https://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/what-is-a-doula/ For a growing contingent of moms-to-be, doulas have become just as essential to the childbirth experience as taking omega-3s and getting down with hip-opening yoga squats. There’s a good reason for that—studies have shown that by enlisting the help of these trained pregnancy pros, mothers are more likely to deliver healthy-weight babies and successfully breastfeed, while being halfContinueContinue reading “YOU CAN NOW DOULA YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, FROM BIRTH TO DEATH”
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What Does a Doula Do?
http://www.birthzang.co.uk/2016/09/doula/ (click link to read the entire interview on birthzang.co.uk) I got asked today whether I support women who already have a birth partner, usually their life partner, and yes I do. I think being a doula supporting almost 100 births, I must have done maybe five where there wasn’t also a birth partner present.ContinueContinue reading “What Does a Doula Do?”
Why Doulas are Expensive (and why you’re glad they are)
http://www.cordmama.com/blog/2015/3/23/why-doulas-are-expensive-and-why-youre-glad-they-are I spent all of my 30 hours of early labor at home, and most of my six hours of active labor there as well. I continued to delay calling my doula, not knowing how much longer I would be laboring, and certain that I needed that “tool” in my tool belt to realize myContinueContinue reading “Why Doulas are Expensive (and why you’re glad they are)”
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