Calculating your due date The first thing most people do after getting a positive pregnancy test result is look up a due date calculator. That’s how ingrained the idea of a due date is in our culture. We set up our prenatal care, schedule our parental leave from work, and announce our upcoming birth with …
Now Selling Gift Cards
Whether for doula or massage services, sometimes it really does take a village to fund the care you deserve! I am now selling gift cards that can be applied to any of my services. Start a doula gift card fund, give the gift of massage, and so much more with gift cards. If you’re looking …
An Open Letter to Utah Hospitals
To Whom it May Concern: My name is Dez Weyburn and I am a birth doula here in northern Utah. I support vaginal and cesarean birth. In my ten years of serving local families, I have watched hospitals make huge strides toward evidence-based and patient-centered care in Labor and Delivery. When I started as a …
Has it really been a decade?
Ten years as a doula… It feels surreal to say that, but it’s true. Last week marked ten years since I attended my first birth in a doula capacity. It has had ups and downs, slow times and crazy busy times, and I have learned so much! Without breaking it down birth by birth, here …
Heavy Thoughts on Birth
I attend births at any gestation. If my clients ask for me, I come. Many of the births I have supported have been bereavement births, and they are always so special.
Breastfeeding is “natural”: what makes people flounder?
The fact is that breastfeeding is very natural. It’s something most babies are able to do with the right support. The secret? It’s not natural like breathing. It’s not natural like your heart beating.
Simple things I wish all people knew: cervical dilation
Do you know how dilation in labor is assessed? It is assessed by nurses, doctors, and/or midwives inserting their fingers into your vaginal and feeling the cervix. It is so subjective that one nurse might say you’re eight centimeters dilated and five minutes later your midwife might check the same cervix and call you a five.