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Baby Shower - A Blessing or a Curse?

“A baby shower is a way to celebrate the expected or delivered birth of a child by presenting gifts to the mother at a party, whereas...

Bundle of Joy or Depths of Despair?

While doing research for planning the postpartum support group I recently started, I googled “facilitating postpartum support group”....

The Paradox of Pain Free Childbirth

There is a general consensus that childbirth is painful. For centuries women have been enduring the pain of childbirth. And searching for...

Breast is NOT Best, Fed is NOT Best!

It's World Breastfeeding Week. I would like to think it is cause for celebration. However, I feel like it is more about hard work in...

Celebrating Birth with Photography

I have had people give me strange looks when I mention that I am a birth photographer. "Why would you want photos of that?" they say. I...

Dads and Doulas

Since Fathers Day is this month, I thought I would talk about how dads and doulas work together. Often I have women tell me that their...

Doula Do's and Doula Don'ts

May is International Doula Month so I thought I would talk about what doulas do. I get a lot of people assuming that a doula is a...

The Journey of a Birth Worker

Welcome to AuroraBirthSong. Thanks for stopping by. As a young girl I was fascinated by the human body and how it worked, especially the...