I’m coming to you today from the comfort of my messy living room to deliver some tough love. This message is for the doulas, and while it may be an unpopular opinion, I’m going to say it while holding your hand: doulas — it doesn’t matter what you think.

As doulas, our role is to educate, empower, and support expecting families throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. But what if there was a tool that could seamlessly integrate into your practice—helping you provide even more value to your clients while making your job easier? That’s exactly what My Empowered Pregnancy Guide was designed to do.

These tips can help you open lines of communication and have more productive conversations about your birth preferences.

When it comes to discussing your birth plan, how you ask questions is just as important as the questions themselves

When you arrive at your client’s birthplace, knowing how and when to start supporting your client can feel overwhelming or intimidating. Here’s my go-to process for arriving at the birth space, acclimating to the environment, and jumping in for support.

Birth plans are great, wonderful, and important, but postpartum plans are really important, too. 

The great news is that all of these things can be done prenatally to set you up better for that fourth trimester when you come home with your baby.

No matter if you plan to be unavailable, or life just… happens, it’s important to have a solid backup and people you feel really comfortable leaving your clients with if it’s not you. 

Here are some ways that you can go about making sure you have that solid backup.

Did you know that the average length of a doula’s career is only five years?

Let’s talk about how you can avoid burnout in your birth business, and what kinds of things we should be doing and considering as doulas to make sure that we can continue to do this work as long as it lights our soul on fire.

it’s pretty easy to get wrapped up in our day-to-day tasks without actually stopping to say a simple “thank you” for all the little things that your partner does throughout their days to help and support you.

I’m bringing Matt back to the Birthing Bestie Blog again this month for another Partner Perspective. He’s sharing about his main takeaways from The Empowered Pregnancy Membership, and what lessons he brought with him into the delivery room!

You might be wondering: What is a birth philosophy? Well, a philosophy in itself is essentially the fundamental understanding of yourself. So when we are talking about a birth philosophy, we are talking about how you actually feel and think and understand birth to be in your own experience.