Happy World Doula Week!!!!

Exie & Ciana are back together and catching up on all the things they've missed in each other's lives over the past several months. 

Trigger warning: Pet loss

Points of interest: Updates on our parenting journeys, work, home improvements, and more

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🎉It's 2023 and we're kicking the year off with an interview that can help you improve your pregnancy health.

Sarah Thompson is a Functional Maternity Practitioner and author. She is sharing what she has learned during her decades of experience working alongside physicians to help improve the pregnancy care expectant parents are receiving. 

From preconception to postpartum, learn how addressing the needs of the mother as an individual can benefit the baby that will come.

▪️Learn more about how Sarah's Practice can help you
▪️Get Sarah's Book: Functional Maternity: Using Functional Medicine and Nutrition to Improve Pregnancy and Childbirth Outcomes
▪️Get the first 3 chapters of Sarah's Book for Free
▪️Get Sarah's Free Functional Fertility Download
▪️Follow Sarah on Instagram
(The link between Vit D & Pain Levels)
▪️Email Sarah: hello@functionalmaternity.com

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Have you ever wondered what it's like to be pregnant with twins? How about giving birth to or nursing twins? How about doing it all during a global pandemic with a toddler at home?

In this episode, our first listener birth story is with Ashley Haupt, an aspiring doula, and mother of 3 boys. Join us as she recounts her journey of overcoming multiple challenges, twists, and turns to achieve her goal of a vaginal twin birth.

⚠️Trigger Warning: Some of Ashley's birth story may be difficult for some listeners to hear. Please take care while listening.

Ashley's book recommendation: When you're expecting Twins, Triplets and Quads by Dr. Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein, and Dr. Roger B. Newman
You can talk to Ashley about your journey if you are pregnant with twins. Just use the links below.

Contact or follow Ashley

• Email: ash.haupt5@gmail.com
• Instagram: @runningonendorphins

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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MOVIE: AFTERSHOCK on Hulu (check for region availability) Click for Trailer

• This movie follows the journey of families who have experienced the death of a new mother during or after childbirth
• Why is the US such a dangerous place to have a baby?
• Why do black mothers in America die at a rate of 3-4 times higher than others?
• What can all women do to improve their feelings of safety, autonomy, and agency when giving birth?

Join us as we reflect on this movie, how maternity care in America hurts and kills women, and how doulas on the ground level can make a difference.

We want to hear from you and keep the discussion going: share your thoughts, stories, experiences, and opinions on this movie and our discussion. Send an email or DM on social media, Your comments may be shared in a follow-up episode. You may be contacted to be a guest.

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Special Guest and Co-host: Latonya Baldwin, PPD

• Owner of Doula Me, Love
• website: Doula Me, Love 
• facebook: Doula Me, Love
• Latonya's Book Recommendations
  • Granny Midwives & Black Women Writers by Valerie Lee -  Out of Print, available in libraries at many colleges and universities
  • Natural Hospital Birth by Cynthia Gabriel - Buy it on Amazon

Podcast Recommendations

• Doula2Doula Ep 5: Postpartum Recovery is NOT about the Baby
• Beloved Holistics Radio - Hosted by Dr. Nathan Riley, OBGYN 
  • Episode 42: A Brief History

Please email us if you want to be a guest on Doula2Doula or have your birth story featured in an upcoming episode.

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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Another school year of pandemic parenting is behind her and Ciana is sharing her reflections on how she and her kids successfully got through it. Both moms discuss some differences in their parenting journeys of school-aged children.

Happy summer to all!!! 😎🌞

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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We're pulling the curtain back on what it's like to live a life on call.

Join us for a candid conversation that reveals the not-so-glamours part of being birthworkers.
From keeping our cars filled with gas to whether or not we will buy event tickets, there is a lot about being birth doulas that have to be considered when thinking of going on call.

 

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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🎉It's World Doula Week and we are together again!!! 👩🏽‍🤝‍👩🏿🥰

In this episode, Exie & Ciana are celebrating doulas everywhere for World Doula Week, March 22-28, 2022.

Recently there has been an increase in public appreciation for the work of doulas and the positive impact we can have on people during different life-changing events. We discuss some well-known and, perhaps lesser-known, ways doulas provide support. 

If you are an aspiring doula, listen for some important questions you can ask when evaluating and choosing your training.

Also, the positive impact of doulas can extend beyond the obvious. Did you know that birth and postpartum doulas can help improve the maternal mental health of clients and help strengthen the foundation of families in the days and weeks of early parenthood? Listen to find out some simple things that can make a huge, lifelong impact.

Resources from this episode:

• International End of LIfe Doula Association (INELDA)
• Postpartum Support International
• CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, November 26, 2021

🤷‍♀️ Confused about your options and how to plan for your baby's grand entrance? Schedule a Virtual Prep/Planning Session or a Birth Class (Virtual or In-Person)

More info on all our services Here

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Please email us if you want to be a guest on Doula2Doula or have your birth story featured in an upcoming episode.

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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🎶 "All by myself..." 🎶

In this final episode of the mediocre year that was 2021, Exie shares her love of reading and some of the gems that helped her get through the last 11 months. If you are always on the lookout for good book recommendations, this might be the episode you've been waiting for.  Exie will give a brief description of the books that left indelible marks on her and how she ties them into her work as a birth professional. 

Listen and see why you might want to add these books to your 2022 book wishlist. You might even find the common thread that moved Exie to choose these 7 specifically to share.

1.  It's Ok that You're Not OK by Megan Devine
2.  Three Minus One by Sean Hanish & Brooke Warner
3.  When Survivors Give Birth by Penny Simkin & Phyllis Klaus
4.  Traumatic Childbirth by Cheryl Tatano Beck, Jeanne Watson Driscoll, & Sue Watson
5.  Policing the Womb by Michele Goodwin
6.  What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey
7.   In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate

Bonus book at end of the episode:
8.  Inferno by Catherine Cho

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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Here in the US people are very busy making plans for the winter holidays and if you're due during this season (or at any other holiday time) you may face the possibility of labor induction. What should you do? What if the induction doesn't work? What if it does?

In this episode, Exie is covering some interesting facts and considerations for anyone with babies due near a holiday date. As a mom who has experienced an induction that happened to land on a holiday and a birth professional who has supported and educated hundreds of pregnant people over the course of her career, Exie understands what you might be facing.

Also in this episode, Exie unveils 2 new classes she will begin teaching in 2022 and is offering you the chance to have one of these classes for FREE!

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More information on topics in this episode at Evidence Based Birth Blog
(note: Exie has no affiliation with Evidence Based Birth, just a great amount of respect and appreciation for the unbiased infor

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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Well, here we are...mid-August with the new school year knocking on Ciana's door.  She's faced some tough decisions, as have many of you. Listen as she shares how she and her family are coping & planning for the new year.

Also in this episode: 

• Exie shares her 1st in-person doula support oopsie
• Exciting news related to the work we love!

Learn more about the Motherhood Expo coming to Detroit in October 2021 - tickets on sale now

• Are you a Birth Pro in SEMI? Expo Sponsorship opportunities are still available

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Tranquil Touch Birth & Women's Wellness
Birth support services helping clients feel supported, cared for and confident about birth.

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DISCLAIMER: The thoughts and opinions expressed on Doula2Doula are those of the participants. They do not represent any organization or profession. This show is meant to be informative, educational, and entertaining. Nothing in any episode (past, present, or future) should be construed as medical advice or take the place of your medical professional.
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