5 Simple Ways to Support Queer and Trans Clients as a Doula
Whether you’re cisgender or transgender, straight or queer, or any practicing birth worker, you won’t automatically know how to care for and support LGBTQIA2S+ birthing and parenting folks. Creating a queer and trans friendly, inclusive, and affirming environment is not a one-and-done process; it is ongoing learning process as the queer community is ever expanding and shifting.
8 Marketing Tools for Your Doula Business
When you’re starting out in the birth and doula world you probably aren’t going to have a massive marketing budget, and that’s ok! Today we’re sharing some of our favourite marketing tools that are accessible to a growing doula businesses.
Frequently Asked Questions about Doula Training
We took some of the most common questions we get asked from students and listed them below. Everything from “do I need to have kids to be a doula?” to “am I certified after training?”
Life of a Doula – Winter Comic Strips
Last year we put out a summary of all our comics to date, since then we’ve had over a dozen new entries! Today we are sharing all of our winter comics.
10 Ways to Grow Your Doula Business
Are you trying to grow your doula business? Whether you’re just starting out, or a doula with over 10 years experience, we’re all looking for unique ways to connect with more clients and bring doula work to those that need it.
Day 11: 8 Thoughts on the Future of the Doula Profession
On the 11th day of doula school my trainer gave to me…. Thoughts on the Future of the Doula Profession I follow a lot of Facebook doula groups and one of the comments I see regularly is something to the effect of ‘whether it’s possible…
Day 10: Podcasts for doulas
On the 10th Day of Doula School my Trainer Gave to Me…. Some podcasts to listen to A couple of years ago one of my friends kept talking about podcasts and I admittedly hadn’t gotten into them yet. When she pushed me to listen to…
Day 9: Doula Resources
On the 9th Day of Doula School my Trainer Gave to Me… Some super cool Doula Resources During your doula training you SURELY went over a bunch of resources, but there is always SO much info throughout the training that you may have missed writing…
Day 7: Playing nice – working as a team
On the Seventh Day of Doula School my Trainer Gave to ME…. Thoughts on playing nice in the sandbox I’ll admit when I first became a childbirth educator (and later a doula), I did so because of my own disempowering birth experience (and a subsequent…