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Who BEcomes a Doula? A Baby Bump Services Blog Series

29.10.2010
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On BEcoming a Doula

What do you do? I am a doula. What is a doula? I have a better question…WHO is a doula? Who are the women (and men) who are able/willing/longing to do this? How did they know they wanted to? How did they start? What keeps them going? To find out the answers to these, and many more questions, I have chosen to conduct my own interviews of some of the many doulas who have influenced and inspired me and some I would like to know better. To make these interviews interesting (and to get to what matters to me) I am modeling some questions after Brene Brown's Inspiration Interview Series, To say that discovering Brene Brown changed my life is an understatement. I continue to be amazed...

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Just “BE” and you’ll find “YOU ARE”

28.10.2010
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On BEcoming a Doula

In the August BEcoming a Doula™ Training the discovery of the power of being present with a laboring woman and the connection and sense of safety that occurs as a result was a joyful and exciting realization for all the women in the workshop. The collective epiphany of this simple truth was magnified through the experience of the practical ways we do this—starting from our first interactions with a pregnant woman and her partner. To celebrate and honor the collective appreciation we all had for BEing doulas, Natalie Taylor came to the final day of the workshop with a precious gift for us all. Natalie had gone home to look up the word “be” in Greek and then, in between days of the workshop and...

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