Written by Nurturing Birth doula and epidemiologist, Georgia Ladbury It’s now three years since Covid first arrived on our shores, and it’s hard to remember a time where we didn’t live alongside this disease. What’s more, with the world now chugging along as if nothing ever happened, it can be harder still to remember that…
Training to be a Doula
Neurodivergence and me – Sam Sheppard
“I can’t facilitate in person“ After 3 years of facilitating the Nurturing Birth Distance Course online and loving every second, this is what I told myself as I sat in front of the eager eyes of the new participants on my first Expansive ‘in-person’ course. All eyes were on me … and goodness I felt…
The four pillars of doulaing
I want to share something with you that may shift your perspective if you have been holding back on training as a doula, or starting your doula business. I’ve had many conversations with people recently where they say something along the lines of I don’t know enough yet to be a doula or I’ve…
My Doula Journey: Sophie Brigstocke
by Sophie Brigstocke I didn’t hear about doulas until 2007, by which time I’d been working in the perinatal world for a couple of years. I was enjoying a blissful Sunday afternoon reading some magazines and stumbled across an article about women changing careers. In it, one woman talked about having moved from being an…
Nurturing Birth Doula Training: Why doulas train with us!
After every Nurturing Birth doula training course, we ask for feedback from the participants, and the themes are the same every time. We though that we’d share some of these themes with you, as you try to decide which doula training company you want to train with, in your journey to your new doula career….
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,…