by Stephanie Freeman | Oct 10, 2020 | Advocacy, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent
Basic Kindness and Grown Ass Adults When I was a child, one of my favorite memories was from when I was sixteen. It was winter, and, like clockwork, I was sick. So, so, sick. Sore throat, fever, stuffy nose; your basic Nyquil commercial. I was in bed surrounded by one...
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...
by Abby Larsen | Aug 27, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Informed Consent, Parenting, The F Word
What We Do P. 2: The Nitty Gritty …And what we don’t do, because that is also important. We get asked what we “do” all the gosh durn time. And like Stephanie mentioned in her previous post (that I just conveniently linked for you to catch up...
by Stephanie Freeman | Aug 20, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, Origin Stories
So what do doulas… you know… do? The World: So what did your doula… you know… do? Me: Do? The World: Yeah, do? Did she massage you? Positions? Bring a unicorn? Me: HA! Not much. Not like that. I mean we called her and she showed up about 3-4 hours before...
by Abby Larsen | Jul 15, 2020 | Advocacy, Birth Trauma, Human Rights in Childbirth, The F Word
The Fear Culture that Follows Birth Maybe it was your mother, maybe it was your best friend. Maybe it was your Uncle Stan, your aunt’s creepy second husband who never knows when to stop. It could also have been your grandmother. Maybe it was all of them. Somewhere...
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