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We believe our mothers & parents make better decisions when they’re informed and confident. Our blog is here to help you do just that. Along with our candid point of view and personal stories, our blog has helpful information no matter what stage of parenting you’re in.

5 Tips for Pumping at Work

by Lacey Morgan | January 13, 2020 | Featured, Postpartum | 0 Comments

As an exclusive pumper of a year and a half, I have gathered some tips that may make the transition and pumping at work easier for you and your baby! First, PICK your PUMP! Start in the months before delivery if you are able to… but if it’s already too late,...

Nitrous Oxide For Labor

by Lacey Morgan | July 27, 2020 | Featured, Labor | 0 Comments

A beautiful part of birthing in the twenty first century is our ability to choose the pain management tool that works best for us. For some, this is massaging hands of their partner and doula, heat and cool packs, electrical stimulation, epidurals or narcotics. For...

What Will it Really be Like When My Water Breaks?

by Laura Martin | May 4, 2019 | Featured, Pregnancy | 0 Comments

What will it really be like when my water breaks? You’re in your third trimester- you have made it so far! But uhhhhh what is next? Toward the final weeks of pregnancy there is often a common anxiety. Well, there may be a few things keeping you up at...

Find Your Bishop Score Before Induction

by Lacey Morgan | August 31, 2019 | Featured, Pregnancy | 0 Comments

When it comes to pregnancy, the only thing predictable is unpredictability. For example, you are given a “due date” and set your whole life for the next nine months based on that single day. Did you know, only 5% of women deliver on their due date? 80% will deliver...

Establishing a Simple Sleep Shaping Routine

by Lacey Morgan | March 6, 2020 | Caring for Baby, Featured | 0 Comments

Sleep is a hot topic in parenting. What to do is often debated in parent forums. Here at KOP Doulas, we support each family’s right to choose. If you wish to follow your baby’s cues, we support you fully and many of us have followed that parenting style. Others of us...

How to Know if Your Baby is Ready for Solids

by Lacey Morgan | January 28, 2020 | Featured, Parenting | 0 Comments

Often times parents are so excited to introduce food to their babies that they start much too early. I did it. With my first, my family encouraged me to follow in their footsteps and give the baby a taste of all things yummy. I didn't know how to tell if my baby was...

Don’t Force My Kid to Kiss You

by Lacey Morgan | July 5, 2017 | Featured, Parenting | 0 Comments

I was raised in a large Italian family. If you know anything about an Italian family, you know we love food, talking (with our hands), and one another. When it was time to leave family events, we would say our goodbyes...to every...single...family member. Saying...

The Golden Hour & Newborn procedures

by Lacey Morgan | May 29, 2020 | Featured, Postpartum | 0 Comments

I want to share a story that often gets left out of most birth stories. It's about the golden hour and newborn procedures that follow. For the purpose of this article we will assume it was vaginal delivery in the hospital, but all that follows is similar after a...

The Best Way to Feed Your Baby

by Lacey Morgan | January 6, 2020 | Featured, Parenting | 0 Comments

Like many things in our society, the preferred method to feeding our babies has followed a pendulum swing throughout the decades. Prior to 1865 breastfeeding whether yourself or with a wet nurse was the only way to feed your baby. Then a shift. For a few decades,...

Survival Guide for Going Back to Work

by Lacey Morgan | January 17, 2020 | Featured, Parenting | 0 Comments

I’ve had to transition back to work four times in my parenting journey thus far. The first I was home for 14 weeks. The second, 5 months and the third, almost 15 months after her birth. The fourth time I had a chance to be home without a newborn and instead enjoy my...

The Benefits of Therapy for the Journey into Motherhood

We live in a society where motherhood is an expected ideal for a woman. The unfortunate truth is that these visions in our minds and expectations from society (and often ourselves) are not reality. There is great power in talk therapy. Find out how therapy can help you or those you love.