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20 Affirmations for Your Pregnancy Journey
Affirmations can be used in any part of your life. Maybe you need a reminder that you’re doing a good job at work. That a difficult period in your life is going to pass. Or that you’re ready to embrace the pregnancy journey ahead.
10 Tips for Birth from a Doula
Every birth journey is unique and will have it’s own specific path. However, as doulas we’ve seen a lot of births and have come across many helpful tips for clients. Today we are sharing 10 tips for your birth!
10 Tips for Pregnancy from a Doula
In the coming weeks we’ll be sharing 10 tips at a time to help you on your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. This will include everything from getting enough sleep, to staying hydrated, writing out birth preferences, taking prenatal classes, and so much more!
The Accidental Doula – My Journey into Birthwork
I’m often asked by clients and colleagues “how did you end up working as a doula?” I’ve got a bit of a winding road that led me into this line of work. I thought it might be helpful to share with our community here at Discover Birth.
Spreading #DoulaLove This Holiday Season
We have been seeing so much #DoulaLove online the past few months. It’s always heartwarming to see people taking to social media to talk about their experience with a birth or postpartum doula.
Top 10 Favourite Doula Tools
As doulas we are always looking to add tools to our doula bag. Clients will often learn in different ways, so having a variety of comfort measures and educational tools can help us connect with you. In today’s blog we are looking at the top 10 items your doula will carry.
Top 5 Reasons to Hire a Postpartum Doula
Anyone who has ever breastfed knows it can be a tricky thing to get the hang of. Each baby is different, and it may take time to find the right set-up for you and your little one. Postpartum doulas have taken a breastfeeding course as part of their training and can offer many suggestions and real-world solutions to any roadblocks you might be experiencing with breastfeeding.
Top 5 Reasons to Hire a Birth Doula
When you found out you were pregnant, you likely began to google all things ‘pregnancy’ and speak with friends about this great roller coaster..ahem…adventure. The topic of hiring a doula likely came up a few times. We know that the decision to hire a doula is a BIG one for families.
Epidural Shortage
You may have heard on the news of the possible epidural shortage that’s happening across the globe. What’s really happening is a shortage of epidural tubes (specifically it’s the ink that prints onto the tube that is the shortage).