Parting gifts 🎁

Three days before I left Alaska, this sweet faced baby girl entered the world. It was such an emotional birth for me because I’d known mom almost a month at that point. Yall know I cried my eyes out when she got here. By the way, Mom handmade the #qaspeq (shirt) and boots (mink fur

My first Bethel Baby!

(written 3/22/2019) I got off work near midnight last night, but decided to check if anyone was in active labor before I left. There was! So I went to introduce myself and see if she needed some support. Things were off to a slow start but progressed rapidly in the wee hours of the morning.

Actually doing the work

Doula services for Native Alaskan women

Four weeks in..

I’ve been in Alaska almost a month now. Some days it feels like much longer than that. It has been both refreshing and stifling being up here. I’m starting to memorize faces, names, and people’s quirks. I now have two roommates, and thank you Muva Gawd we all get along. They work opposite shifts and

Polar Bae

Soooo.. I put in my two weeks’ notice October 26th. Didn’t have a solid backup plan but I knew I wanted to do something else. Got a travel job (for a lab) that following Tuesday. Moved in yesterday. Today was orientation. I am living in Bethel, Alaska for the next six months! More details coming