Finding and Hiring A Labor Doula
Building a labor support team is a vital piece of conscious preparation during pregnancy in preparation for birth and life with the very newborn. Today as part of that support team many women are...
View ArticleA Guide to Finding Your Doula
Building a labor support team is part of conscious preparation during pregnancy for your labor, birth and life with the very newborn. Hiring a labor doula continues to gain in popularity for the...
View ArticleCould this be labor?
For first time mamas, previously induced mamas or those who have loads of prodromal labor, getting a handle on the nuances of when labor is going to start or if it is lasting labor can be really...
View ArticleDoulas and Home Birth
Is there benefit to hiring a doula for a home birth? I say YES absolutely. As a seasoned doula who has attended home births as labor support and now an intern midwife who clinically supports the...
View ArticleScavenger Hunt Contest
Preparing for Birth is having an online scavenger hunt to ring in December. You could win this cute pocket diaper. Here is the scavenger hunt: Answer: 1) How many births has Desirre Andrews...
View ArticleDad Matters – A doula’s perspective
Many men in our culture are fairly apprehensive about birth. Most have never seen a real birth, or talked about it outside of sex ed. They are often nervous about birth itself, seeing their partner in...
View ArticleNuts & Bolts: What exactly am I paying my doula for?
Next to finding a good personality fit in a doula, financial concerns are probably the biggest factor in choosing which doula to hire, and many potential clients ask me exactly what the fee covers. In...
View ArticleBeing A Doula
Being a doula, for me, is not about changing hospital policy, or steering women away from “bad” providers. It is not about disseminating information to every client. It’s not about birth plans. It’s...
View ArticleLife Lessons Found As A Doula
Being a doula has taught me… I have to disappoint people I love sometimes. At any moment, I may have to leave people I care about high and dry while I bolt to the side of a mother in labor. Babies...
View ArticleI Am A Doula
Doula. I am a doula. Those words, filled with so much meaning over the years, were my starting point in this birth journey I’m on. Doula is a weighty word. It’s a very different role than almost any...
View ArticleIt’s World Doula Week!
How are you celebrating?! Share your own video response in the comments on YouTube! Who are the doulas in your life? The post It’s World Doula Week! appeared first on Preparing For Birth.
View ArticleA Doula For The Dying: 5 Things I Learned at My Father’s Deathbed
Almost three years ago, I packed up my four children and drove to Oregon to help care for my father. His melanoma had metastasized to his spinal fluid, and everything that could be thrown at it to kill...
View ArticleA Doula For The Dying, Part 2: 5 More things I learned while doulaing my...
When I set out to be by my father’s side in 2012, I had no idea what to expect. My sister and I both lived in Colorado Springs, so naturally we caravaned to Oregon together. We talked about it a lot....
View Article5 Things Midwives, Doulas, and Postpartum Moms Love
As I was in the shower today, after two births in 24 hours–one in the hospital as a doula, the other at home as a student midwife–I was appreciating the perfect temperature of the water, the smell of...
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Intangible Reasons
Image from imdb.com My husband and I watched “Away We Go” last night. It’s a movie about a pregnant couple’s quest to find the place where they want to give birth and raise their baby. Along the way,...
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