Doulaing at Christmas: How can doulas plan their holiday period? By Sam Sheppard “Boundaries… yeah, yeah” I hear you say, as you roll your eyes and take a big sigh. It’s all we harp on about, right? But what do they actually mean and how easy is it to actually implement them? As the festive…
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Doulas Supporting Families With: Positive Induction Birth
By Jade Gordon My Top 5 Tips for a More Positive Induction Jade Gordon shares her top tips on having a positive induction of labour. Nurturing Birth’s series of specialist articles are written to help you to help your doulas clients, so do feel free to share these articles with your clients, and, of course,…
Doulas Supporting Families With: A Diagnosis of Down Syndrome
By Sarah Ojar When a family discovers that their baby has, or may have Down syndrome, it can be news that many people struggle to immediately accept. There is often so much negativity surrounding a diagnosis of Down syndrome during pregnancy that there is often an expectation from family, professionals and wider society that the…
How should I price my doula services?
By Charlotte Bailey When setting up your doula business, one of the most fundamental things you need to decide is how much to charge for your services. Setting your pricing correctly from the outset is an important part of your business success – although don’t worry, you can tweak it as you go along, too!…
What am I doing wrong? (Why am I not getting doula clients?)
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…
Victoria White – My Journey to becoming a doula
By Victoria White I first heard about doulas when I was pregnant with my second child. I had really struggled during my previous postpartum, and I was looking to source some more support second time around. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any doulas working in my local area. But I did come across the Nurturing Birth…