Fruit of Labor Placenta Encapsulation

08/30/2026

Good for this momma! Mental health is so important, especially for us tired and overstimulated mommas! I had forgotten this, but ladies KC area, don’t forget IKEA has free childcare for an hour. Let those babies play and go enjoy a quiet cup of coffee in the cafe or just wander the store. Husbands - be sure to give your wives the support they need - being a mommy full time is a HARD job!

Kylie Grimes of Utah dialed 911 not because of a crime or medical emergency, but because she had reached her limit.

Her husband was working late, leaving her alone with their four young children. Two of them have Type 1 diabetes, requiring constant monitoring and extra care. Exhausted from weeks of sleeping less than two hours at a stretch, she was nearing 10 pm with dinner still unmade when her 11 month old son choked on soil from a houseplant.

"I realized I was not okay," Grimes later shared. "I needed immediate help and support."

When the 911 dispatcher asked the nature of the emergency, she replied plainly, "Me. I'm the emergency."

Her honesty about being an overwhelmed caregiver struck a chord with parents everywhere. Grimes admitted she was nervous about being judged but felt it was important to speak up.

08/30/2026

Postpartum is such a tender season.

There’s so much focus on the baby — feeding, sleeping, growing, adjusting — that it can be easy to forget that a mother is being born into a new version of herself, too.

Hormones shift. Sleep disappears. Emotions can feel bigger than expected. And even a beautiful postpartum experience can still feel overwhelming.

Placenta encapsulation is one way some families choose to honor and support their postpartum recovery, but it’s never a replacement for real mental health care, rest, nourishment, or support.

If you’re struggling after birth, you deserve to be cared for just as intentionally as your baby is.

Ask for help. Tell someone how you’re really doing. Let people show up for you.

Postpartum care should include the whole mother. 🤍

08/13/2026

I love love love this picture Amy got

1) The provider is in the background smiling, genuinely happy for this mom

2) The DAD is the one who caught baby and placed his son on his wife’s chest

3) DIRECTLY on her chest - not a blanket that is on mom’s chest, but actually truly skin to skin immediately as baby was born

This should be routine, normal, typical

And yet, here I am very excited (and pleasantly surprised)

This is why we encourage our families to choose providers who will listen to their desires for birth and work hard to make them happen

We can advocate until we are blue in the face (and will) but when our clients pick providers who support their goals and trust the process, we don’t have to!

Instead, we get to do what Amy did and can focus on capturing beautiful moments like this for our families to look back on and cherish forever!

08/02/2026

Happy World Breastfeeding Week.

Rumer Willis is breastfeeding her 3 year old daughter, and during World Breastfeeding Week, this is exactly the kind of visibility that matters. She recently shared a video nursing Louetta while refusing to apologize to people who judge her parenting.

Because breastfeeding does not suddenly become strange when a child has another birthday.

For some families, breastfeeding lasts weeks. For others, months or years. It may provide milk, comfort, connection, regulation, security, or simply a familiar place to land after a long day.

World Breastfeeding Week is not only about celebrating newborns at the breast. It is about supporting the entire journey, including the parts society still struggles to understand.

You do not have to breastfeed for three years.
You do not even have to understand why another mother does.

You simply have to respect that the decision belongs to the mother and child.

Thank you, Rumer, for showing the world that natural term breastfeeding is still breastfeeding. ❤️

07/25/2026

Ahhhh….the first trimester.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8tHLue6/

07/18/2026

Totally NOT placenta related - but Kansas City mommas - look at this AMAZING place to let your kids play. Wish this was a thing when mine were little!!

07/12/2026

Choose wisely….

07/11/2026

Just look at this beautifully cheesy baby! Leave that vernix on!