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4 Reasons to Become a Lactation Counselor if You’re Already a Birthworker
Lactation Professionals4 Reasons to Become a Lactation Counselor if You’re Already a Birthworker In the world of birthwork, we’ve all faced the initial overwhelm of the alphabet soup that is certifications. Do I need the CLSC, CD, PCD, IBCLC, CLC, or CLE...
Doula Practice 101: How Practicing as a Doula Differs in Hospital Settings vs. Home Settings
Birth DoulasDoula Practice 101: How Practicing as a Doula Differs in Hospital Settings vs. Home Settings By Jada Shapiro, founder of boober With over 20 years of experience supporting new families, it’s safe to say that I’ve taken part in births...
The Importance of Gender Affirming Support for Birthworkers
Birth DoulasThe Importance of Gender Affirming Support for Birthworkers In this article, we get a chance to meet and learn more about Moss Froom, an experienced doula, and birth educator who built a must-have course for birthworkers to help them s...
Lactation Restrictions and Challenges
Lactation ProfessionalsLactation Restrictions and Challenges: Functionality Fundamentals for Birthworkers & Holistic Solutions In June 2022, Dr. Linda Dahl (ENT) and Dr. Julie Capiola (Pedatrician & IBCLC at Premier Pediatrics) met to discuss the mechanics and...
It Takes a Village: Kim’s Story of Becoming a Doula
Birth Worker TruthsIt Takes a Village: Kim’s story of Becoming a Doula I am grateful to have had two positive birth experiences of my own in the early 2000s. My births were as unpredictable and dramatic as a birth can be, but because of the women support...
Delayed Cord Clamping
Birth Community NewsDelayed Cord Clamping (DCC): is it right for me and my baby? When planning for your birth, it can seem as though there are an infinite amount of decisions to make and even more information to consider. Here, we demystify “delayed cord ...
Transform doula burnout
Birth DoulasTransform doula burnout Just 3 years ago I was miserable. I was suffering from anxiety, insomnia and serious fatigue. All symptoms resulting from the work that I felt the most passionate about- birth work. It all started on the yoga ma...
Birthworker tips: contract & COVID clause
Birth Doulas, Postpartum DoulasBirthworker TIP: Developing your contractD eveloping your contract can be challenging! Your contract of services offered is not just a protection for you, it is a protection for your clients. Two parties sign a contract, you and your cli...
Why I trained to become a doula
Birth Doulas, Birth Worker TruthsWhy I trained to become a doula Watch Zuri Davidson share her journey to becoming a doula with Birth Day Presence and boober founder Jada Shapiro. Zuri & Jada talk birth doula training, virtual trainings, the importance of self-reflectio...
The top 5 reasons to become a postpartum doula
Postpartum DoulasThere are many reasons to become a postpartum doula, whether or not you are already working in the birth world. If you are a birth doula, you are likely familiar with the satisfaction that comes with the role you hold in the lives of...
Packing your doula bag
Birth DoulasHow you choose to show up in your role as a doula is completely up to you, which makes the support we provide as birth workers wonderfully diverse. The fact that there are so many amazing and different doulas is great for families...
Comforting Touch for Self-Care: 3 Tips for Doulas and other Birth Pros
Birth DoulasLactation counselors are critical people in the mission to nurture, support and protect families on their infant feeding journeys. Systemic and medical racism permeate the US medical system, which doesn’t always value keeping babies...
Why become a Certified Lactation Counselor and what is the CLSC (Certified Lactation Support Counselor) certification?
Lactation Professionals, Postpartum DoulasLactation counselors are critical people in the mission to nurture, support and protect families on their infant feeding journeys. Systemic and medical racism permeate the US medical system, which doesn’t always value keeping babies...
Closing the gap
Birth Community NewsWith birthing centers closing and many midwives being denied access to malpractice insurance, fewer options are available for physiological birth. There is hope that midwife led birthing centers may be opened in the future, but rules...
Another birth center plans to close in NYC and expectant parents might lose one of the last few options for low-intervention care during childbirth
Birth Community NewsThis past weekend, my social media blew up with a notice from a midwife that NYC’s Mt. Sinai West Birthing Center is slated to close at the end of the year. This is devastating to the NYC community because people in labor deserve safe...
6 reasons why you should take a Doula Training!
Birth DoulasDoula trainings are becoming increasingly popular and not all of the women taking them plan to become doulas. Doulas as modern professionals are bringing back the concept of continuous support during labor that women always had in the past....
My calling to birth work came to me after a very dark time…
Birth Worker TruthsHello! My name is Catalina and I have just completed my first DONA Doula Training Workshop in NYC with Debra Pascali-Bonaro and am on my way to become a DONA International Certified Birth Doula!...