Ashley Boren, SBD

Certified Birth & Bereavement Doula® serving Glenwood and Council Bluffs Iowa and Omaha Nebraska

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Wife and mother to four boys. Four angels. Cooking up double rainbows (twins) due this summer. I stumbled upon still birthday when I lost my third angel. My first loss I went about alone. It was a shock I was in that idea that it would “never happen to me”.  It took a long time to come to terms. After months of trying again I had my 4th son and first rainbow. I was scared after a hard pregnancy. We wanted more and so we didn’t prevent anymore. We then found out a little late I was pregnant again when my rainbow was 3 months old. I found out at the worst time. Being rushed to the ER dying in pain. My tube had ruptured due to an ectopic pregnancy. I was actually dying from internal bleeding. I then realized I was not immune and things DO happen. We then suffered a still birth of my first known daugther. Then another ectopic soon after. When we had our still birth is when I finally started looking for support and help. That is when I found still birthday. I found help, support and love. As well as understanding. I was NOT alone. After working as a mentor of miscarriage, still birth and early infant loss I realized I wanted to do more. I signed up, fell in love, dove into everything just wanting to help and let others know you are NOT alone. I want to walk the path side by side with others. The same path I walked alone, until I found still birthday. I have always had a passion for pregnancy and helping others. My goal from as far back as I can remember was that I wanted to be a midwife. I hope to help and be there for others the best I can. You are not alone.

 

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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