Crys the Doula

The Babies We Don’t Talk About, but Should.

Trigger warning: Miscarriage and infant loss with images at the end of the post. Working as a doula has brought me so many colorful experiences that I cannot begin to even categorize them all. One thing that is very true about my job is that it is amazingly complex and...

The Tale of the Placenta Procurement under the COVID19 Umbrella

My Plush Placenta Ok. I will admit that this actually not even close to the most bizarre placenta story I could tell, but it is still worth a read.  Backstory. Sometimes families hire me just to process their placentas. In those cases, I talk with them for a bit when...