Cesareans and Doulas just like Toast and Tea!

I have this routine I love, when its getting late and all the kids are tucked into bed and I’m starting to feel a little sleepy myself, It always happens, I want toast and tea. (my favourite is local geniuses, zeallybay gluten free sour dough with a rooibos chai latte) It just makes me feel happy on the inside. […]

The Business of Birth

How do you sell a better birth??  How do you sell yourself as a Doula?? These two questions have had my head in a spin for a little while now.  I mean, Birth is free right?? Women birth all day everyday all over the world so why would somebody pay another women to show up […]

Mothering Myself

As a Doula, it is both necessary and honourable to ‘mother the mother’. What does this even mean? you might ask, well, it means that while a woman is super-heroing like a boss, labouring and delivering her latest addition, I look after her, I nurture her, I accept her without condition, I support her, I […]

Becoming a Doula – almost doesn’t count …

So! I just did my first ever blog and then very accidentally and annoyingly lost it!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo. So after some tears and a cuddle I am back for round two. I mean honestly … I don’t even know if this is even going to work, if this is even going to make it out into cyber […]