Jennifer Wolfe's Advice for a Better Birth Experience

New York Times Article about Doulas

April 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02…2doula.html

Wow… just when it seems like we doulas are breaking through the old stereotypes the New York Times puts this Article out! Honestly my biggest complaint with it is that negative experiences with doulas are not the norm and there are no positive stories to balance the negative. It completely distorts the role we play and the contribution we make to create positive birth experiences.

I have done about 200 births as a doula and worked with hundreds of pregnant women doing hypnosis and prenatal yoga, my goal is not that every woman have a natural childbirth even if that is more often than not the outcome. My goal is that the women have a good birth experience, that includes making sure the staff and I are getting along so the womans’ experience is not impacted by having tension in the room. Also why attack lactation consultants???

This is so discouraging…any thoughts on something positive to do to counteract this negativity???

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Namaste from Jennifer

February 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Hello Everyone!

I am very excited because we are working on putting together a postnatal vinyasa yoga DVD. I would love your input and thoughts on what you’d like to see the next DVD include.

Also I’d like to hear some of the things you are dealing with during your pregnancy or postpartum recovery. As well I would love to create a forum here for people to talk about things that are working for them which might be beneficial to other pregnant women or postpartum moms. Please feel free to ask me questions or start discussions. I look forward to your posts! Keep doing Yoga!!!

Namaste,

Jennifer

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Hello world!

February 11th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Stay tuned. We will start blogging shortly