I wish all of you a beautiful New Year, full of love, health, joy, abundance, and discovery! I will be back soon!Love,Lesley

I had a lovely meeting with my partner-in-crime, the lovely Sue Appleton of Apple of Your Eye Doula Services in St. John, NB. She is facilitating the Summer 2010 MotherWit Birth Doula Training Intensive that I will be teaching in Morin Heights, Quebec. I believe very...

Whoohoo! As of tonight until the night of the 26th, I am completely off call!!!!! This is a rare occurrence, and I am revelling in the idea of being able to sleep deeply not caring where my phone is. I leave any potential early birthers in the good hands of my doula...

Hooray! The sun is once again reborn, and the days will become longer. As we enter into the birth of the light, let's take a moment to be grateful for this amazing momentum we advocates of normal birth are building to help heal the long dark age of unconsciousness...

Phew, it's brutal out there! It is freezing cold outside and we have been doing lots of Christmas shopping. Thank goodness we're home, warm, and dry. It's so nice to relax on Friday nights and know I don't have to get up early Saturday morning to get the kids off to...

I had a great meeting today at a hospital I spend a lot of time doing labour support at. I am SO blessed that one of my former holistic doula students is one of the nurse policy makers of obstetrics there. She is a homebirthing mama herself, and is mired in an...

I just enjoyed a lovely meeting with the MotherWit crew and our clients. We got to provide information for couples wondering about doula support. We connected with pregnant clients who wanted to meet our backups, and to meet up with other parents-to-be. A couple of...

This blog isn't about the dying we sometimes see in birth, which is certainly painful. I have been present for the still births and deaths of some babies, and this is tragic.Rather, I would like to reflect upon the experience I had sitting with a friend tonight who is...