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…
Training to be a doula
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….
Cally Edwards: Training to be a doula
By Cally Edwards I work both as a birth doula and a postnatal doula, but I tend to get more enquiries about birth doulaing. My work before training as a doula had nothing to do with birth at all! I have worked in public and private art galleries since I’d completed my Masters in Museology…
Sam Sheppard: Why I trained to be a doula
Sam Sheppard is a doula based in Chelmsford, Essex, and is known as The Unapologetic Doula 😉 This is the story of why she decided to train to be a doula. I’m primarily a birth doula, but I also do postnatal work from time to time. I think, actually I know, that I tend to…
The importance of physiological birth
By Sophie Brigstocke My father, who became a farmer in his retirement, has a beautiful herd of Ruby Red Devon Cattle and there is something so special about being around them. Several years ago, when the herd was managed by someone else, I witnessed one of the first-time heifers calving. She was out in her field, surrounded…
Victoria Fox – My doula journey
By Victoria Fox Although I’ve not yet taken on any clients, this is my journey to where I am now and why I trained to be a doula! I first heard about doulas after I gave birth to my son in April 2020. I was speaking to a fellow new mum about how we would…