Aliza Juliette Bancoff

At the International Doula Institute, we are committed to helping students be fully prepared to offer holistic support to their clients as soon as they...

As doulas, our role is to provide holistic family support. This means that as professionals, we aren’t simply holding people’s newborns during recovery. This means...

As a doula, you are a non-medical support for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum families. While you are not a clinical provider, it is important you...

As a doula, you can provide more than simply labor support. Many clients will see you as an expert of everything related to pregnancy, birth,...

As a doula, you may have heard the saying, “work yourself out of a job,” in terms of how to truly help parents. The underlying...

As doulas, we often help our clients prepare and plan for their birth experience. New parents spend time taking birth classes, researching birth positioning, and...

As doulas, parents hire us in hopes we can help them have a positive and supported birth experience. One thing we learn as doulas is...

There are many myths about what doula support really looks like. It isn’t uncommon for people, even new doulas, to assume support is limited to...

We know birth is important. We know it is a big day. However, do we truly know why birth matters? We have all likely heard...

Whether your client plans to have an unmedicated or medicated birth, their environment can impact how labor progresses. Softening the environment for a more natural...