Doula

I do have a goal in 10 years.

I want... know who is your doula to be as common as who was your doctor who was your midwife so like i talked about earlier in your podcast my favorite time kind of like my jam is getting on in podcasting talking about birth injury prevention you know just having a safer childbirth having you know living a you know and whatnot But anyway, as part of my birth injury prevention, my number one recommendation to new families especially is to hire a doula during childbirth.

Doulas are not in birth injury cases.

And that's because doulas do help families bring their baby safely into this world.

And more recently, I'm going to have to be careful saying that because I did find a doula in a birth injury case.

Dave was setting up the birth pool that I had rented.

Shout out to the doula tree in Norfolk County who rented me a birth pool.

I had not rented one with Freddie.

So this is my first time attempting a birth pool.

Hello and welcome back to the Dying to Ask podcast.

People ask me all the time, what does a death doula actually do? Today, instead of listing out a bunch of things, I'm gonna have you pull up a chair and find out because I'm sitting down with my doula buddy, Nicole Hoover.

You might know her as Death Doula Nicole.

She's in Ohio, I'm here in California.

We do the same work, but in different places, and today we're talking shop.

It's a real look behind the scenes, because doula work is about finding a $13 pill bottle that gives a family peace of mind, and sometimes it's sitting with a grieving family for an afternoon and writing their dad's obituary.

Sometimes it's holding a hand at the bedside, and sometimes it's staying in the home after the last breath, so no one has to rush.

Nicole and I talk about why we do this work, we talk about how we take care of ourselves while we do it, and we talk about what it means to show up for families when it matters most.

Husband, hold one leg.

Dula, hold the other leg.

She gets the lidocaine out.

She's like, I've never done an episiotomy before.

definitely.

Doulas are definitely in that bridging gap.

I mean, also doula is not a new concept.

If you look at the Asian countries like China and India, like there's always... an experienced mother an experienced sister an experienced cousin supporting before and always postpartum you know they have this very strict 40 days and it's like in the western culture of why is this suddenly women have always been supporting women and know during birth so

So it's, again, you can just see the very... different roles that

we're playing here.

So, yeah, I mean, in that case, like how people can actually find Doulas here in Berlin, in Germany also, any paths that you can suggest?

Yeah, there's like a Facebook group called Berlin Doulas that you can find.

What was your trailer you sent me?

For that documentary called Doula.

Yes.

So I watched the first episode.

Okay.

Okay, spoilers, spoilers for anybody who's gonna watch this TV series.

Three parts, it's called Doula.

It's on CBC, which is, like, a Canadian channel, I think.

And I want to use myself as an example.

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Welcome back to the Six Figure Doula Podcast.

We're continuing the series, How and Why Mothers Buy.