Tag: support
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What is a doula?
Language Doula The word doula comes from an ancient Greek work for female slave. There are many reasons not to feel comfortable with that imagery. But doula as a modern western concept has developed a meaning of its own and is in common usage now as someone who provides non medical, social and emotional support…
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Birth Story
Why I wanted a doula and what I got out of having one. Often people wonder what a doula will actually do. This is a story of what my doula actually did but it’s not a story of what your doula would do that would be as individual as you are and your birth will…
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