Golden Gate Doula Associates

04/25/2024

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We're so excited announce our upcoming Mama Mocktail Social, May 11th, 2-4pm. Sign up now to be first in line for a Goodie Bag! Link in bio 🔗

11/30/2023

Santa and the Hanukkah Elf are
Coming to Golden Gate Doula Associates this Sunday!! Bring the kids and have some holiday fun!!

You're invited to Family Pictures with Santa - Click here to RSVP

03/27/2023

Doula Bowling League??? Yes, please!!

03/23/2023

Coming June 17th to Golden Gate Doula Center! Get your tickets NOW on the Early Bird Special!

San Francisco, CA. Doula Training for Comfort, Connection and Care – Golden Gate Doula Associates, Sat Jun 17, 2023 - Join Gena Garcia Kirby for a full day of instruction, laughs and tears. This workshop is unconventional - fun, silly, surprisingly profound, and very, very different. If you aren't...

12/17/2022

The annual Golden Gate Doulas Holiday Party was a blast! Julianna Winer, Amy Baker, Doula

11/26/2022

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The Golden Gate Doula Associates was founded in 2016 by Jennifer Darwin and has quickly become a trusted resource for all your maternity and postpartum needs.  Located in the Dog Patch Neighborhood, GGDA is the first and only established Doula Center in San Francisco. ​ We understand that you...

10/23/2022

Our hearts go out to all the families involved and to our sister doulas at North Dallas Doula Associates. Such a tragic story and hopefully will bring some much needed changes in security!

Two hospital employees died in a shooting at Methodist Dallas Medical Center Saturday morning, and the shooter is in police custody. The hospital released a statement Saturday afternoon. "The preliminary investigation determined a suspect shot and killed two hospital employees," the hospital's state...

08/09/2022

Golden Gate Postpartum Doula Amy Baker!

06/29/2022

Any other Birth Workers out there struggling with how to support pregnant people right now? How can we support people who now have the added stress of worrying about their rights and what would happen to their life if faced with an emergency during their pregnancy?

06/10/2022

The Bay Area is heating up! Please be careful out there! If you are Pregnant, HYDRATE HYDRATE HYDRATE! It’s so easy to fall behind especially wearing masks and in this heat! Also, keep those babies cool!

06/01/2022

Don’t wait for labor to start to begin practicing those comfort techniques! Take a class and learn those coping skills: deep breathing, aromatherapy, acupressure, positioning, hydrotherapy, and so much more! But, make to you PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE before you go into labor! During labor is not the right time to try to learn a new skill! And, YES deep breathing IS A SKILL!

05/22/2022

Posted • 👉🏽 I sit in multiple layers of privilege as a white doula who advocates in the birthroom
👉🏽 I hold myself and all white doulas accountable for addressing the multiple ways in which we contribute to the barriers, challenges and discrimination that BIPGM doulas face when advocating for the needs of their communities in the birthroom
👉🏽 Advocacy in the birthroom is unique to every doula and every birthing person they serve
👉🏽 white doulas have an entirely different experience and typically fail to address the multiple ways in which they uphold systems, policies and practices that directly and negatively, impact the tireless birthroom advocacy work of BIPGM doulas
👉🏽 white doulas need to do better

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04/21/2022

Have you ever heard of the "Rest and Be Thankful" Phase?
This pause in labor happen more often than you know!

In some hospitals and birth centers, moms are asked to begin pushing during this phase even if they don't feel the urge to push. Sometimes pushing too early is not beneficial to either mom or the baby.

During this resting phase contractions have been know to stop or slow down for up to an hour! During this time, your body is resting up for the BIG PUSH! Your body knows exactly what to do! As the baby gets lower into your pelvis, you may feel a lot of re**al pressure and doulas often hear the words “I NEED TO POOP!”. This is the baby descending lower and lower pressing on your rectum… and, yes! It does feel like you need to p**p! You may even have a minor bowel or urination accident. This means that the baby is coming and is super low!

This strong mama actually feel asleep (Unmedicated) for 15 minutes and woke up to push her baby out in 3 pushes! The midwife waited patiently and did not pressure her to begin pushing even though she was completely dilated.
She allowed her to REST AND BE THANKFUL!

04/17/2022

The GGDA doula members know the key to success is to empower each other, to lift each other up!
Posted • I am so excited to share this next amazing birthworker: Doula Erica. Erica has been a key proponent in facilitating a huge step in growth for my own practice and for that I cannot say thank you enough.

Erica reached out to me back in November 2021, and at this point I had just left Nicaragua and was staying in Mexico until I was able to return back to California. I did not have any concrete next steps planned out besides getting settled back to a new version of normal where stability and community was a priority.

Like all of birthwork, receiving a message from Erica was nothing less than divine timing. Erica was my first look into Golden Gate Doula Associates, a doula agency that has been everything I needed and more. She mentioned they were looking for birth doulas to join the team and she reached out because she felt I might be a good fit. Little did I know that GGDA would soon become my network of advice, support, learning, growth, and love.

Erica helped to facilitate meetings with GGDA and before I knew it, by the time I was back home in California, I began the process of onboarding with this incredible community.

Not only is Erica and incredible Birthworker, mainly providing postpartum support, but she has also started a YouTube channel about Healing, Faith, Trauma, and the Christian Church. She also has the cutest pup who I got to meet a few weeks back.

Huge shoutout to Doula Erica and the warmth, love, and support.
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