New Requirements for Alberta Doulas Are you planning to give birth in an Alberta hospital? Are you planning to hire a doula for support? We thought you should know the new requirements for doulas in hospitals. First, you should have
How to Advocate to Have Your Support Person
How can you advocate for your support?
Looking for Pain Relief?
Electric fish, needles and angry catfish. What do these things have in common? Well, these were electrical stimulus used by the ancients for pain relief and while we don’t have any angry catfish from the Nile in our doula bags,
Some Warming Recipes for Your Fourth Trimester
The fourth trimester is the 12-week period immediately after you have had your baby. Not everyone has heard of it, but every mother and their newborn baby will go through it. It is a time of great physical and emotional
Postpartum Services
Peaceful Passage Doulas are excited to announce that we will now be offering complete postpartum care packages! The postpartum period, also lovingly called the “Fourth Trimester” is a time marked by so many emotions and experiences. Whether you have just
Peaceful Passage Doulas Now Offer Postpartum Services
Peaceful Passage Doulas are excited to announce that we will now be offering complete postpartum care packages! The postpartum period, also lovingly called the “Fourth Trimester” is a time marked by so many emotions and experiences. Whether you have just
Erin: On Being a CLC
Breastfeeding is something I’ve felt drawn to and so passionate about since I was pregnant with my first child. I can’t place my finger on the moment or the event that turned this part of my brain on specifically, but
We have been busy!
We have been busy new doulas over the summer! Not only are we doing our reading, writing and collecting of data, we have been attending births in order to get to our certification. AND, we have been taking advantage of a
Birth of Baby T – Erin’s First Experience
My very first birth as a doula. As mama’s due date came and went I knew my first experience as a doula as drawing more and more near, that sweet babe couldn’t stay in there forever after all. Another week
What a First Experience!
What a first experience, both for the momma and for me. On a Wednesday in June the dad texted me at 3:38 a.m. to tell me the momma’s water had broken. They headed to the hospital shortly after. At about 6:30 a.m. the momma texted to