Looking to learn the evidence about healthcare in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum? Interested in engaging in advocacy and reproductive justice? Wanting to hear real stories from real people about real births in real life? Here are some of our favorite podcasts to engage your mind and guide you on your journey ..read more

Happy Mother's Day to you and your loved ones, from all of us at Family Ways! We'd love to see you at one of our upcoming classes, workshops, or support groups. Sign up today and save 10% with code MOMSDAY15 -- our Mother's Day gift to you! Enjoy your special day ..read more

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Happy New Year!! Congratulations to all of us for making it through this year! This year has been odd, to say the least, and we've been in a place of reflection for a long time. This is another reflective post -- as this year comes to a close, I want to take one more moment to focus on some of the highlights of this unbelievable year. But first, story time: The day after Christmas, full of socially-distanced holiday cheer, my daughter and I were dancing in the living room when, for no discernible reason, I fell directly onto my own face. She followed immediately thereafter and landed bottom-d ..read more

I have such exciting news! Thanks to a generous grant, we've been able to establish a fund to offer birth and postpartum services on a sliding fee scale for individuals and families with limited income or facing financial hardship under COVID-19. Sliding-scale services are available for our Basic Birth Package and our Support Sleep Postpartum Package. We are offering virtual services widely, and in-person services as possible. Limited spaces are available, offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We're accepting applications for families with estimated due dates before July 1, 2020. Pleas ..read more

Good news, folks. We made it through April. It might have been a wild and crazy mess of a month (it certainly was for me!), but now we're in May, and it seems like the world is taking a collective deep breath and making plans for a new way forward. We still have no idea what the next few months are going to look like, and we're rewriting the rules as we go. But in all that chaos, there's a lot of hidden opportunity. Here are a few of the amazing opportunities that have evolved over the last month: We're now able to offer sliding-scale services for families facing financial hardship. We've se ..read more

These are strange and unexpected times we're living in. I know everyone is struggling, and our collective stress is at its max. But I want to tell you about some things that are making me happy right now: We have the privilege of living with the technology and other tools that allow us to stay connected... even remotely. We are several months into this worldwide pandemic, meaning we already have quite a bit of knowledge about how to manage it. We might not be making all the right decisions all of the time, but at least we're not starting from zero. This is a respiratory virus, not a gastroin ..read more

Well, March has certainly been an exciting month already... and we're not even two weeks in! For those who have been following the unfolding plumbing saga of our Family Ways office, I am delighted to announce that we are almost back in working order! We hope to be fully operable by next Monday... just in time to limit our office use as part of our ongoing effort to help reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The CDC has issued Frequently Asked Questions and Answers for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) and Pregnancy. At this time, we do not believe that our doulas or our clients are at si ..read more

New in 2020: Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Classes and Professional Workshops! Register now for the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class! Our first class starts February 12, 2020. Get mentored by your own Evidence Based Birth® Instructor! Learn about evidence based care, comfort measures, and advocacy! Get prepared, get answers, get empowered! This childbirth class offers a unique flipped-classroom experience -- students access learning modules from the comfort of their own homes, and then meet online weekly for mentorship. Two in-person classes bookend the series for additio ..read more

I've never been one to make New Year's resolutions -- if you know me, you know that I stay pretty well resolved all year long. Nevertheless, I had planned to start the year with a pop and an announcement of the many great things on our horizon! We have changes to our team, changes to our offerings, and plans for making our services even more accessible to our community as a whole! I've been looking forward to announcing these changes for months! Trust me, they're still coming. But our progress has been momentarily slowed by a minor plumbing catastrophe in our office. Long story short: cast ir ..read more