TRAIN: If someone trains you to do something, they teach you the skills that you need in order to do it. If you train to do something, you learn the skills that you need in order to do it. -Collins Dictionary To prepare someone or be prepared for a job, activity or sport by learning
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Doula the Soccer Player
Photo Credit: RendonPhoto My doula the volleyball player has turned into doula the soccer player all in the same season. Last year the high school soccer coach attended one of my daughter’s volleyball games. The next day he stopped her in the hallway at school and asked her to come be his goalie. He wanted
Birthing In The Zone
6 out of my 8 Doula clients in 2016, birthed their babies nothing but natural. Each birthing mom found her birth zone to achieve her desired natural birth. As her Doula, I helped her get into her birth zone and helped her maintain it to bring her baby to her arms. Watching her find her
Your Pelvis Is A Jigsaw Puzzle During Birth
Love when my Doula clients inspire me to write a blog to educate other mommas! I was called in at the wee hours of the night to her home birth. Her birthing environment was very peacefully and quiet. She was so comfortable in the comfort of her own home and labored wherever she desired.
Birthing With Midwives
Unaware of my birth options, I used an OB to birth both my babies in a hospital. Being a certified birth Doula for the last 3 years; I am more educated about all the different birth options in Texas. If I only knew then what I know now, I would have chosen different birth options for
Birthing At Home
Watching a woman have a baby on TV these days can give false ideas about what birth actually can be. How does TV portray birth? Water breaks, woman starts screaming, frantically she is taken to the hospital, commercial break and then she’s holding her baby. So far NONE of my Doula clients have had a
DONA Certification
I am now a Certified DONA (Doulas of North America) Birth Doula!!!!! It has truly been one of the best experiences of my life. I did my Doula training back in September of 2013 with an amazing instructor and a wonderful Doulas, whom became my friends and Doula sisters. We did an intense 4 days