Today I was meeting with clients and they said that it seems like they keep finding connections to me - meeting people who have taken a class with me or have had me attend their birth. How wonderful - I love being so connected to the wide circle that is my life.
In days gone by, I imagine that's what the town midwife or doctor felt like...being trusted to be a part of such peak rites of passage with members of my community. I was thinking about that yesterday as I set out for a day of one prenatal and two postpartum visits...being able to take time to explore with people the special place of having just given birth or being about to...holding a baby that is hours or days old.
I'm very lucky and I know it!
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- DoulaMomma
- Wife, mother to three boys, former attorney and for the last eleven years, birth doula, childbirth educator, birth photographer, belly cast maker, placenta printer, birth advocate and former writer for The MotherHood Magazine. Oh, and blogger.
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I agree--you are lucky! I have thought of becoming a doula and even looked up what the training is once. It seemed a little daunting to me at the time. But, I had a baby and a toddler then. Times are different now.
How were you trained? How did you get into the profession?
How wonderful to have a career where you help people welcome their babies into the world. Amazing.
How dis I train?
I went to law school! Ha!
I was lucky - my husband was supportive of me quitting law stuff and doing what really interested me - birth. I fell in love with all things pregnancy/birth related during & after my first pregnancy. Friends would ask me for information or to sit with them in labor...and so when I decided, it fell into place really easily. I found a DONA training (and lucked out to have found the most amazing, respected teacher who became a mentor and is now a friend and colleague), and the births came...there was a lot more to it, of course. Books to read, papers to write, births to attend, evaluations, getting certified in childbirth education...but if you feel called, Laura, I say do it...you can do it on your own time-table and it can be completely over-taking or not...you set the boundaries!
It is the connections with all the different people in life that I find most rewarding. How amazing to have a profession that allows you to do that!
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