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Open Your Doors, Childbirth Educators! Why Not Teach Anyone Who Wants To Know About Birth?

Open Your Doors, Childbirth Educators! Why Not Teach Anyone Who Wants To Know About Birth? As a researcher, I’ve paid attention to two curious trends.  One, people are taking less childbirth education courses while pregnant.  Two, more people [...]

January 13, 2020|Business, Childbirth, Educators, Research, Social Change|
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Careful Now! The Black Pregnant Body is NOT Defective

When the Doula Screws Up Recent press has spotlighted the tragedy of more Black women and babies dying than Whites in the United States. It has amplified the voices of Black women and allowed more people to hear their [...]

May 18, 2018|Clients, Colleagues, Dark Side of Doulaing, Medical Care Provider (MCP), Physicians, Race, Research, Social Change|
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How the U.S. Women’s Movements Influence The Lack of Doula Research, Part IV of IV

How the U.S. Women’s Movements Influence The Lack of Doula Research, Part IV of IV The last major influence on why there isn’t pressure for more birth doula support research is that it doesn’t fit neatly into a [...]

January 23, 2018|History, Medical Care Provider (MCP), Research, Social Change|
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Doula Research Part III – Barriers To Approvals, Funding And Publishing Access

Doula Research Part III – Barriers To Approvals, Funding And Publishing Access Most people don’t know much about the research process or how difficult and time consuming it can be to publish in a peer reviewed journal. This [...]

November 29, 2017|Research, Resources, Social Change|
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Why The Doula Research We Need Doesn’t Exist: Part II – Medical Politics and Practices

Why The Doula Research We Need Doesn’t Exist: Part II – Medical Politics and Practices As a young woman, I naively thought that the evidence was so overwhelming that we’d steadily see doula research in major medical journals. [...]

November 6, 2017|Dark Side of Doulaing, Research, Social Change|
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Why Don’t We Have The Doula Research We Need? Part I of IV

Why Don’t We Have The Doula Research We Need? Part I of IV The Cochrane Collaboration updated their doula research review this year. They added four, only FOUR new studies – and none of them advanced our research [...]

November 3, 2017|Dark Side of Doulaing, History, Professionalism, Research|
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Who Are You And Why Should I Listen To What You Have To Say?

Who Are You And Why Should I Listen To What You Have To Say? Demands for transparency in science and accountability for potential bias in researchers are relevant to doulas because so much of what we do is [...]

September 16, 2017|Doula Ethics, History, Research, Social Change|
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Career Minded Participants in Birth Doula Trainings

Career Minded Participants in Birth Doula Trainings Its natural to assume everyone in your birth doula training was there to become a doula. Not so! Only about half the people are there because they want to do labor [...]

December 29, 2016|History, Nurses, Research, Social Change, Training|
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Take a Doula Training, Change the World

Take a Doula Training, Change the World Almost ten years ago I noticed many happy participants at the end of trainings but few people actually went on to become doulas. Being a researcher I decided to do a [...]

November 9, 2016|Colleagues, Myths, Research, Social Change, Training|
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Hard Research: Birth Doulas Save Insurers and Hospitals Money

Hard Research: Birth Doulas Save Insurers and Hospitals Money I am absolutely THRILLED to begin my new blog with my latest journal article, published in the Wisconsin Medical Journal.  In this collaboration, our team estimated the immediate cost [...]

July 17, 2013|Economics, Physicians, Research|
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