Like having
my experience as a birth worker and then of course my midwife is a dear friend of my mine, my doula is a dear friend of mine.
Not exact matches
I shall be reflecting largely from my own
experience,
as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that
experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social
workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give
birth to the world.
I am an RN, clinical social
worker and psychotherapist who works with women
experiencing depression, anxiety or PTSD
as a result of a traumatic
birth experience.
It wasn't until I participated in an online webinar through GOLD Learning's Online Symposium on Childbirth Education with Penny Simkin, entitled, «The Tipping Point (s) in Childbirth Education & the Consequences of Ignorance,» that I really understood how these changes were affecting my practice
as a
birth worker and impacting the
experiences of the clients I served.
Her role
as a
birth worker is to support the
experience each family desires emotionally, spiritually and physically, and to smooth the bumps in the road that accompany this unpredictable, yet incredible journey.