Doula Ashley Santos

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Doula Ashley Santos ✝️ Mother🌙 Wombkeeper & Birthkeeper
🌀 Traditional Postpartum Doula
🪶Ancestral Healing & Ceremony
Holding sacred space for life, loss & new beginnings🕯️

So glad you’re here 🐞 Moving to a new city has been challenging for many reasons. Although somehow peace makes its way t...
09/15/2026

So glad you’re here 🐞 Moving to a new city has been challenging for many reasons. Although somehow peace makes its way to my soul. I have an inner knowing that grounds me when my mind starts overthinking. The what ifs, the should haves, all creep in. Thankfully my coffee is strong and my faith is stronger 👻

Making connections is a huge part of community and I can’t be apart of community without meeting all of you!
Please take a moment to say hello or drop your fav emoji and we can chat privately 🐈‍⬛✨

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7 months postpartum with this little love.Working up the courage to share our story.He’s tiny but mighty. Soaking up all...
09/11/2026

7 months postpartum with this little love.

Working up the courage to share our story.

He’s tiny but mighty.

Soaking up all the love from my babies especially this baby boy🩵🩵🩵🩵

09/11/2026

If you could go back to your early postpartum days, what would you do differently?

For decades, babies were bathed within hours of birth. But evidence now shows that waiting at least 12–24 hours, or even...
02/24/2026

For decades, babies were bathed within hours of birth. But evidence now shows that waiting at least 12–24 hours, or even longer, has powerful benefits.

Here’s why I encourage families to consider it:

✨ Protects baby’s skin – Your baby is born covered in vernix (that creamy white coating). Vernix is antimicrobial, moisturizing, and helps regulate temperature. It’s nature’s first skin barrier.

✨ Supports breastfeeding – Delaying the bath helps babies stay calm, regulated, and more interested in feeding. Early baths can cause stress and lower body temperature, which may interfere with that first latch.

✨ Improves temperature and blood sugar stability – Skin-to-skin time without interruption helps regulate baby’s body systems far better than early bathing.

✨ Encourages bonding – The golden hours after birth are sacred. Keeping baby on your chest instead of taking them away for a bath protects attachment and oxytocin flow for both mama and baby.

✨ Supports the microbiome – Leaving vernix and amniotic scent intact may support healthy bacterial colonization, which plays a role in immune development.

Your baby is not “dirty.”

Birth is not something that needs to be washed away immediately. 🤎

You can absolutely include this in your birth plan:
“I would like to delay baby’s first bath for at least 24 hours unless medically necessary.”

Empowered mamas make informed choices.

Much love,
Ashley Santos

Life Update: Pure postpartum bliss 🩵Baby Salem arrived 1/19/26 at 2:01 am 🩵Although I advocate for births out of the sys...
01/24/2026

Life Update: Pure postpartum bliss 🩵

Baby Salem arrived 1/19/26 at 2:01 am 🩵

Although I advocate for births out of the system, I am thankful for the inventions that are available with informed consent and necessary.

My baby boy most likely had a nuchal arm which significantly intensified the contractions and I could not bear through it. Three days of this intense pain, he came out in three pushes under five mins after I received an epidural and was able to relax.

I’m grateful for my amazing midwife , supportive birth team and my husband , and the drs and nurses at Loma Linda hospital.

I’ll be seeing clients in person in March but virtual consultations and prenatals are still available 🙏

Much love,
Ashley 🌻

Enter on Instagram🙏🧡🍁🍁Autumn Postpartum Giveaway🍁1 Diaper Bag filled with 31 pack of Pampers diapers, wipes, burp cloths...
11/09/2025

Enter on Instagram🙏🧡🍁

🍁Autumn Postpartum Giveaway🍁

1 Diaper Bag filled with 31 pack of Pampers diapers, wipes, burp cloths, muslin cloths, a baby hat, baby mits, a pair of socks, two newborn onesies, a baby book titled ‘Don’t Tickle the Hippo’, Burt’s Bees Shampoo & Wash, 1 teething ring, 1 elephant bath towel, 1 size large nightgown for mom, and 1 box of Medea Nursing Pads donated by

Postpartum Massage donated by

45 min Virtual Therapeutic Session with

A Self Love Workbook from

Placenta Encapsulation from

A Knitted Baby Hat made by .doula

2 hour Nurturing Postpartum Care visit with

To Enter you must:
🍁 follow everyone tagged in this post
🍁 tag two friends in the comments
🍁 share and tag in your story

Giveaway ends 11/14. Must be located in the IE or High Desert due to service areas for providers.

Thank you to the women who have helped make this giveaway possible🙏🧡

All births are celebrated here 🌼Ive experienced a Cesarean, 2 medicated hospital births, 3 VBACs, 1 birth center, and 1 ...
10/24/2025

All births are celebrated here 🌼

Ive experienced a Cesarean, 2 medicated hospital births, 3 VBACs, 1 birth center, and 1 freebirth 🥰🧡

How about you? 🧡

10/22/2025

If anyone needs training… it’s parents.

Everything your little one does is BIOLOGICALLY normal.
It is what your baby was designed to do.

Frequent feeding? NORMAL
Always wanting to be in your arms? NORMAL
Hates sleeping alone aka the crib? NORMAL
Loves being rock? Considering the womb was a cradle…
yep totally NORMAL.

Now let me ask you this…

How often do YOU eat?
Do you like cuddling ?
What about sleeping alone?
If it were possible… wouldn’t you love to be rocked to sleep?

Babies aren’t meant to be trained.

We live in a society that rushes babies to grow up. From bouncers, to weaning off breast milk second solids enter the picture… everything is backwards.

Infants signal their needs for more than just food. They also need comfort, closeness and warmth… all of which they had in the womb.

Touch is fundamental to human communication, bonding, and health. As adults… we require human touch to thrive… and so do babies!

In just a short few years… your baby will be walking and exploring the world and they won’t need you as much as they do now.

So next time your little one is in need of your ‘assistance’ aka love and responsiveness, realize that they aren’t doing it to manipulate you or make you feel hopeless… they are doing it because they NEED you.

10/20/2025

Breastfeeding doesn’t just make milk.. it keeps the hormone prolactin high, which rewires her brain to be more alert, sensitive, and tuned in to the baby.

At the same time, hormones like estrogen and progesterone stay low, which affects her mood, energy, sleep, and even intimacy.
So if she’s more tired, more emotional, or more focused on the baby than anything else.. it’s not “just in her head.”

It’s biology.
Breastfeeding keeps her body and mind in a postpartum state for as long as she nurses. She’s not back to “normal” yet. She’s doing life-sustaining, body-altering, and emotionally demanding work every single day.

Thank you for the patience, understanding, and effort in taking care of her 🤍

Big shoutout and thank you to these women for holding space for those of us who have experienced Pregnancy & Infant Loss...
10/16/2025

Big shoutout and thank you to these women for holding space for those of us who have experienced Pregnancy & Infant Loss during the Wave of Light event.

This is the first time I’ve really acknowledged my two oldest children passed verbally speaking about them as miscarriages as I have held space for others.

It wasn’t until recently this summer during a healing session as I spoke the words “ I have been through this as well” that I asked myself have I really processed and healed from my previous losses?

During the event I created a memory box for my two angel babies. The box reads “ two souls kissed my womb and returned to the stars.” I remember the dates they were brought earthside so I wrote them next to two tiny stamped feet.

The past couple of months I’ve sat with this grief and truly acknowledged the 16 year old girl who felt she had to grieve her loss alone due to guilt and shame.

And the 22 year old young woman who felt slightly reliveed due to a domestic violence situation, which also brought up guilt and shame.

Going to this event with my children, pregnant and the support of my husband meant the world to me.

Although my youngest children don’t quite understand, I was able to explain to my oldest son what this event meant and why we were there.

Thank you again for welcoming myself and my family and holding space for the community 💜

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US 127
Signal Mountain, TN
37377

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Monday 10:30am - 7pm
Tuesday 6:30pm - 8pm
Thursday 12:30pm - 8pm
Friday 11am - 7pm
Sunday 10:30am - 2pm

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