Sasha Marie Wild & Well 𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘚𝘚𝘙𝘖𝘖𝘛𝘚 𝘉𝘐𝘙𝘛𝘏 𝘒𝘌𝘌𝘗𝘌𝘙

08/18/2026

Hello, my beautiful friends.

I just wanted to hop on here and remind you that I am always up for postpartum doula shifts. I know the Lindsay Clancy trial has been stirring up a lot of emotions, thoughts, and conversations for so many women. If it has brought anything up for you, please know you don’t have to navigate those feelings alone. I’m here. However you need me.

Postpartum doula support can look so different from one mama to the next because your needs are what matter.

If you need me to come hold your crying baby so you can cry, that’s what we’ll do.

If you need me to sit beside your baby while they sleep so you can finally close your eyes and rest, that’s what we’ll do.

If you need someone to make you a snack, fold some laundry, help with the baby, or simply sit beside you and listen, that’s what we’ll do.

And if you just need someone to talk to, someone who will listen without judgment, without trying to fix everything, and without making you feel like you should have it all together, that’s what we’ll do.

There is no “right” way to be postpartum. There is no minimum amount of struggling required before you deserve support.

Please know I’m here in whatever capacity you need, completely judgment-free. I’ve been deep in those trenches myself, and I know just how heavy, beautiful, overwhelming, lonely, and messy those days can be.

You don’t have to wait until you’re drowning to reach out. 🖤

06/10/2026

In 2000, the Term Breech Trial ended prematurely concluding that caesarean section was safer for breech babies. The paper was later discredited. The methodology was flawed. The data was wrong.

But by the time the corrections came, the skill was abandoned. Surgeons prefer surgery.

Given the industry-wide lack of training and skills in physiological breech birth, most hospitals have a policy of surgery for breech presentation. Surgeons prefer this.

A client once asked her OB if she had vaginal breech skills. The OB responded “Of course. But if I did offer it, my colleagues wouldn’t like it. So I don’t.”

She essentially told her patient that due to her discomfort with peer pressure, the patient would be expected to submit to major surgery along with its risks and possible lifetime consequences. That’s not medicine. It’s immature nonsense.

It’s time the grownups stepped in and restored common birth knowledge back to common families. Search for a Breech Without Borders training near you. Become a more useful human.

Reply TBC2026 — the next cohort of Becoming a Traditional Birth Companion begins September 17, 2026.

05/27/2026

The system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed — it's just not designed for you.

If you want a rib steak with sautéed mushrooms, you don't go to McDonald's. It's not on the menu, it's not in the kitchen, and even if it were, they wouldn't know how to cook it. If you want a physiological, non-medicalised, autonomous birth, you don't walk into a hospital expecting to find one.

But most of us will touch the technocratic system in some way. So the real question isn't "hospital or home." It's this: do you know how to protect your birth wherever you are?

That's what Birthing Safely in a Technocratic Model is for. How informed consent actually works. What you're allowed to decline. How to spot coercion dressed up as policy. How to hold your sovereignty in a building designed to take it.

The replay is available now — comment 'REPLAY' and I'll send you the link.

Caveat: I'm not talking about you if you had a true emergency and skilled people who helped you. God bless them — I wish your story was everyone's story. I'm talking about the routine machine that treats every woman like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Fear is contagious. So is courage. Borrow some of mine.
And if you're called to go further, reply TBC2026 — the next cohort of Becoming a Traditional Birth Companion begins September 17, 2026.

05/25/2026

Here's the part of Canadian history they never taught you.

Before Confederation, the practice of midwifery was made illegal in order to prop up the business of the all-male Canadian Medical Association. They believed that if they attended a birth, they would have customers for life.

Some midwives remained in places that couldn’t afford a community doctor.

But by and large, families found the doctors too expensive and not particularly useful. So they called the neighbour. She had common birth knowledge and common birth skills. Her name went in the family bible as the ‘midwife’ to record the birth.

The new doctors were so unskilled that into the 1880s, McGill's own teaching hospital still relied on outlawed midwives to show its medical students how to attend a birth, until physicians pushed them out in 1887. Let that sink in.

In the 1950s, public health in Toronto went door-to-door trying to convince women to leave their homes for the hospital — where, as a population, women were 4x more likely to die and 10x more likely to be maimed. My own grandmother was convinced it would be safer for her 10th baby to arrive in a hospital. She haemorrhaged on a hospital table and left 10 children behind.

Birth didn't get safer when it moved to the hospital. It got more profitable.

Caveat for those who are new: genuine medical conditions are usually best handled by medical people in a medical facility. I'm not talking about your particular situation. I'm talking about a whole system built on a lie.

No one is coming to save us. It's up to us. It's time to re-train the neighbour — with more knowledge and better skills than she's ever had.

More on this history — McGill's own archives describe how midwives staffed its teaching hospital and taught medical students to attend births into the 1880s: https://200.mcgill.ca/faculties/faculty-of-medicine-and-health-sciences/university-lying-in-hospital/
Become a Traditional Birth Companion with our next cohort beginning September 17, 2026. Reply TBC2026 for the link to learn more and to begin your application.

04/29/2026