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. [...]
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 [...]
It’s Your Turn to Make Doula History Lately I’ve thought a lot about what’s left after someone is gone – and who tells their story. It has made me really think about who is going to write the story of [...]
“To Heal and Protect”: Attending Birth Doula Trainings for Personal Reasons A small but influential group of people attend birth doula trainings not to become doulas, nurses or midwives, nor to positively influence births in other jobs, but [...]
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 [...]
What U.S. Birth Professionals Need to Understand About ICWA The Indian Child Welfare Act – why is that relevant to my practice?The laws concerning children’s rights changed earlier this year. Although standards vary among the 544 tribal nations [...]
Hospital Agreements: An Opportunity For Engagement [Part II] If a doula agreement is being waved in front of you, congratulations! It means that your doula community has gotten too large to ignore and is having enough of an impact [...]
Hospital Agreements: The Wrong Solution for the Right Problem Birth doulas are concerned about hospitals requiring signed agreements in order for them to practice their livelihood on the facility’s grounds. Some agreements outline scope of practice behaviors and [...]
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