Yearly Archives: 2012

New doulas always seem so curious about what to put in their doula bag. As a new doula I too looked for advice on what to bring along to help me support families in labor. As my skills have developed and my experience has grown, the contents of my bag […]

My Doula Bag Revealed

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 Every labor is different. While there is no way to know in advance if yours will be easy or more difficult, or if you will require interventions or not; there are many things you can do to increase your chances of a simple, uncomplicated, “easy” labor. Often when labors are […]

Three Steps To An Easier Labor

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When you tell people your baby is due in the summer you get a lot of comments about how miserable you will be. Dragging a belly full of baby around in the summer heat while everyone else is lithely enjoying sports and activities in tiny outfits with lots of brown […]

NH Seacoast Summer Pregnancy Bucket List

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Part of being an effective doula is exploring the fears of your clients so that they can move forward through labor, birth and parenting with confidence, and the freedom to experience the joys unhindered by unfounded or unaddressed fears. During our prenatal meetings we always discuss each parent’s fears around […]

Keeping fear in perspective

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I run across a lot of articles talking about using TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) for labor, but had never seen or heard of it being used in my area.  Many of the people who wrote about their experience with TENS were in the UK, where it seems to be […]

TENS for Labor

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