

Aliza Juliette Bancoff
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Five Unique Ways Doulas Can Earn Money
As a doula, you can create a sustainable career simply supporting new families in traditional birth and postpartum doula work. However, there are also many...

When Should I Hire a Doula?
The moment one sees a positive pregnancy test, many thoughts come flooding in. Certainly, these will vary from person to person, but many quickly jump...

How To Be A Professional Doula
As a certified doula, you get to turn your passion for birth into an amazing career. When something is your passion, it’s easy to focus...

Birth Location Options – Hospital, Home Birth, and Freestanding Birth Centers
As a doula, it is important you be familiar with a variety of birth location options in your area. You are likely to get clients...

6 Ways to Help Your Client Prepare For Birth
As a doula, helping your client prepare for birth goes beyond basic prenatal education. Some refer to doulas a “Sherpas” or guides for birth as...

How to Support a Client After a Difficult Birth
As doulas, we inevitably have clients who experience difficult births. Whether they have one before becoming our client, or the birth we support is difficult,...

Birth Interventions Can Impact Children’s Health – Study Finds
As doulas, we are aware of the benefits of normal physiological labor when it is possible. Occasionally, birth does not unfold in a safe manner...

How Birth Can Impact Parenting
As a doula, you have an important role in supporting growing families. Birth is an important experience with lifelong impact. Understanding how birth can impact...

What Are Signs of Cervical Dilation?
As a doula, you will be asked about signs of cervical dilation. Your clients will want to know when to contact you, when to call...

Gestational Diabetes – What Doulas Need to Know
As a doula, you will be asked many questions. You cannot give medical advice, diagnose, or treat anything. However, you can provide general information to...