We were featured in SheerLuxe recently talking all things doula, go and read it. But here's our version. When most people hear the word "doula" for the first time, they nod politely and Google it later. Or they picture someone burning sage. Either way, they don't really know ....but its just because nobody talks about this enough. So let's fix that. The word comes from the Greek for woman caregiver. In practice, a doula is a trained birth companion, non-medical, non-clinical,
A year ago I gave birth to my baby George. Little did I know 5 days prior when my waters ruptured that I’d be faced with many challenges including obstruction of labour leading to this POWERFUL moment of me pulling my boy out of my own belly in theatre. I was ready for anything Leading up to this, I had envisaged a beautiful vaginal birth, I had gotten excited about the thought of feeling those incredible sensations as the uterus contracts to dilate the cervix. I had dreamt a