We are delighted to have our article “Mothering the Mothers” in the current issue of Juno magazine (http://www.junomagazine.com/out-now-issue-41/). In it Sophie discusses the role that postnatal doulas fulfil, particularly now that most of us no longer live in communities or villages where there is extended family to support new parents. Sophie talks about the different ways…
The Independent publishes and article on doulas
By Sophie Brigstocke In Monday’s Independent (20th April 2015) Hannah Fearn discussed how more women are employing doulas to support them during birth due to the fear of not having support from midwives. Whilst we welcome positive reports of doulas in the mainstream press there are a few comments that need clarification. It is certainly true…
Beautiful birth images on our website and Facebook
We are delighted to be working with Jane McCrae, a birth photographer based in Sydney, Australia. In the hunt for images for our new website we looked at a lot of photographs and we felt that Jane captures both the beauty of birth, but also how doulas can support women during birth – with a…
Research into the value of Doulas
Nurturing Birth is delighted to have undertaken some research in to the value of doulas in the UK in 2013. This has been published in MIDIRS, the midwifery journal, in June 2014, and it was taken to the International Conference of Midwives in Prague. To read the full research article click here.