04/16/2024
While birth stories are not mine to share or much less, create. We can help fill in blanks and piece together the "what happened," questions. Doulas feel the waves of plans going awry as well as the family. Everyone who is impacted by the birth will come out with a feeling of how it went and it may be very similar or different.
I believe that the most important viewpoint is that of the birthing person but it can be helpful in debriefing births in the postpartum time to help piece together the gaps for the family.
We find ourselves assisting in carrying the emotions and helping navigating the decisions as they arise in birth. I am forever grateful for the support of the birth community to help process and continue to learn from births experiences. What a rewarding line of work we get to be in. I am so grateful to be invited in to each birth room that I've been a part of over the past decade plus!