by Brood | Oct 26, 2022 | Health Care
Content Warning: This post contains discussions of miscarriage, pregnancy loss and abortion. At Brood we believe you can’t talk about pregnancy, birth and postpartum without talking about miscarriage, pregnancy loss and abortion. Sharing about the full spectrum of...
by Ashley Jardine | Oct 25, 2022 | Doula, Loss
Content Warning: This post contains discussions of miscarriage and early loss. Due to its heavy content we suggest you take breaks when necessary, and check in with yourself. We also encourage you to have a support person accessible to you — whether learning alongside...
by Brood | Oct 8, 2022 | Our Brood
First and foremost, we want to acknowledge that we work and live on the unceded and occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Since time immemorial, the original peoples of these...
by Ashley Jardine | Oct 5, 2022 | Loss
Grief has always been a view in my periphery: around my third birthday, my maternal grandfather died. He was 45 years old. The misdiagnosed blood clot that took minutes to lodge itself in his heart spent decades slowly boring a deep hole of sorrow into my family. When...
by Anna Balagtas | Oct 4, 2022 | Doula
I have a confession to make: I used to be an incredibly judgmental doula. And no, before you ask, I would never judge my clients out loud and outright, but no one was stopping me from thinking about my judgments. I also would never go as far as to insert my own...