Aliza Juliette Bancoff
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Why Birth Doulas Should Consider Becoming Childbirth Educators
Doulas offer invaluable experience, and childbirth educators add more evidence-based knowledge. Birth doulas are uniquely positioned to support families throughout pregnancy and labor. Our strength...
Building Confidence in Birth Education: What Childbirth Educators Need to Know
As childbirth educators and doulas, we hope to help parents have positive birth experiences. While we’ve often seen this anecdotally, we now have studies backing...
A Lack of Confidence About Birth Is Associated With Birth Trauma
As a doula, one of the most important things we do is help parents prepare for birth. A new study found a lack of confidence...
How Birth Doulas Help Experienced Moms
When people think about hiring a birth doula, they often imagine a first-time parent looking for extra education and support. However, doulas aren’t just for...
Ohio Senate Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Expand Medicaid Doula Access
The awareness of how doulas improve birth outcomes continues to grow. This fall, the Ohio Senate announced a bipartisan effort to expand access to doula...
Unassisted Birth and Doulas
Unassisted birth and doulas is not without risk to all involved. Unassisted birth, sometimes referred to as freebirth or unattended birth, refers to a planned...
How to Have a Positive Birth in the Hospital – Softening the Hospital Environment
In the US, around 98% of births occur in the hospital. While there’s been an increase of parents hoping for less interventions, most births still...
Working as a Team – How Doulas Can Best Serve Families
As a doula, it is important your clients feel well supported and comfortable during birth. One of the best ways to facilitate that is to...
The Best Positions for Labor and Birth: A Guide for Doulas
As a doula, one of your most important roles is helping the families you serve find comfort, progress, and empowerment during labor. One powerful way...
Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Birth Outcomes Every Doula Should Know
As doulas, it is important we help empower our families to have positive birth experiences whenever possible. Using evidence-based strategies to improve birth outcomes is...