by Matt DeVriendt | Sep 24, 2020 | Origin Stories, Parenting
Why I’m here I’ve known I wanted to be a Dad from a very young age. The vague memory I can muster of the first time it came up is my devoutly religious mother giving me my first Bible. (That’s right, I would be gifted many more Bibles over the course of my life,...
by Abby Larsen | Sep 19, 2020 | Advocacy
WE ARE BACK!! I got to attend a birth the other night. That doesn’t sound super exciting to most of you, after all, I am a doula. It’s what I do. But like countless other industries that were affected by the novel coronavirus and its subsequent disease,...
by Stephanie Freeman | Sep 12, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, The F Word
Lately, unless people go into labor before their EDD, induction is the chef’s favorite on the birth menu. And here’s the fucked up thing. It’s never “just an induction”. It always sounds like something scary could be happening. It’s...
by Stephanie Freeman | Sep 5, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Reproductive Justice
Stephanie here. I used to have a blog called The Cranky Doula. I didn’t tell anyone about it because I was worried about seen as adversarial. Seen as anti-establishment. The irony of many doulas is we get looked at like we have “issues” with the...
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