by Leslie Lytle | May 29, 2015 | Birth, Community, Five Questions, Pregnancy, Uncategorized
Sara Krivanec was drawn to being a doula after delivering her first child in a highly medicalized birth. Now she’s 14 years into the birth field, where she’s helped countless women (and herself) experience the type of care and support she yearned for when she...
by Leslie Lytle | May 22, 2015 | Birth, Community, Postpartum, Pregnancy
May is International Doula Month, so we partnered with doula teacher Thérèse Hak-Kun to talk about the integral role doulas play in guiding expectant families into parenthood.* For the past 18 years, I’ve facilitated doula training workshops all over North America...
by Leslie Lytle | May 5, 2015 | Community, Early Parenting, Postpartum, Pregnancy
My son was born by emergency C-section with a cord triple-wrapped around his neck. He arrived during a maelstrom of miscarriages, three before and three after his birth. In the same few years, I had surgeries to remove an adrenal tumor, my gall bladder, fibroid tumors...
