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The One Question You Should Never Ask a Doula

February 18, 2019 By Deena 2 Comments

Before hiring a doula, clients interview them. This is a time to get to know the doula, learn about the compliment of services offered and see if the doula is a good fit for the client. However, it happens fairly often that a client will as the one question they shouldn’t.

Filed Under: Doulas, Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Childbirth, Communication, Decision making, Doula, Expectations, Ideal Birth, Motherhood, Mothers

What do dads do during labor, anyway?

October 18, 2018 By Deena Leave a Comment

Dads /Partners often come into my childbirth classes or doula consultations with a feeling of unease when I ask them, “What do you want your role to be during birth?”. Beyond “support her”, they often don’t have a clear picture of what options they have, what she might need (or not need), how to express […]

Filed Under: Featured Home Page, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, Childbirth, Childbirth Education Classes, Dad, Doula, Expectations, Fathers, Labor, Lamaze

The Lamaze Method Failed Me

October 18, 2017 By Deena Leave a Comment

Recently, I met a mom in a bar with her baby. Yep. A baby-in-a-bar. Eh, why not? Anyway, she and I got to talking and I told her what I did for a living. She then said something that made me take pause. She said that she’d taken the hospital’s Lamaze class, but “it didn’t work […]

Filed Under: Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, Childbirth, Childbirth Education Classes, Communication, Decision making, Epidural, Expectations, Ideal Birth, Labor, Lamaze, Pregnancy

Birth is Beautiful, Poop is Progress, Early Labor – video

December 29, 2015 By Deena 2 Comments

My next video in the Birth is Beautiful series is about poop. Yeah, I know… but when we don’t talk about the yucky stuff it’s that much worse. This is part one of three. Who knew there was so much to talk about regarding poop and childbirth? Remember that Birth is Beautiful and Poop is […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, Birth is Beautiful, Childbirth, Childbirth Education Classes, Early Labor, Expectations, Labor, Lamaze, Pregnancy, Videos

Birth is Beautiful, Your Mucus Plug – video

December 7, 2015 By Deena Leave a Comment

I’ve been meaning to get started on this new video series, Birth is Beautiful, for quite some time. This is the series where I discuss all of the gross, yucky and otherwise unmentionable things about childbirth. Today’s topic is, Your Mucus Plug. Happy viewing! Oh, and if you’d like to have your question answered via […]

Filed Under: Into the Light, Main Blog Page Tagged With: Birth, Birth is Beautiful, Childbirth, Childbirth Education Classes, Early Labor, Expectations, Labor, Mucus Plug, Videos

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