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 [...]
Want To Change Birth Tomorrow? Talk to the teens in your life today. From what I can see, the decision about where to give birth and how to cope with labor is made long before conception. Unlike previous generations, [...]
Back Door or Front Door? In Jennifer Torres’ article, “Breast milk and labour support: lactation consultants’ and doulas’ strategies for navigating the medical context of maternity care”, the author makes a declarative statement. She says that both professions [...]
A World Where We Didn’t Need Doulas Maybe it comes from being weaned on Star Trek reruns but I’ve often contemplated alternate universes. The kind where if a different decision had been made the whole future course of humanity would [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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