Press Release 12th May 2022 Doula UK awarded £16,200 funding from the Safer Beginnings programme to provide postnatal doula support to those most in need. We are delighted to announce that Doula UK have been awarded £16,200 in funding from the Safer Beginnings programme, led by Best Beginnings and … [Read more...]
Doula UK Conference 2022
Recovery & Community About this event Doula UK Conference 22 Delegate Pack Main Sponsor MORI Doula UK present a dynamic and exciting programme with a range of topics to inspire, challenge and empower. We look forward to welcoming members, … [Read more...]
Doula UK Members Annual Return Results 2019
Each year Doula UK conduct a survey of our members to find out the impact and benefit of doula support and to help us shape our organisation. … [Read more...]
Baby Loss Awareness Week 2019
9 - 15 October Baby Loss Awareness is an opportunity: For bereaved parents, and their families and friends, to unite with others across the world to commemorate their babies’ lives. To raise awareness about pregnancy and baby loss in the UK. … [Read more...]
Rebecca Schiller – Doula UK Lifetime Honorary Membership
In late 2009 I started to look for a doula to support my husband and I through the pregnancy and birth of our first baby. Though I managed to give birth on the one day she wasn’t available, her presence before and after had made such a positive impact on our start to parenting that I decided to … [Read more...]
MBRRACE “Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care” highlights shocking inequalities
The fifth annual MBRRACE-UK report: Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care was published this month. While the number of women dying as a consequence of complications during or after pregnancy remains low in the UK (fewer than 10 of every 100,000 pregnant women die in pregnancy or around … [Read more...]
National No Bra Day
October 13th is a day where women all over the nation are encouraged to not wear a bra in order to promote awareness of breast cancer. On social media the tag #nobraday is used to highlight the importance of regular breast self-examination, screening tests and also to encourage gender … [Read more...]
Birth of a New Brain – Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder
Dyane Harwood has a B.A. in English and American Literature from the University of California at Santa Cruz. As a freelance writer she has interviewed acclaimed authors including Kay Redfield Jamison, SARK, and Anthony Bourdain. Dyane’s memoir Birth of a New Brain – Healing from Postpartum Bipolar … [Read more...]
European Doula Network Conference 2018 – Report from Vienna
By Hazel Acland Tree, Doula UK's EDN Rep Every year the EDN conference is hosted by a different member country, often in the capital. This year was no different with doula associations sending their representatives from 19 countries, namely; Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, … [Read more...]
Why Black Breastfeeding Week?
Black Breastfeeding Week was on the 25th - 31st August 2018, and 1-2-1 Doula & Breastfeeding Support celebrated Black Breastfeeding Week for the first time in the UK. There has been a look into what has been happening in the breastfeeding community of black families. It has been documented … [Read more...]
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