Sentences with phrase «work of the birth doula»

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Her work with her busy doula and birth photography business, Apple Blossom Families has not only helped individual families to have more positive births, but also has been hugely successful at increasing awareness of normal birth and breastfeeding practices through her photography.

Our system works for all families regardless of structure, identity, or birthing location, and is taught by myself and another experienced doula, Jennifer Kelley of Belly to Bliss Birth Services.

After the support of her doula in her second birth she realized the importance of doula work and felt that she had found her calling in life.

We are not the inventors of doula work, nor the originators of professional birth and parenting support.

In March of 2005 I began my journey to doula work by attending a DONA birth doula training in Atlanta with the amazing Rae Davies.

When I worked as a doula I came complete with a bag full of flameless candles, a CD player, «birth» music CDs, aromatherapy, massagers and all other sorts of mood enhancing items.

Doulas and Dads work together as complementary parts of the Mom's birth team.

I also finally understood, and connected with all of those women I had read about in blogs who wanted to tell anyone and everyone about their amazing birth story; and I had a new respect for the amazing work that doulas do.

A trained birth doula and mother of six beautiful children, I am so happy to be working with families as part of Everyday Miracles.

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.

It is there that I spent the next 14 years working with a group of the most amazing people helping to better the infant mortality rate through Doula supported births, Childbirth education, and clinical lactation.

In the six years that I've worked as a Birth Doula, 99 % of the births I attended, before working with the team at Believe, were in hospitals on Long Island -LSB-...]

Amanda is co-founder of the Hudson River Doula Network and seeks to continue to improve the dynamics of birth for every individual she works with.

HOPE LIEN: I worked as a birth and post portem doula and a lactation counselor myself and so a few years ago when we decided to just start the adoption process I knew from doing some breastfeeding training myself that I would possible turn this lactation but I didn't really know I guess the details of that first and what I meant.

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.

It is designed for trained, working birth doulas and focuses on helping newer doulas grow their birth doula skills, increase their efficiency, avoid burnout, expand their business, and learn to balance their work as a birth doula with the rest of their life.

A doula's tools include praise, reassurance, encouragement, active listening; I will support your choices and work to protect your memory of your birth experience.

Doulas and Dads work as complementary parts of the Mom's birth team.

around midnight i began to question my decision to have a home birth, & maria was getting tired... she called in a second midwife for support & my doula arrived from another birth... i was afraid of the power - i hadn't felt it like this in kayenn's birth... i was afraid that i would come apart - even though i had to - i know now that coming apart is a part of the process... someplace in the middle of this birth i realized that i did not know how to do this - i was acting against the birth process - literally & emotionally... i had a mental idea of what it should look, sound, smell, be like... after some hours maria checked me again, i had been at 9 cm for 4 hours... she said to me, «some babies can come through at 9 cm, but yours will not, sokhna... sokhna, you are going to have to fight to bring this baby out... go into the bathroom, get in the shower & work it out... «so i did... i went in the cold bathroom alone & remembered every cold detail of kayenn's birth... i wondered if i could get to the hospital on time to have an emergency c - section & i began to cry... & as i cried i had to go to the bathroom - i sat on the toilet & the rushes came down like nothing i can explain - but they didn't hurt - it was just POWER!

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In time I learned that she was also a working mom of two, a birth doula, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant - in - training.

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.

Doula Group: Aspiring and experienced birth professionals come together to discuss the business and the spirit of birth work.

One of my favorite doulas in south Florida, Lisa Raynor (right) who works with expecting moms planning hospitals births in Broward and Palm Beach county, she is well known by nurses, OBGYNS and midwives in Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Northwest Medical Center, Broward Health Medical Center, and far far more.

After her second birth experience, attended by a doula, she knew this was the type of work she wanted to do.

Many of our surrogates work with midwives and doulas in the hospital setting and some hospitals offer alternative birthing options such as water birth.

Doulas working in the Greater South Bay Area and Peninsula will be on hand to answer your questions, offer personalized referrals, and represent some of the wonderful variety of backgrounds and skills you can find in a birth or postpartum doula.

Her work on the lasting impact of birth memories is foundational research for the entire doula profession.

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.

My doula work focuses on returning power to my clients — regardless of their philosophies and choices around birth, I want all birthing people to be respected, supported, and fully informed about their options.

The guide provides an introduction to full spectrum doula work — supporting people during all phases of pregnancy, including abortion, miscarriage, birth and adoption — as well as a discussion of how issues like race, class, immigration, gender and more affect our work as doulas.

She has been involved with doula and perinatal research and worked with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial, of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period for the past 35 years.

You will learn the role of the doula and the difference doulas are making in improving birth outcomes, how to get started and how to make it work in your life.

This was the catalyst that drew her to Childbirth International for training as a Childbirth Educator, Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula; to work with, and in support of, women and mothers — her sisters.

While Ana Blechschmidt is a certified birth doula who works in this regard, she also specializes in the end of life, helping people pass on.

Hannah's 15 years as a nanny and several recent years as a birth doula made her especially suited to working with newborn families of all kinds, and she has a special interest in serving LGBTQ families.

These passions lead her to the path of birth work and she soon became a doula.

Shafia's message calls us to the work of «birthing change» — increasing personal capacity, as health care professionals, doulas, and birth workers, that will ensure inclusion for better birth outcomes, and a world where all babies see their first birthday, and where mothers live to raise them.

A past president of Lamaze International, she now focuses her volunteer work with PATTCh, Skagit Valley Breastfeeding Coalition and W.I.S.E. Birth (a 3 county Doula Collective.)

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 1Birth 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 1birth 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 1Birth Place was where formal training of doulas began in the U.S., following up on the pioneering work of labor «monitrices» in the 1960s.

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

As a Doula, I work hard with couples to create space where they are informed, confident and aware of how to create the birth experience that they want.

Some are advocates of reproductive justice while others are considering birth work as a midwife or obstetrician and see doula training as a way to dip their toes into the water before making the leap into further education.

When we arrive at a birth, we find that dads and doulas naturally find their groove, working together to support the mom in a way that capitalizes on each of our strengths.

Darlings vision for diversifying her skill set is a strategy more doulas are taking on in hope of increasing their earning potential so they can sustain their career in birth work.

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.

Emma has been a birth and postpartum doula for 10 years and worked with hundreds of Seattle families.

Her calling to doula work came after the premature birth of her daughter, when she left a career in biochemistry to pursue birth work.

I have worked with thousands of women over the last 15 years as a birth mentor antental teacher advocate and doula and women who are able to work with their breathing and use it to support them in pregnancy and labour do better than those who can not.

Since then I have worked with hundreds of couples; supporting them in preparing for birth, in labouring and birthing, in breastfeeding and in parenting which makes me one of Dublin's most experienced doulas.