Being a Birth Guardian aka Doula
I love what Wonderfully Made Bellies and Babies Blog posted about being a doula.
Being a doula IS amazing.
It has it’s challenges (phone calls at 2 AM, being on call),
but as Nicole says,
I believe that a doula can help a woman to reclaim the beauty, strength, and humble respect of the rite of passage to motherhood called childbirth.
It is powerful and such an honor to help women with this.
Here are some of my experiences in my life as a doula aka a birth guardian.
Twitter: enjoybirth
says:
I have actually had 3 different times with back to back births. Let me tell you, it is exhausting!
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Thank you so much for sharing these!
Typically, what is your schedule like? That is, how often are you teaching classes and how many births/month do you take on?
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Twitter: enjoybirth
says:
I typically teach 1 class a week. Which ends up being about 7 class series a year.
I usually have about 10 clients a year. I try to limit it to 2 a month and I like to take the summer off. It is too crazy to be on call during the summer for me right now.
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Thanks for replying. And how many weeks is a class series?
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Twitter: motheringmayhem
says:
Really interesting post! Back to back births – wow!
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Twitter: enjoybirth
says:
Hypnobabies Live Course is a 6 week series. I like to leave an extra week or 2 between classes in case I am at a birth for a class and need to push the classes back!
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Thanks, again! Seems like you have a great system set up.
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