News & resource centre for doulas in the UK
Waiter, waiter, I have a fly in my soup! Shhhh, quiet, or everyone else will want one! It can seem just this bizarre as we navigate our way through the maternity journey. With scant resources and staff stretched so thin the system is at breaking point, logic flies out of the window and reason drowns … Read more
I started my life as a doula in 2012, and in 2020 I became a doula preparation course facilitator. I undertook both of those trainings with the wonderful Developing Doulas. Every time I start to train a new cohort of enthusiastic and passionate new doulas I feel truly honoured to have these fantastic people under … Read more
Specialist course for people from the LGBTQIA community who wish to be doulas Hey there wonderful doulas in the making! My name is Aimee and I am one of the DD course facilitators. Are you an aspiring doula who identifies as part of the LGBTQI family? We are offering a really exciting opportunity to train … Read more
Aimee offers a London doula course. DD are offering an in-person course in April 2021 in North London, and I get the honour of being your guide for this transformative and nurturing 5 days. So you are thinking about becoming a birth or post-natal doula and you live or intend to work in London, this … Read more
When my clients go to see an obstetrician they are often expecting a figurative offer of a cuppa and a biccie. A good host proffers the whole selection box, because to assume your guest likes only digestives is a bit presumptuous. But it rarely goes that way. What they more often get is no intelligent … Read more
I hadn’t been a doula very long when I fell pregnant with my third baby. This pregnancy was to be my first since leaving the world of teaching and becoming a fully immersed birth keeper. I knew it was going to be a different experience. What I hadn’t fully appreciated was the effect that witnessing … Read more
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