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Careful Now! The Black Pregnant Body is NOT Defective Recent press has spotlighted the tragedy of more Black women and babies dying than Whites in the United States. It has amplified the voices of Black women and allowed more people to hear their stor…

How the U.S. Women’s Movements Influence The Lack of Doula Research, Part IV of IV The last major influence on why there isn’t pressure for more birth doula support research is that it doesn’t fit neatly into a feminist or women centered agenda in the United States. During the …

Doula Research Part III – Barriers To Approvals, Funding And Publishing Access Most people don’t know much about the research process or how difficult and time consuming it can be to publish in a peer reviewed journal. This essay exposes the barriers that are unique to publishing doula research examining obstetrical or neonatal outcomes. Part II covered the medical politics?...

Why The Doula Research We Need Doesn’t Exist: Part II – Medical Politics and Practices As a young woman, I naively thought that the evidence was so overwhelming that we’d steadily see doula research in major medical journals. Nursing and medical students working on research degrees would pair with their professors and community members to answer these pressing questions. The fact…

Why Don’t We Have The Doula Research We Need? Part I of III The Cochrane Collaboration updated their doula research review this year. They added four, only FOUR new studies – and none of them advanced our research conclusions in any significant way. Birth doulas have the potential to be the most influential factor in lowering negative birth outcomes and…

Who Are You And Why Should I Listen To What You Have To Say? Demands for transparency in science and accountability for potential bias in researchers are relevant to doulas because so much of what we do is research driven. People want to know who is generating knowledge and how their backgrounds inform their findings. Since I’m about to embark on some rather…

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There’s 67 Different Doula Training Organizations! Uh oh! Or maybe not? Recently, Kim James of DoulaMatch.net reported that birth and postpartum doulas have listed 67 different training organizations in their online profiles. Why are there so many? What are the implications for our profession? If you think about it, there are few ways for someone to utilize the…

It’s Your Turn to Make Doula History Lately I’ve thought a lot about what’s left after someone is gone – and who tells their story. It has made me really think about who is going to write the story of our movement. Traditionally history is written by people after events have happened, after the world has already changed. It’s written…