We Need ALL Kinds of Doulas
We Need ALL Kinds of Doulas No we don’t. We don’t need doulas that lack integrity, who interfere with a mother getting an epidural or a cesarean, or who say nasty things to their clients about hospitals, doctors, [...]
Should Doulas Offer Free Services Is The Wrong Question
Should Doulas Offer Free Services Is The Wrong Question It seems every doula with a blog has weighed in on the “no free births” debate and every doula with an opinion has expressed it on Facebook. The debate [...]
Labor Support – You Mean That’s A Profession?
Labor Support – You Mean That’s A Profession? In my twenty-five years of offering labor support professionally, there is one persistent challenge that our profession still faces: that of legitimacy. While people may be more knowledgeable about what [...]
We Need To Create Social Change That Values Caregiving
We Need To Create Social Change That Values Caregiving Recently I wrote about how we needed to increase the value of doula care in the minds of consumers, caregivers, and third party payers. If we are to create a social [...]
