Interesting article from Midwifery Today about community birthing in a Jamaican hospital.http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/community.asp

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hP50wdNKi7d3tlLl_KBQWS1ube0wD9CAQRRO0

Birth is so much about swelling, surging, growing, stretching to maximum capacity, riding the waves, and being full to bursting. I want to take a minute to remember the importance of the spaces. The pauses. The rests. We spend so much time as doulas and birthing...

I think it is so important to know how little control we have over the birth process, as birthing women and as doulas. It hurts a little every time to have this lesson driven home. I think there is a secret belief that if we do everything right, like provide the...

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I am one annoyed doula tonight. H1N1 continues to plague our practices. Yves Bolduc, Quebec's Health Minister, said that he felt making a birthing woman choose between her husband or her doula in Montreal hospitals was, in short, paranoid. So despite the fact that I...

When: July 18th to 23rd, 2010 Where: Montreal (Morin Heights) Who: This training is for women who want to pursue a career in supporting women in birth. This can either serve as a complete professional for a career as a doula or as a stepping stone to a career in...

Oh, so tired! What a busy week ahead...days packed with pre and post natals, and goodness knows when babies will come and all will have to be rescheduled. But this is the gift of doula work...I never know what the day will bring. Life is never boring.I am full of...