birth Matters as well as Art, and I want to combine them in a meaningful way. Here I share how I have begun to do just that.
Welcome to the JB Doula Podcast!
Welcome to the JB Doula Podcast! Announcing the release of my passion project for the last few years, I’m so excited to discuss everything from informative topics around women’s health and the childbearing years as well as inviting guests to share their birth stories, parent hacks, products or services they offer families and women as well as spot lights on local providers and services as well as local moms starting their own businesses!
Meet Your Doula!
Hello and Welcome!
Allow me to reintroduce myself, I’m Jessica Brown, a DONA Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula serving families in Western Pennsylvania.
Inspired to pursue birth work and women’s health from the Homercity Red Tent, I’m amazed at how far I’ve come.
The past handful of years has been a wild ride to get where I am now, and I’m so glad to have followed that calling to birth work. Something I had felt in my bones and knew I had to pursue. This is what I was meant to do, and I’m grateful to all who have helped and supported me along the way.
Join me here as I share what brought me to birth work and where JB Doula is going from here!
More Than a Pacifier Clip
Join me as I take a look at the patent pending pacifier clip from Little Bemi Co.
How to Write Your Own Birth Story
You have just gone through an amazingly chaotic journey full of ups and downs. Your precious newborn is finally in your arms looking up at you with eyes full of serenity and wonder. You have given birth and are bursting at the seams to talk about your experience to anyone who will listen. You might have already told your story, sometimes multiple times, to the same people. Here I break down ways to process and record your birth journey.
How to Find Your Feeding Groove
Your feeding groove is simply whatever way of feeding your baby works best for both of you (you’re a team). This also is an ongoing process as you two learn together and as baby grows. What worked last week might not fly today. Triplely so if you’re tandem feeding, whether multiple newborns or your toddler and newborn. Here are several ways to help you find your feeding groove.
5 Must Haves When Creating Your Baby Feeding Nest
Whether you are planning to breast or bottle feed your soon-to-be-newborn; the time spent feeding your little one is a prime opportunity for bonding. All too often, we expect to instantly know everything about our babies as soon as they are born, and drop seamlessly into parenthood. Only to have our expectations swept up from under us; leaving us scrambling to find our footing as we juggle the needs of this proverbial stranger in our homes.
Close contact (preferably skin to skin!) is crucial for bonding with your baby and helping them feel secure enough to thrive. To do this you’re going to need to have a space (or several) that you will go to with your baby while feeding. This spot is going to need to be comfortable! You will spend much of the first few weeks here.
Here I will break done the essentials to not only surviving, but thriving during the frequent feeding period of parenthood that comes with bringing home a newborn.
20 for 2020
2020 is finally here! With that comes new year resolutions and striving to be the best versions of ourselves. Here I talk about a slightly different way to succeed with your goals for this upcoming year. I’ll give you a hint: Gretchen Rubin.
Kick off your year with me and learn why you would want to start your own 20 for 2020.
Toasting to the New Year: Alcohol and Breastfeeding
Tis the season for holiday cheer! For many of us that includes beer, wine, champagne and other fun cocktails. When it comes to our expecting or breastfeeding families, alcohol has typically been a big no-no. In this post, I shed some light on the controversy of drinking while pregnant and breastfeeding. With only a few hours until the New Year, I hope to assuage some ingrained fears!
INFJ Struggles
Explore the ups and downs of starting a birth centered business while being an introvert! A peak into my personal journey as an INFJ following my dreams.
Season of Gratitude
We are in that inbetween time of fall and winter. As our days grow colder and shorter, it can be a struggle to stay positive. Here, I explore my own feelings on Thanksgiving and what I plan to do this season to foster gratitude.