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Labor & Birth

This category is an incredible resource for learning about pregnancy, labor and childbirth. You will also find great articles about becoming a childbirth educator and teaching childbirth education classes. To learn more about becoming a labor doula or childbirth educator contact ProDoula today!

5 Reasons to Teach Childbirth Classes

#1 – Teaching Childbirth Classes offers an easily scheduled stream of revenue! If you work full time, or you’re a …

Group Childbirth Classes Are Dead

The world wide web has taken over CBE, and families, particularly millennial families, have no time or use for group …

Become a Childbirth Educator

The ProDoula Childbirth Education Certification allows you to become a childbirth educator while focusing on options, connection, and opportunity. Birth …

What is a Doula Prenatal Visit?

Don’t let the doula prenatal visit overwhelm you! You’ve taken your doula training and you’ve found your first client! Excitement …

Happy Father’s Day! This is All Normal

In light of the pandemic, the world is an especially scary place. For many expectant families, how, where, and with …

Doula Support and COVID-19

Providing doula support during the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing some new challenges for birthing families and in turn, the doulas …

Well Informed Pregnancy Caused Anxiety and Panic

We all know that well informed pregnancy can lead to great decision making and an empowered birth. After all, the …

Umbilical Cord Milking – Brain Bleeds

A study out of the Sharp Mary Burch Hospital for Women and Newborns in San Deigo points to umbilical cord …

Preeclampsia & Long Term Heart Health

As doulas, we have learned that preeclampsia can be a very serious condition that can impact our clients pregnancies. One …

Doulas, Rockstars, and Back Stage Passes

Time and time again, doulas say, “My client was an absolute ROCKSTAR during their birth!” and the rest of us …

When Should You CALL Your Doula?

You’re having a baby and you’ve hired a doula. Good for you! You likely hired that doula to mitigate as …

The Doula Payment Plan

By now we are all well aware that hiring a doula is an expense that can be difficult to fit …

Ambulate in Labor? What the Heck is That?

If you spend a lot of time reading birth related blogs and facebook posts, you might occasionally come across a …

Amniotic Sac? Bag of Waters? It’s Plural?

The human body is a fascinating thing. Not only do we have the capacity to grow another human being, we …

Episiotomy: CUT IT OUT!

The E word can make a grown woman cross her legs and cringe in revulsion. Pregnant women are often terrified …

What’s in Your Doula Bag – Let’s Break it Down

The “What” of Your Doula Bag: This mysterious, ever present item/idea/tool carrier, called your doula bag, that we have long …

Doulas destigmatize “Eyes and Thighs”

Eyes and Thighs and Parent’s OH MYS! When I was a new doula, I brought a lot of preconceived notions …

Red Raspberry Leaf Tea; An Herbal Supplement for Labor

In the days before I was a professional doula, I was a retail manager at a health food co-op. I …

Doula Support: What No One is Able To Teach You

Most of the time, doula support descriptions involve visions of loud or conspicuous actions: Significant position changes Noticeable actions like …

Water Birth: What’s in the Water?!

Moan and Tone.  You know the sounds…the ones that tell you it’s a good time to get your client in …

The Peanut Ball: A New Snack or A Tool for Birth?

Peanut ball? You’re a doula so there’s a good chance you are familiar with what a birth ball is. You …

Vernix: I said hold the cheese!

This conversation may make things between you and your morning bagel awkward and I’m sorry for that, but there’s no …

VBAC & TOLAC, Same or Different?

Ahh… The ever confusing acronyms associated with birth… VBAC and TOLAC, they’re sisters but not twins. …

I Teach Childbirth Education – I’m a Birth Expert!

When I meet aspiring doulas I’m asked how to get into this work, and my answer is simple… Teach Childbirth …

Labour Denial

Labour Denial: The act of being in labour yet not actually believing you are. The following is an example….

Perineal Repair – Numb or Not?

The baby came out through the vagina, the placenta passed through shortly after, and now there may be a need …

Men, Grateful Jolly Giants?

I am, through and through, a woman’s woman, in the same way that the Brawny paper towel guy is a …

Gentle Cesarean Section – Largely a PR Campaign

In 2017 Good Morning America did a segment on Gentle C-sections. They introduced their audience to more options for families …

A Hospital Bed – The Best Place for Birth

The hospital bed is the most under-used piece of equipment in a labor room. Check out this video to see …

Who Hires a Male Doula?

While the word doula is on its way to becoming commonplace, it’s not quite there yet, and people who do …

What Kind of Doula are You?

What is a doula? A doula is a trained person without an emotional attachment to the family, offering supportive services …

PDCBE – The Fastest Growing ProDoula Program

A few weeks before the idea of the PDCBE Program was born I had a conversation with Randy Patterson and …

Why We Call Our Clients “Rock Stars”

Let’s start with what we don’t mean! We don’t mean that while you were birthing your baby, you wore black …