Posted in Posts on May 5th, 2011
© Natalia Klenova | Dreamstime.com I’ve supported many women who are attempting a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). I love supporting these women. I’m not sure quite why, but I think it’s because I get to see women at their finest. Women who will stand-up for what they believe in, and who trust their [...]
Posted in Posts on Mar 18th, 2011
Becoming a mother has to be one of the biggest transitions in our lifetime. Really, I’d say it IS the biggest. When I found myself pregnant with my first son almost 13 years ago, it was pretty life altering. I guess it’s important to point out that I was in the middle of university, [...]
Posted in March Posts, Posts on Mar 9th, 2011
I was recently thinking to myself “gosh, it seems like the media spoke of plastic baby bottles being bad and within a matter of months, BPAs were banned in baby bottles in Canada”. Although I’ve known about BPAs since long before the media blitz and had already gotten rid of many in my home, it [...]
Posted in Posts on Nov 4th, 2010
I’ve realized lately that what I love most about being a doula is being able to witness the strength of a woman. I’m not talking about physical strength necessarily (although clearly some of that helps in labour too), I’m talking about the “no bull” strength that I see when a woman allows her body to [...]
Posted in Posts on Jul 29th, 2010
A mama roar bellows out and a baby is brought into the world. A baby’s first cry is heard. A mother accepts her newborn baby into her warm and loving arms and cries for joy as she looks down for the first time into her new baby’s eyes. It is magic. As her doula, I [...]
Posted in Posts on May 5th, 2010
The first time I heard the word doula was when I was doing my reading to become a Lamaze® Certified Childbirth Educator 8 years ago. It sounded like an interesting “new” profession. I put the word new in quotations because really it’s one of those professions that are as old as time. See, in the [...]
Posted in Posts on Apr 4th, 2010
I’ve thought a lot about my personal spiritual evolution over the past decade. For me it was as though something was stirring to gently encourage me to become a better person. Although this journey causes great turmoil, I’m so glad for it. Every few years I look back at what I knew and who I [...]
Posted in Posts on Mar 29th, 2010
Bullying 101: The Fight for Normal Birth Our country has a cesarean birth rate of more than 1 in 4, with many hospitals at 1 in 3. While I can appreciate some of the benefits modern medicine has brought us, it’s plain ignorant to think these come without a cost. The World Health Organization says [...]
Posted in March Posts, Posts on Mar 9th, 2010
As a doula and childbirth educator I find myself part of one of the most important and private moments of someone’s life: birth. Much more than “just another day”, it’s such a key moment. It can catapult a woman into the bliss of motherhood, or sometimes the pits of despair. And so, as I work [...]
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