I am BirthStory’s writer and founder as well as a BEST certified Doula. I am a mother to three blue-eyed, beautiful children, soon to be six. For the past four years, my love Ben and I have been working hard on blending our family. We are so excited to get married, and all move in together, once and for all. Our tribe of eight loves to boat, ski, have star nights and hike the 4,000 footers of NH!
Most of all, we love Jesus and hope to one day start a ministry, together, serving children and teens. BirthStory came alive years after my babies were born. I was heartbroken that during my own postpartum periods, I was entirely unable to write. I never wrote down the events of my own births, while they were still fresh in my memory. I realized that although I missed the chance for myself, I had the opportunity to share my love for birth and writing with families all around the world. It wasn’t until I really started studying birth stories that I learned about the healing power of women telling their birth stories. Listening to a mother tell her birth story can be one of the most loving things you can do. Birth isn’t only about a woman becoming a mother, it is entirely transformational and a right of passage. Still, something was pressing on my heart. As part of many facebook, and in person mom's groups, I felt a void for genuine support and connection in our communities. Similarly to my research on birth stories, I started reading extensively about how women supported each other throughout ancient times. This lead me to my discovery of Doula’s. I will never forget the day that I was sitting on my mom's couch, my kids diving into my lap, and reading about Doula’s for the very first time. I let out a big “Mom, this is awesome!”. I continued reading. I read that, for ages, it was not unusual for an entire village of women to surround a laboring mom, comforting her, during birth. These women served one another in child bearing and rearing, day in and day out. In this same book, I read about how when an elephant is in labor, the female elephants make a circle around her so that she can lean on them. That is beautiful. It was that day sitting on my parent’s couch, that I decided that I was going to become a certified Doula! I felt in that moment that I struck gold for every women around the world. My own motherhood journey hasn’t been conventional; it’s certainly freckled with beauty marks, as well as many, many scars. I’ve had incredible sky- highs and deep in the valley- lows and it was in those moments that I gained the most wisdom. My pregnancies, births and postpartum periods were all vastly different. I have seen my own ideas, of the right and wrong way to parent, be rolled over with a giant steam roller, time and time again. Motherhood is an unpredictable adventure and all women need more support and less judgement then ever before. It is my hope that I can help hundreds, if not thousands of mom's feel a lot less alone during a very exciting, but challenging time in their life. Please, don’t be afraid to reach out. We all need that village around us, and I would love to be a part of your’s. With all the mama giving love inside my heart,
Fallon.
