Q: Do you attend home births? A: Yes, doulas can attend home births. They provide emotional and physical support for the birthing person and their family, help them understand their options during labor and delivery, and provide reassurance and encouragement. We find that this question comes up a lot, from both home and hospital birth
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Q: Do you support hospital births? A: Yes, doulas can attend hospital births. They provide emotional and physical support for the birthing person and their family, help them understand their options during labor and delivery, and provide reassurance and encouragement. We attend all types of births, from planned unmedicated to planned cesarean and everything in
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What Does it Look Like to Have a Colorado Mountain Doula at Your Birth? You’ve probably at least heard of a doula before. You know that they are hired support persons for labor and delivery and that they’ll probably rub your back and help you breathe through the contractions. But what could having one really
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Your baby has been born, and you’re settling in at home – but is the experience really “over” unless you’ve been able to process what just happened? Whether your birth was smooth or complicated, long or short, scary or satisfying, it is vital to spend some time in reflection after one of the most high-impact
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Birth fear is something that has been handed down to us in the last few generations. Everywhere you turn, people are more than willing to tell you the horror story of their birth or their fear of dying during childbirth. It hasn’t always been this way. There was a time when birth was just a
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Colorado Mountain Doulas is partnering with All Things Baby Photography to bring you a truly extravagant experience you’ll want to remember forever! Our clients truly appreciate the best things in life and know that the memories of their birth experience will be with them for the rest of their lives. Our unique photography and doula package
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Twenty years ago today I became a mother for the very first time. Originally I had planned to come here and write out a beautiful birth story for him, but the reality is that his birth wasn’t beautiful. There were a lot of things that happened that affected me for a long long time. There
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You heard me. This agency does not hire birth advocates and we do not advocate for our clients. Instead, we support our clients and give them the tools to ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES. Advocating FOR someone implies that they are unable to do it for themselves. Advocates are for animals and children and those who otherwise
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If you are pregnant or planning to be pregnant in the near future, you are probably wondering things like, “How do I find an OB in Denver,” “Are there home birth midwives in Colorado Springs?” “Can I have a midwife in a Colorado hospital?” All of these are valid things to be thinking about, but as a
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Hi Jen. Thanks so much for chatting with me about the very important work that you do. This is the last week of #Cesareanawarenessmonth and I wanted to chat with you about the class you have coming up and the myths and realities people of size face during birth. First, tell me a little about
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