"Local doulas" refers to professional birth assistants who are available in your specific area or community.
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Ruth formerly served as Assistant Director at a local, non-profit, community doula program that matches teen - aged and no - to - low - income parents
with local doulas for free services.
Babywearing workshops followed, initially in collaboration with my friend Tory at her (now closed) shop, Next In Line, and then, after an invitation
from local doula Robyn Berman, at Uncommon Kids in Halifax and Pillars of Health in Dartmouth.
If you are on a tight budget, you can contact these organizations or
local doulas who might know a student doula - in - training who can offer services on a volunteer or by - donation basis.
Once you have a list
of local doulas, you should set up interviews to meet each one available around your due date.
If natural birth process is something you would like, check
with local doulas and / or midwives in your area.
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!
Our local doula group has adopted the elephant as a mascot of sorts and we celebrate our own pregnant doulas with special Blessing Way gatherings.
I borrowed an infant scale from
a local doula, I counted wet and dirty diapers and I nursed my baby what seemed like continuously to give him all the milk he needed.
Having
a local doula, Jen Hammond, volunteer her time to provide breastfeeding support groups every Thursday at 1:30 pm is instrumental to new moms in the HRM community.
«She is considering having parenting groups in her space and plans to network with
local doulas and midwives to help educate about attachment parenting, natural childbirth, breastfeeding and homebirth.»
She has been a trainer with CBI since 2015 and is active in her community, serving as a leader of
her local Doula Share.
Hospital nurses, public health units, lactation consultants and
local doulas are other invaluable resources supporting moms in the early days of breastfeeding
It is updated and cared for from
your local doulas with quality pregnancy books.
In our education class they also partner with
our local Doula foundation and when I went into labor my nurse commented they love Doulas and was glad I had one.
Talk to
local doulas and childbirth educators.