Doula’s Trust Birth – The role of the doula in the Birth and Postpartum space

Domino Kirke-Badgley

Key Takeaways:

  • Doulas provide emotional and practical support for parents.
  • Parents often feel isolated and unsupported due to the loss of community.
  • Cultural conditioning pressures parents to make quick decisions instead of slowing down.
  • Societal expectations around sleep, feeding, and postpartum recovery create stress.
  • Parents carry unresolved wounds and expectations from their own upbringing.
  • Rewriting parenting narratives based on personal intuition is essential.
  • Postpartum lasts much longer than six weeks and infancy extends from 0-3 years.
  • Support groups provide connection and help process emotions.
  • Therapy can be beneficial for exploring personal narratives and parenting identity.
  • Journaling helps release emotions and process experiences.
  • Lying flat for 20 minutes daily helps regulate the nervous system.

I became a birth worker after my first son was born in 2009. His birth was a near-death experience for me, and like so many, I felt abandoned by my care team. When my son was a year old, I set out to become the support person I didn’t have at my own birth.

A year after my DONA training in 2011, I co-founded of Carriage House Birth in 2011.

I’ve supported births at home, birth centers, C births, and VBAC’S. I’ve worked primarily in the NYC and surrounding areas my whole career. Since the birth of my second child, I have decided to shift my focus to supporting care givers.

After becoming seriously burned out with the on-call lifestyle and battling an autoimmune disease as a result, I can’t think of a better way to spend my time.

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