Congratulations on your new addition! This is one of the most exciting and intense times of your life. Some people have compared pregnancy and birth to climbing a mountain. It gets more intense the closer to the end you get. When you are almost finished you may wonder if you can truly make it. But once you reach the goal, and see how beautiful it is, you will know it is worth every step. I cannot make the climb for you, but I would be honored to be your guide.
"The doula is concerned with the mother’s emotional experience first and foremost. The midwife must be concerned with the health and safety of the mother and her baby first and foremost. The doula is a peer, like a new friend with experience in birthing. When birthing in a hospital, the doula may be the only objective person a pregnant woman meets in pregnancy, has beside her through birth and spends time with after the baby comes.
Birth is personal. Trust is an intimate avenue to a physiological function. We can trust birth not just because of a statistical advantage, but because we live in relationship between our physiology and the people we love and have community with. Peace on both sides, physiological and in relationship, is a balance between the two. The doula seeks to clear obstacles to peace while the midwife steers clear of the obstacles of birth.
The midwife is an ancient role renewed to modern times. The doula is a modern role reflecting ancient times."
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www.SpinningBabies.com
If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.
- John H. Kennell, MD
- Judith M. Knowlton
- Dr. Klaus speaking on the Today Show
