What a Doula Does Traumatic Experiences of Childbirth Are Leading Women to Seek an Alternative Form of Support. By Lorna Maclaren
The Herald › December 19, 2005
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WHEN Leah Hazard gets into her car and turns in the direction of home at the end of a long shift, she often muses over how her life has evolved. From the office-bound world of media research for the BBC, she is today responding to altogether more pressing deadlines - the arrival of newborn babies.
Hazard wanted to do something in life she felt benefited others, so she retrained as a doula. Roughly translated from Greek, the word means "mothers' helper" and the job it describes is as old as time.See the full content of this document
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What a Doula Does Traumatic Experiences of Childbirth Are Leading Women to Seek an Alternative Form of Support. By Lorna Maclaren
Throughout history, women could rely on the help of other female relatives and friends around the time of childbirth, but sadly, this is not usually the case in the modern world. A doula aims to fill that gap by providing consistent counsel and compassion during the transition to motherhood.
Today's women often find they have no-one to lean on in the clinical surroundings of hospital other than their equally worried partners, if they have o...See the full content of this document
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