Upon us is another holiday weekend, although many people don’t take this seriously, the world around us is certainly different. Stores are closed, offices are closed, banks are closed, to name a few places. When it’s baby time, it’s baby time. Baby chooses the date to arrive and whether or not the world around is on holiday, baby does not
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Celebrating World Doula Week
A doula is a personal support worker. Most of us are trained, spend thousands of hours into maintaining our focus to support others, and we work unconditionally to assist our birthing family. Just like a support worker who is welcomed into someones home to take care of the elderly, we are invited into our clients lives because they seek
Rebozos: A doula’s magical relaxation tool
Rebozos is a long Mexican woven scarf and a baby wearing tool. A rebozo has some amazing uses, I want to share how awesome they are as a labour helper and even better how they can reduce the time of labour for many birthing women. Let’s talk about this one technique we call the belly sifting. This is a technique
Doulas are labour and birth coaches
After being a couple for some time, couples decide one day that they are ready to take the leap into Parenthood. For many that’s all it takes, and voila, we are having a baby! Thus the journey and the excitement of it all begins. At first, it is just Mom’s little secret as to not raise expectations until a confirmation