Hello, Readers!  I realize it has been some time since we've posted to the blog.  We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are...

This evening, December 11, 2011, Robin Lim of the Bumi Sehat Foundation was announced as CNN's 2011 Hero of the Year .  Midwifery trul...

In 2008, Michelle took a trip to Edmonton, where she had lived for three years and had given birth to both of her children.  She had been a ...

Today's post is from guest blogger Andrea Hoffman.  Thank you, Andrea, for sharing your family's story.  I have been asked to shar...

November is Prematurity Awareness Month and November 17, 2011 is World Prematurity Day.  As doulas, we work with families to support normal ...

I recently had the privilege of reading The Red Tent by Anita Diamant.  It is a beautiful novel built upon a Biblical story of Dinah , the o...

Three years ago, when I began this doula practice with several other excited and newly trained birth doulas, I have to admit, I was very nai...