A Guide To Hiring the Right Doula
Congratulations on your pregnancy! Now that you have found out you are pregnant you must be incredibly excited, but perhaps a little apprehensive, and overwhelmed …
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Book Review – Newborn Mothers by Julia Jones
Book Review of Julia Jones Newborn Mothers, when a baby is born so is a mother written by Cara Green. “Newborn Mother – A recently …
A Guide to Packing for a Positive Hospital Birth or Transfer
Whether you’re planning a hospital birth, planned caesarean, birth centre, home birth or free birth, it can be helpful to plan ahead and pack a …
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Partners and doulas make the best birth team
Why you the birth partner, needs to have me, the doula, on your birth team. You are happy to go with the flow, you think …
Birth Partners – Supporting Better Birth Outcomes
2023 – What a wonderful time to be a birth partner. Birth partners can now play an active role in the birth space, a massive …
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Doulas, homebirth and freebirth – is it illegal?
Hi, my name is Vicki Hobbs from Back to Basics Birthing and my business has been operating since 2004, so I consider myself a fairly …
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Active Birth – The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
This is a book review for Active Birth – The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally by author Janet Balaskas. This book review was written …
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How can I prepare for my labour and birth?
So, you have just found out that you’re pregnant, congratulations on the amazing news, I’m sure you have millions of questions you would like answered. Below, …
Have you got skin (to skin) in the game?
Skin to skin is when your naked little, fresh-out-of-the-oven bub lays on a bare chest. In an ideal world, baby is on mum’s chest, however, …
Book Review – The Birth Space
The Birth Space – A Doula’s Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond written by Gabrielle Nancarrow. Book Review by doula India Simpson. “If there is …