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A Guide to Getting Started Between observing my young adult children and their friends, as they figure out their life paths, and supporting my doula clients , who desire to stay home with their new babies rather than return to work at the end of their FMLA , I often find myself thinking about cool ways to live and expand while young and free. The current economy along with my positions in art, natural products, perinatal, and activist spaces has people regularly asking me

This is simply a list of suggestions that may support a healthy perinatal experience and general lifestyle.

A basic overview of my services and our relationship. Doulas provide non-medical/non-clinical support for birthing people. Naeemah Afi Patterson is a Maternity Care Coalition trained, PA state certified, perinatal doula ; as well as a Healthy Children's Project trained, Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice   Certified Lactation Counselor  specializing in supporting BIPOC (Black Indigenous People of Color) birthing people for prenatal, birth and postpartum best experiences

I am still tracing that idea of birth with dignity between my own birth, birthing my children, and my doula training . . .