The Liberated Birth

For years, my work has spanned pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

But over time, one thing became very evident:

We spend months preparing people for birth, yet they often enter postpartum with just a six-week follow-up appointment and a reminder to call if something feels wrong.

I've sat with families in those early weeks. I've witnessed the feeding challenges, the identity shifts, the relationship changes, the physical recovery, the sleep deprivation, the isolation, the difficulties in transitioning from birth-home.

I've watched parents struggle to navigate one of the most transformative periods of their lives with little to no support.

Had they not hired a doula, many would have had no one at all.

The way we support families during the fourth trimester has lasting implications for their physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

And yet, postpartum is still treated as an afterthought.

That's why I made the decision to focus on postpartum.

The Liberated Birth book and curriculum span pregnancy, birth, and postpartum education.

Our hands-on services focus on postpartum support from birth through the first year, helping families feel informed and supported long after the baby arrives.

Through postpartum doula services, educational resources, and community support for birthworkers, we're working to create a culture that values postpartum care as much as pregnancy and birth.

We proudly offer daytime and overnight postpartum support for families throughout Washington, DC, Maryland, and Northern Virginia while continuing to develop evidence-based tools and resources for families and birthworkers alike.

This is the official introduction to The Liberated Birth.

Welcome to the next chapter.

https://www.theliberatedbirth.com

I had mastered the art of looking okay while falling apart internally. And postpartum exposed every survival mechanism I had mistaken for “being okay.”

I knew how to keep moving no matter how exhausted I was. I knew how to care for everyone else before I ever stopped to check in with myself. I knew how to smile through overwhelm, suppress frustration, and make pain look manageable.

I had spent years believing strength meant endurance. That if I could still show up, still function, still laugh, still take care of things, then I must have been fine.

But postpartum has a way of pulling everything to the surface. There is no room to hide inside of it. No room to outrun yourself.

The exhaustion, the identity shift, the isolation, the hormonal changes, the pressure to keep everything afloat while pretending you’re grateful and glowing through it all… it forced me to confront how disconnected I had become from my own needs.

I wasn’t resting. I was collapsing in private and performing in public.

And because I had been praised my whole life for being “strong,” nobody recognized the warning signs. Truthfully, neither did I… not until it was almost too late.

A postpartum spin on Tricia Hersey’s Rest is Resistance and framework, because the pressure to rush back, bounce back, host, clean, work, and care for everyone else does not disappear after birth.

New mothers deserve to lie down. To be cared for. To be fed. To be held. To be mothered. To let their bodies recover without guilt.

Postpartum rest is an act of resistance.

We’ve been lied to!

SnapBack culture has hijacked our minds and convinced us that a body that returns to its pre-pregnancy outer aesthetic is only granted to the chosen ones, those at the top of the hierarchy, the Grand Poobah’s of birth.

WRONG!

Every body is changed by and . Every body needs care after pregnancy and birth.

And our idea of a “good” postpartum body or SnapBack culture, is rooted in white supremacist beauty standards.

Because once “recovery” starts looking like thinness, flatness, and how quickly a body can erase evidence that it created life, we’ve lost entirely.

Another great review from someone who purchased The Liberated Birth Book… A.K.A. The HUGE LibBi book 😍

Do you all wanna know what section of my book is my ABSOLUTE favorite????

The breastfeeding section!!! I mean honestly, the book is 400 pages worth of awesomeness! I have many favorite sections 😍

Take a look! It’s inna book 🤣

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Maternal healthcare is becoming increasingly digital.
So how do we make these systems actually work for families?

I’m just a that has a LOT to say

Chillllllld! We’ve been pointing out fat hate and bias in birth spaces for AGES!!!! Anywho… for those who haven’t caught up yet… 📢 liberated birth requires liberated care.

OMG!!!!! The Liberated Birth book made its way to L&D at George Washington University Hospital !!!! 😭💛
Talk about !

The doula brought LibBi with her, and LibBi showed up like a mentor in a book, helping her in real time while she focused on supporting the family through birth. No need to Google!! the answers were right there at the .

https://www.theliberatedbirth.com/the-unboxing-video