Resources
A gentle collection of the tools I trust and use—pieces that support grounding, clarity, and care.
Here you’ll find a selection of products I wholeheartedly recommend.
Simple things with purpose, gathered to steady you through pregnancy, birth, and the tender weeks after.
Getting Ready for Baby: A Birth & Postpartum Workbook
Feeling ready for birth starts with feeling grounded. This free workbook walks you through building your birth preferences, comfort tools for labour, and what to expect in the early postpartum weeks — written for families, from a doula who gets the nervous system side of it too.
Every doula needs a doula.
Meet Emily of Growing Together Doula Services. She's been supporting Muskoka families since 2017, and she's my mentor and my backup doula. If I ever can't be there, or I want a second set of experienced hands, she's a call away. You'll always have someone in your corner, and that someone is calm, steady, and endlessly kind.
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Offers compassionate, research-informed parenting guidance with clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy. Each episode blends practical strategies with emotional insight, helping parents understand their child’s behaviour while also tending to their own. Dr. Becky focuses on connection, resilience, boundary-setting, and the inner world of both parent and child — making complex psychology feel accessible and actionable.
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Explores Elimination Communication (EC) and early potty learning in a warm, judgement-free way. She shares step-by-step guidance, real parent stories, troubleshooting tips, and developmental insights to help families understand their baby’s cues and build a more connected, responsive bathroom routine from infancy through toddlerhood.
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Hosted by midwife and academic Dr. Melanie Jackson, The Great Birth Rebellion dives into the systemic issues, evidence gaps, and cultural patterns shaping modern maternity care. The podcast is both educational and unapologetically honest — empowering parents to advocate for evidence-based birth, bodily autonomy, and respectful care. Episodes blend research, clinical insight, and conversations with birth professionals worldwide.
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Hosted by licensed therapists, this podcast helps couples strengthen their relationship as they transition into parenthood. Episodes cover communication, conflict repair, intimacy, mental load, and the emotional impact of raising children. The tone is clear, compassionate, and direct — offering tools that help partners stay connected, collaborative, and resilient during one of life’s biggest adjustments.
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Music for your Birth
As a contemporary and ballroom dancer, I've seen what music does to a body. The right song can slow a breath, release a jaw, and turn tension into movement. It changes how safe and supported we feel, and that matters in labour.
These playlists were made by other people, and I've chosen the ones I'd trust in a birth room. Browse them, save your favourites, and build your own.
Let me introduce you to a little regalito:
Birth Reimagined: A 9-part, self-paced audio journey to help you prepare for birth from the inside out. Through guided meditations, journal prompts, and gentle rituals, it works with your subconscious to release fear and tension around birth — and gives you audio tracks you can bring into labour itself to stay relaxed and connected.
Waters of the Womb: A one-hour sound healing and guided meditation, designed to help you unwind your nervous system, release stored tension, and reconnect with your body. A beautiful practice for pregnancy, postpartum, or any time you need to come back to yourself. .
Use code: NATALIA20 for 20% off on either one or both!
Curated by Nancy Lucina
Nancy is a ceremonialist, sound healer, women's guide, and a mother of four. For over a decade she has supported women through life's transitions with ritual, ancestral wisdom, and embodiment practices, drawing on years of study with Indigenous Mexican elders. She believes every story is welcome and no one has to walk their path alone.
Books I recommend
As a fellow book lover, I wanted to share the books that first introduced me to doula care, and the ones that shaped the mindset and values I bring to my practice. Whether you're pregnant, newly postpartum, or just curious, I hope one of them meets you where you are.
The Midwife Box
Some of the most tender parts of pregnancy happen in the in-between; in the quiet of the evening, in the questions that surface at 2am. The Midwife Box was made for exactly those moments.
Each box is curated by Kate, a Canadian midwife, with midwife-written education and intentionally chosen essentials to carry you through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for something meaningful to turn to when you need it most.
These curated baskets are rooted in the same kind of care I believe in and bring to every family I walk alongside. I share it because it's something I'd genuinely want for myself.
Use code NATALIADOULA20 for 20% off your box.
Other Essentials I Love
Spinning Babies® Daily Activities
One of the simplest, kindest things you can do for your body in pregnancy is to move it gently and often.
This collection of easy, everyday movements like walking, stretching, gentle inversions, and pelvic tilts that help ease common aches, and create space for your baby to settle into a good position for birth.
3 Rs: Relaxation, Rhythm, and Ritual
When labour begins, slow, steady and signals to your body that it's safe to soften and open. It's also the foundation of Penny Simkin's 3 Rs: the people who cope most beautifully aren't following a script; they between contractions,t like a ritual, wave after wave. The power isn't in any single technique; it's in finding your rhythm and trusting it.
Take Charge Routine
Is a simple, powerful tool a partner can lean on in that moment: coming in close, holding you steadily, and offering a rhythm to follow so you don't have to think when it matters most, because at its heart it isn't about taking over, but being a grounding presence so you feel held, capable, and never alone.