: ' doula'

Birth Story – Sam from the UK

Another amazing birth story, this time from our Doula friend Sam from Blooming Miracle Doula Services. [...]

Birth Story – Jennifer from the USA

I'm thrilled to share more birth stories, starting with this beautiful story from Jennifer in the USA about the birth of her little boy Braeden! [...]

Guest Post: A Letter Regarding Birth and Breastfeeding

The following is an email sent to Professor Elizabeth Armstrong of Princeton University after she wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times on the use of formula in hospitals. I believe they both [...]

Ask EP: Stillbirth Prevention

Q: I've been asked by a good friend to dig out as much in the way of links and studies relating to how the use of doulas and other holistic approaches to pregnancy and birth could [...]

Re:Birth Volume 6

“We’re not as skilled in vaginal deliveries as before, and patients won’t put up with damage.” - One doctor on why c-section rates were rising in 1985 [...]

Birth Story: Elle from Omaha

Warning: You may be jealous of this birth story! [...]

My Birth Story

The story of the birth of my daughter and the lessons I was able to take home from the entire experience. [...]

Re:Birth Volume 3

The article that stood out was the summary of research on homebirth, one of the first articles of the paper, but I’ve already written on that and sadly the articles seem a little too similar to [...]

Re:Birth Volume 2

In this second issue of Re:Birth, there are articles on the Ultrasound (which was quite new at the time), mothering the mother, VBACs (yes, they were talking about them 20 years ago) and C-sections, support during [...]