Sentences with phrase «labor doulas work»

And because our labor doulas work in teams of two, you can be confident in knowing that the doula by your side in labor will be one you know and trust.

If the demands of labor doula work won't yet fit into your lifestyle, or if you're looking for an additional service to add to your business that allows you the convienence of scheduling, becoming a childbirth educator is a great way increase your revenue and establish yourself as the expert in your community.

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She has been a labor and postpartum doula for the past four years and has worked on our team for more than two years.

When I work with families to help them prepare for their labor and birth as a childbirth educator, or when I walk their labor path with them as a birth doula, my purpose is to help them achieve those very goals.

The doula is there as someone who really knows birth, who can help families navigate labor and who works to protect the space for the birthing couple.

Naomi Hannah is a midwife who has worked in several birth settings: she has been a Doula, a Certified Professional Midwife, a labor and delivery nurse, and is now a Certified Nurse Midwife.

I have been working professionally in the world of birth and labor support and childbirth education since January, 2004, though I attended my first doula birth in 2001.

This 12 - hour hands - on workshop is designed to prepare birth doulas with the tools and skills to provide extended labor support services to home birthing families and the strategies to work cooperatively with the home birth midwifery team.

Since my doula training, I have begun work as a Labor and Employment attorney in Manhattan but take every opportunity I can to offer informational support to expecting parents and to act as a back - up doula and attend births as my schedule allows.

Labor and Delivery nurses are hands - down some of the hardest working, most caring people we interact with in our roles as doulas.

Most postpartum doulas do not work on call so you will want to make sure she can accommodate a last minute request if you go into labor spontaneously.

Some labor doulas might offer this as a service as well, however many labor doulas need to rest and recuperate after the hard work of birth support, so check in with your doula about utilizing her backup doula, or another postpartum doula she knows.

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After working as a childbirth educator and attending a couple hundred births (as a doula — labor assistant) in birth centers, homes and hospitals, I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of women intuitively gravitate to which location, type of support and «methodology» is best for themselves and their unborn babies to achieve a safe passage through the giving birth / delivering experience.

Doulas help families to feel supported, easing the emotional experience of birth and also helping to create a space where the hormones of labor can work at their best.

As Tallahassee's longest standing labor doula, Melissa has made it her life's work to support birthing families for over 15 years.

Whether it's a partner, a doctor, a doula, a midwife or a loving nurse, a laboring woman isn't the only person who should be working when she brings a baby into the world.

Andrea is certified with ProDoula as a Labor Doula, pre-certified as a Postpartum Doula, and is currently working on her certification as a Childbirth Educator with ProDoula.

Ask for recommendations from local doulas, labor and delivery nurses and fertility doctors, they know who's the best in the area because they work with so many providers!

She co-founded The Birth Place, the first resource center for pregnancy, birth and new parenting and one of the first independent birthing centers in the U.S. Located in the shadow of Stanford Medical Center, The Birth Place was where formal training of doulas began in the U.S., following up on the pioneering work of labor «monitrices» in the 1960s.

She's also worked as a labor and deliver nurse and as a D.O.N.A. trained doula.

We offer: Labor Doulas / Birth Doulas Postpartum Doulas Bedrest Doulas Overnight Newborn Care AKA: Baby Nurses / Night Nurse Childbirth Education Classes Hypnobirth Doulas Hypnobirthing Classes Childbirth Coach Training Labor / Birth Pool Rentals Belly Casting Newborn Care Classes Breastfeeding 101 Classes In - Home Breastfeeding Support Gentle Infant Sleep Training Sleep Training / Sleep Consultants Baby Planners Where do we work?

Erica (my doula) arrived at 7:30 am and got straight to work positioning me to relieve the back labor.

Birthing from Within Advanced Mentor Retreat with Virginia Bobro, 2017 Doula Trainings International Doula Training with Jackie Davey, 2017 Creating a Culture of Breastfeeding in the NICU with BreastfeedLA, 2017 Diversity, Determinants, and Disparities in Maternal Mental Health, 2017 Hypnobirthing for Birth Professionals with Ellie Shea, 2017 (certified 2017) Working with Diverse Populations in Maternal and Child Health with Shafia Monroe, 2017 Changing the Paradigm: Social and Historical Trauma, 2017 Seeking Safety with Treatment Innovations, 2017 Holding Space for Pregnancy Loss with Amy Wright Glenn, 2017 Working with Childhood Trauma with Echo Parenting, 2017 Breastfeeding Full Circle with Dr. Jack Newman, 2016 Art of Sacred Postpartum and Mother Roasting with Sara Harkness, 2016 (certified 2017) Birth Story Medicine Part I with Pam England, 2016 Supporting Perinatal Mental Health as a Doula with Sonia Nikore, 2016 Prenatal and Postpartum Nutrition with Elizabeth Kotek, 2016 Sacred Blood Mysteries Online Class with Sacred Living, 2016 Birthing from Within Introductory Workshop with Virginia Bobro, 2016 Supporting Breastfeeding as a Doula with Kate Zachary, 2016 Homebirth Caesarean Workshop with Courtney Jarecki, 2016 Return to Zero Training for Supporting Fetal and Infant Loss with Kiley Hanish and Ivy Margulies, 2016 Acupressure for Pregnancy, Labor, Birth and Postpartum with Abigail Morgan, 2016 Becoming Dad Workshop with Darren Mattock, 2015 Diversity Roundtable for Birth Workers with Debra Langford, 2015 Babywearing for Doulas with Laura Brown, 2015 Co-leader, BabywearingLA, 2014 - 2016 DASC Director of Hospitality, 2014 - 2015 Co-leader, Silver Lake meeting of the International Caesarean Awareness Network, 2013 CAPPA Lactation Educator Training with Christy Jo Hendricks, 2013 (certified 2015, recertified 2018) Acupressure for Labor and Birth with Abigail Morgan, 2013 Essential Oils for Doulas with BluJay Hawk, 2013 Babywearing for Birthworkers with Laura Brown, 2013 Rebozo Techniques with Angela Leon, 2013 Massage Techniques for Doulas with Jenna Denning, 2013 Breeches, Twins and VBACs with Stuart Fischbein, 2013 DASC co-Director of Development, 2012 - 2013 Co-founded Two Doulas Birth, 2012 Spinning Babies Training with Gail Tully, 2012 Featured as the Doula Expert in LA Parent Magazine, 2012 Advanced Doula Training with Penny Simkin, 2012 CAPPA Postpartum Doula Training with Darla Burns, 2012 (certified 2014, recertified 2017) Yoga Instructor, Yogavidala, Los Angeles, CA, 2011 - 2012 Billings Ovulation Method Teacher Training, 2011 CAPPA Labor Doula Training with Angie Whatley, 2010 (certified 2011, recertified 2014, recertified 2017) CAPPA Childbirth Educator Training with Angie Whatley, 2010 (certified 2011, recertified 2014, recertified 2017) Neonatal Resuscitation Program Workshop with Karen Strange, 2010 (certified 2010) Herbs and Homeopathics in the Care of Women and Infants, 2010 The Farm Midwifery Center Midwife Assistant Workshop with Ina May Gaskin, 2009 Birthing from Within Introductory Workshop with Pam England, 2009 Iyengar Yoga Introductory I Assessment passed, 2010 Yoga Instructor, Eastern Sun Yoga, Memphis, TN 2008 - 2011 Yoga Instructor, Evergreen Yoga Center, Memphis, TN, 2009 - 2011 Eastern Sun Yoga Iyengar Teacher Training with Lou Hoyt, 2008 - 2011 Audubon Yoga Iyengar Teacher Training with Karin O'Bannon, 2010 - 2011

Parents of two children, they bring their personal experience of childbirth, as well as countless births Juliette has worked at as a D.O.N.A. certified doula to this workshop, developing a variety of touch support techniques, breathing and physical postures to help ease the laboring mom and empower the partner through labor.

Benefits to working with a doula are discussed in detail and include reducing the need for cesarean births, shortening the length of labor, decreasing pain medication, and enhancing bonding and breastfeeding.

Much of the work and support that doulas provide is done before labor ever starts.

In fact, sometimes in labors, doulas will be in another room while partners work together through contractions allowing for special intimacy and privacy.

She was calm and soothing the entire labor and worked awesome with my Doula.

She works as a birth doula and her prenatal classes are a great place to learn, relax, and to prepare for labor and birth.

Obstetricians, midwives, labor and delivery and postpartum nurses, doulas, childbirth educators, lactation consultants, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, infant mental health professionals, pre - and postnatal yoga instructors, early childhood educators, counselors, or anyone interested in the health and well - being of families, infants and children may well find the program of value to their work — and their lives.