My Story: First becoming a Doula, then starting the second only (at that time) prison-based Doula program in the Country, then two miscarriages in one year; to finding myself being childless NOT by choice, and now coming full circle with building my organization for justice-involved pregnant and parenting women to become future Doulas, has truly been a journey through my passion, my purpose, my pain, and my hope.
Read moreShame
This poem is a reflection on my mother's and my story, and the shame attached to, in her case having a child and in mine not doing so.
Read moreA Childless Mother's Struggle to Accept Being CNBC
Hello, my name is Juliandra and I'm almost 34 years old, married to my husband for 4 years, and we are childless not by choice.
Read moreMy Eyes
Hell bent on a fairytale
Our second miscarriage floored me. Caught up in the excitement of sore boobs, relentless peeing and nausea, then a painful sharp twist in my abdomen and I just knew that was my future disconnecting from me.
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