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…
Training to be a doula
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…
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…
Doulas only support natural birth … and other myths
By Sophie Brigstocke I had a conversation the other day with someone who really wants to be a doula, but she was doubting her ability because she ended up having a caesarean when her baby was born – not the birth she had planned. She felt that somehow she wouldn’t qualify as a doula because she hadn’t had…
Birth Rights and Birth Choices
By Sophie Brigstocke This week the press reported a legal case involving a young woman who has agoraphobia. In advance of her birth her NHS care providers went to court to get legal consent to transfer her to hospital (against her wishes and with “proportionate” force) prior to labour. Whilst we can only rely on the media story…
To all Midwives everywhere, Thank you!
By Sue Bryant Musings on Midwifery life: On International Midwives’ Day, Susan Bryant shares her story of being a midwife who has now trained to be a doula.Since qualifying as a post graduate midwife in 1988 I thrived on the variety of work that was the midwife’s role. Rotating around the various specialities of Delivery…