Kelly Colvin
Thinking of Introducing Solids to Your Baby? ...

Skip highly processed options and focus on natural, nutrient-dense choices. A colorful plate exposes your baby to different flavors and textures—and can inspire you to clean up your own diet, too!

Thinking of Introducing Solids to Your Baby? Here Are a Few Tips
Kelly Colvin
How Protein Supports a Healthy Pregnancy

Getting enough high-quality protein can help lower the risk of preterm birth, gestational diabetes, high blood pressure, low birth weight, and preeclampsia. In short, protein helps build a healthier foundation for both you and your baby.

How Protein Supports a Healthy Pregnancy
Trainings, CBE Trainings
Kelly Colvin
Virtual Childbirth Educator Training

Childbirth educators play an essential role in pregnancy. As a childbirth educator, you can empower families as you help them understand the birthing process, and their options for birth, supporting them in their desires for a positive birth experience.

Virtual Childbirth Educator Training
Thoughts about Birth
Kelly Colvin
Voyage Utah Magazine Article

It’s not just about a healthy mother and baby—it’s about a healthy mother and baby AND a mother that feels confident and capable of caring for her child. When women come to their births prepared through quality education and with the proper support, they are much more likely to feel prepared for motherhood.

Voyage Utah Magazine Article
Postpartum
Kelly Colvin
A Joyous Time—The 4th Trimester

The world becomes more beautiful and we live life with greater gratitude and purpose with the arrival of a new baby. Babies also take up a lot of time and it's helpful to anticipate our needs so we can better care for our babies. Here are some tips to make the postpartum period, also known as the "4th trimester" easier and more joyous.

A Joyous Time—The 4th Trimester

doula

Tiffany Scheel is a Mindfully Prepared Birth childbirth educator, birth doula, and VBAC doula

I have been drawn to babies, pregnant women and the birthing process since I was young. As an 8-year old girl, I KNEW I wanted to be a Labor and Delivery Nurse. I worked as a Certified Nurse Assistant for several years on the Mom/Baby Unit at Intermountain Medical Center in Murray.

Just as birth is unexpected, my career path took an unexpected, but beautiful course as I learned I did not want to pursue a nursing degree.  After having 4 children of my own and being a stay at home mom, I decided it was time to get back into the birth world. Each of my babies had their own unique entrance into the world ranging from an emergency cesarean to a home birth. In 2022, I became a birth doula and a Mindfully Prepared Birth Instructor.

I have an incredibly nurturing heart and want the best for everyone I meet. I truly enjoy watching each couple learn together, support one another and then achieve the birth of their baby. A lot of how women view their birth experience is how supported the woman feels during the time surrounding their birth. It is my goal for every woman to feel empowered, embraced, and supported during this beautiful, transitional time of her life.

St. George, Utah Doula

St. George Utah Doulas

Transformation - Going Beyond Your Physical Form

Transformation - Going Beyond Your Physical Form

Transformation is an amazing time, an exciting time; a time of stretching and allowing not only physically, but also spiritually and emotionally. You are opening yourself up to becoming a mother to this baby. It is a thrilling, exciting, and challenging endeavor. Whenever we are learning, stretching and growing it takes patience and it calls for great strength and courage.

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Matthew's Birth-VBAC

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Matthew's Birth-VBAC

I am so glad that I found Hypnobabies. I loved the Joyful Pregnancy Affirmations. I feel that they helped me to be more confident during pregnancy and during my birth. The Hypnobabies program is fantastic! I love telling people that I loved my birthing time, and I really did. I was actually sad when it was all over. I highly recommend taking the Hypnobabies course. The live class is so great because you can ask questions and get to know other couples who are making similar choices for birth, much like a support group. I also encourage a hypo-doula. Kelly was such an asset to my birth team. She allowed Mike to take much-needed breaks and support me on a level that only a woman can. Even when she was just sitting next to me holding my hand I felt her strength.

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How To Prepare For A Natural Childbirth

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How To Prepare For A Natural Childbirth

This blog post is from our doula client Elizabeth. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and author of the blog, Enjoy Every Bite. Thank you Elizabeth for sharing how you prepared for the birth of your beautiful baby boy! 

This topic has been on my mind for several different reasons. I recently had a conversation with a pregnant friend who called her OBGYN’s office explaining that she wanted a natural birth. The receptionist’s response was, “We don’t do that procedure here.” Wait, what? You don’t let a woman deliver her baby without medication?

Jax's Birth Story

I pretty much thought that I would go over my "guess date" because I've never gone into labor with any of my other babies early. My guess date was June 18th. Secretly I wanted him to be born on a even number (or even better the 28th) since all of our birthdays are even numbers.  I guess I'm just weird like that! When my due date came and went we were trying everything under the sun to get him to come. We ate at Pepper's Cantina a few times, always ordering their spicy salsa and sauce over my enchiladas.  That night I would feel more pressure waves start, but they always stopped when I got up to go to the bathroom.  I really felt like I might be pregnant forever!  

Elizabeth's Story

Elizabeth's Story

Growing up I had always planned on getting an epidural during labor, but I found myself reevaluating that decision when I was actually pregnant for the first time.  I did a lot of reading and talked to several friends who had experienced an unmedicated birth.  This appealed to me and I decided I would also try to have a natural childbirth.

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