Hello all and welcome to World Doula Week! I have been asked to write “What Does A Doula Do?” and what I want to say is EVERYTHING and anything a woman needs. For me a doula is someone who supports and holds up other women, there are website doulas, midwife doulas, friend doulas, business … [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...]
Paula Cleary on how to provide excellent doula support without burning out
We dance on a stage that is painted many shades of grey. We offer a service that is as old as the hills, yet remains by its very nature a mystery. How can it be anything but? Most women having a straightforward pregnancy have a guess-date and birth might take half an hour or many days – as doulas we … [Read more...]
