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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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