The Birth of a Logo.

Written By Tamara Niedermann

Tamara the Birth Doula has been in business for over a year. I have been using Vistaprint to design my business cards and they were nice, but they were generic. I also have had my picture as my main image for my social media pages, and I didn't love that. We all want to be represented well by our marketing. When we create our marketing materials we want potential clients to feel something, and birth business is no different. So, I started to think about what I wanted in a logo.

Now, let's rewind. (Side note: do kids these days even know why we say rewind anymore??)

Last December, my sister was shopping in Philadelphia when she found an incredible necklace at Old Blood Jewelry & Wears that reminded her of my birth work. She gifted it to me and it has been one of my favorite pieces. Make sure you check them out, you won't be dissapointed!

Seriously, look how beautiful it is!

I knew almost instantly that this necklace would be the inspiration for my birth business logo. It is so reminiscent of all things birth and baby. I wrote Morgan, the owner of Old Blood Jewelry, and asked her if she would be willing to let me use her charm as my logo, and she graciously granted me permission.

I reached out to Bekah from Strasen Designs LLC to help make this into a reality! I have worked with her in the past when I was teaching a lot about Essential Oils and selling them with DoTerra and I knew she would to an awesome job! I sent her pictures, and I shared a bit with her about my birth business. We emailed back and forth about my vision for the logo, and the fonts that I liked, and in a couple of days I had my logo and I am so happy with it. 

Tamara the Birth Doula, and Placenta Encapsulator

I am so excited that my business is growing. This is just one more step towards having a successful business. A business that allows me to support women and their families. A business that not only supports me financially, but that fills my spirit with purpose and fulfillment. 

Thank you Morgan for allowing me to use your beautiful piece to brand my business, and thank you Bekah for taking what I saw in my heart and bringing it to life! 

You can find Old Blood Jewelry & Wears on Etsy, Facebook, and Instagram

You can Find Strasen Designs on her website, Etsy, and Facebook.

Grace & Peace

Tamara Niedermann

hi! i'm tamara, creator and owner of the kindred feminine. i have always known i am at my best when i was in support of the people around me. i surrounded myself with deep connections -- people who i could know and live life with. that desire for deep relationship is what has guided my journey to birth work, herbalism, and supporting the birthing and bleeding people in my community.

six years ago, when my younger sister and her husband started their parenting journey, she started sharing the things she was learning about pregnancy and labor. i watched documentaries with her. i read the books she recommended, and i realized that there was another way to birth your babies. until that point, the idea of home birth and midwives and doulas were sort of a joke. in movies and television they portray midwives as the hippy lady with incense and beads -- which to be fair that midwife exists and now i strive to be worthy of her -- but she's played as a joke. it took these books and documentaries, and new perspectives to show me that midwifery and doulas are legitimate callings, and home birth is a legitimate option.

simultaneous to my birth worker journey, i was coming into a better understanding of my womanhood and i wanted to have more holistic options for interacting with my fertility. so, i transitioned from hormonal birth control to the sympto-thermal method of fertility awareness to track my cycles, and then i switched out my single use menstrual products for reusables. both of these changes gave me a deeper knowledge of my cycles and my body

my growing love for fertility and body literacy combined with my heart for birthing and bleeding people and pregnancy, started me on this incredible journey of learning, and growth, and stewardship of the wisdom that has been passed to me.

the kindred feminine serves all birthing and bleeding people by supporting pregnant people prenatally, attending out of hospital births, and in the postpartum time. tamara teaches bodily autonomy through the fertility awareness method. i processes placentas, and makes herbal preparations including teas, baths, salves, and tinctures and elixirs.

i'm a bisexual cis woman who uses the pronouns she, hers, and her. i’m a newlywed in my early thirties. i'm the daughter of an immigrant single mother. i'm an advocate for fat positivity, body hair acceptance, lgbtq families, body literacy, and bodily autonomy for all people. i'm a birth keeper, and an herb

https://thekindredfeminine.com
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