By Sophie Brigstocke This week a new doula was sharing that she hadn’t got any clients yet and wondered what she was doing wrong. It’s been almost twenty years since I stepped into self-employment and I can still remember those early days when there was more fear than excitement around making it work. It was…
About Doulaing
“But I don’t know enough to be a doula!”
By Michelle Every When people connect with me, as they look into training to be a doula, I often hear the same theme coming up “How do I make sure I know enough?” “Will clients expect me to know everything about birth or the early days with a newborn?” “I am worried that the client…
Anne Glover – Becoming a doula: My Story!
By Anne Glover Anne trained as a doula with Nurturing Birth in June 2015. Since then, she’s been a full time doula based in Northern Ireland. Are you primarily a birth or postnatal doula? I love doing both birth and postnatal doulaing, but the demand seems to be primarily for birth doulas here in Northern…
Matrescence: The untold story of a Mother’s becoming…
By Charlotte Bailey No one told me it would be like this. I had wanted a baby since my teenage years. I’d craved the closeness of a newborn, fantasised over the kind of happy, centered mother I’d be and yearned for the love shared between parent and child. However, when my first child was born,…
Why I became a Doula – Booney Smith
Being the second eldest and with seven siblings my doula journey started early on in life. I was blissfully unaware that I would still be in a position to be doing something that I love to this day and with a confidence that has grown over the years. My career path before becoming a doula…
Christmas Gifts for birth workers!
Here at Nurturing Birth we’ve curated a list of the most amazing Christmas gifts for birth workers. Why not ‘accidentally’ send a link to your friends and family, post it on Facebook as a hint, or just treat yourself so you know you’ll get the gift you really want this Christmas! Hang it all out…