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Frida’s Home Birth

8th December 2022 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

This is a guest post by my lovely friend Izzy. I was honoured and grateful to be one of her doulas, alongside my wonderful friend Becky Talbot. This is long for a blog post, but if you are a doula, midwife or parent preparing for birth, I urge you to read it all. Izzy leaves nothing out, so her Continue Reading

Weaponising the Ockenden Report

7th April 2022 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

baby shoes in wheat field

  This Guest Post is an edited version of an article which appeared on www.thearticle.com on 28 March, with the title The Ockenden Report: are we making natural birth a scapegoat? reproduced by permission of the editor. The author Sarah Johnson is a doula and birth educator and has Continue Reading

The Hoaxer of Covid: The Strange Case of Munchausens By Internet

26th April 2020 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Munchausen by Internet in the Doula Community Dr Kathryn Newns, Clinical Psychologist Introduction There is an individual described who contacts a Doula – by text or telephone - saying that they are in labour and are alone. The doula then supports this person through labour. The baby is born, Continue Reading

Natural homebirth – not just for hippies! Guest post by Paula Cleary

23rd March 2020 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Today's post is a guest piece by my lovely friend Paula Cleary, doula and childbirth educator in Norfolk. This article went rather viral a while ago (funny how that is such a loaded word these days) but has been homeless for a while. Paula would like it to live here for a bit and for that, I am very Continue Reading

Being Loved in Abobo: What Africa has to Teach us About Supporting Mothers

4th February 2020 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

I am honoured to host this article by my friend and colleague Becky Young. Becky is a doula and breastfeeding counsellor who recently travelled to the Ivory Coast. Read on for her reflections on parenting in this wonderful country and how it throws our way of life in Europe into stark relief.  Continue Reading

Saying Thank You To Midwives: Do you not believe me, or do you not want to?

15th November 2019 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

doula with a midwife

  Today's post is a guest submission written by Ruth Pay, birth and postnatal doula in Kent and South London. Thank you so much for your words, Ruth - your thoughts on gratitude and how it is accepted are so interesting and I'm sure many of us will be able to identify with Continue Reading

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