Laura Palmquist Birth Services

05/25/2024

Made these yummy peanut butter protein balls for a postpartum client. She loves them, and so does her husband!

01/22/2024

Come join me and other local doulas at this free event!

08/22/2023

This! People often think as a doula I get to hold all the babies. While I do love the babies I became a doula to hold the mom.

Don't forget to hold the new mama as much as you hold the baby 🥺

5 years from now, the baby will not remember who held them. But the mama will forever remember who held her!

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07/23/2023

I am excited to launch my website! Check it out at laurapdoula.com
To celebrate the launch of my website I'm offering 200 dollars off any of my packages with a contract signed on or before August 30, 2023. Please share with anyone you know who might be in need of a doula.

As the cornerstone of my doula practice, I seek to empower mothers and families to make decisions that are best for their individual pregnancy and birth. Labor and birth is a very vulnerable time and it can be challenging for even the most outspoken and confident woman and her partner to speak up fo...

05/11/2023

This training was amazing! I am so glad I took this training!

Training the next generation of Advocate Doulas! I’m so thankful to have been invited to include my Keeping Your Power ® for Doulas in a Doula training taught by Miri Halliday in Spokane, WA.
My heart is full and my eyes filled with tears when an attendee stated “I feel so empowered after taking Traci’s training and going into the these next days of training.”
Another attendee said, “Advocacy sounded so unreachable but you made it understandable, palatable, and simple to implement.”
Y’all. This.
Do you want to feel more confident and empowered in your advocate role as an Advocate Doula?

05/08/2023

What an incredible weekend! This group of ladies are wonderful and I was very blessed to get to spend the weekend learning so much from them! I've been on a break while growing my own family but I am back and ready to take clients! If you or anyone you know is looking for a birth doula I'd love to chat!

10/17/2021

Beautiful and so true!

When you are envisioning your best birth, is there vomiting? When you think “perfect unmedicated birth” are you standing in the shower, enjoying the hot water, having contractions and pooping on the floor? When you picture yourself in the birth pool just before you start to push your baby into the world, are you crying and begging God to help you while telling baby to just please come out because you can’t do it anymore? When you imagine how your homebirth will go, are you so sleep deprived and exhausted that you “pass out” after each contraction and can barely respond to the people around you in between? When you push your baby out in your best natural birth experience are begging someone to make it stop because “it just hurts so bad!” Natural unmedicated childbirth is not a Disney cruise ship experience. You don’t just take a Dramamine and have a great time. You can have the beautiful birth environment all decorated with the string lights and the perfect music and your affirmations and be screaming “oh my God I just want to die!” as you wait for the next contraction to push your baby out. Birth is HARD. Birth is messy. Birth is unpredictable. Birth pulls you into a primal existence and brings you to end of yourself. Labor and Birth may mean you find yourself sitting on the toilet, rocking back and forth, ugly crying with snot running down your face, while you’re dry heaving and having a contraction while your partner holds your hand, the doula holds a cool cloth on your head and the midwife holds the puke bowl. And they’re all telling you “you’re doing great sweetie!”Sounds terrible doesn’t it? But that’s the beauty of birth. It’s the hard and messy and the unpredictable that brings the sleep deprived, primal surrender that allows us to step into ourselves and out of ourselves to bring our babies into the world. It’s a deep accepting of the journey for all that it is and sometimes, there’s vomiting.