Posts by Julia Sittig

Born to birth. Trust your team. One at a time.  That’s the mantra that slipped onto the page while emailing a client recently. And it applies to every part of labor. Labor is not meant to be a medical event. It’s not meant to be a solo event. And, unlike the marathons that labor is often compared…

The topic of interventions–during labor and at birth–can be controversial. Everyone has an opinion to share, and as an expecting mom those opinions can be overwhelming. It can often be the case that questions rather than answers arise when hearing the past stories of laboring women. The neighbor down the street just had a drug-free,…

So imagine this… Today’s the day you give birth. You have spent the last 9 months planning for today and it’s finally here. Yay! Except then you remember you haven’t done this before, or it has been a while since your last child was born. And lots of thoughts and questions start going through your head……

It’s not your Ma’s Lamaze! For years (mostly around the time when many of our mothers were giving birth), Lamaze childbirth education became widely known as a ‘method’ for birth, teaching a breathing and coping style that came to be known by its name. Lamaze today is a ‘philosophy’ of birth, founded on 6 Healthy…

I was reminded yesterday of two very important things related to my work as a doula: community and passion. Core elements to why we do what we do, and what I find to be the foundation of what keeps me going. As we close  out World Doula Week for 2016, I’m inviting you to celebrate…