Solano Doula Group

19/02/2025

Are you a birth (or related field) pro offering services in Solano County? DM or visit link for more info!

13/02/2025

Spinning Babies 1-day training is being hosted at Kaiser Vacaville! 🙌
If you have not yet done this training, do it!!! 😃https://lms.spinningbabies.com/Customer/BrowseWorkshop.aspx

12/02/2025

Hello Doulas! Would you like to become a formal member of Solano Doula Group? You would have a personal profile listing on the solanodoulagroup.com website and receive contact info to those requesting doula services from website inquiries. We also host members-only meets and plan community outreach events such as "meet the doulas".
Membership is $35/year. You can apply at https://www.solanodoulagroup.com/sdg-app

We'll be hosting an open-to-all meeting over Zoom on Tuesday, February 18 at 7:00p and another on Saturday, February 22 at 2p.
Zoom ID: 354 208 6820
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3542086820

24/06/2024

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=794895919417792&id=100066921739082&mibextid=Nif5oz

On Thursday, August 8th from 11AM-1:30PM, the Breastfeeding Coalition of Solano County will be celebrating our 7th annual Donor Breast Milk Drive and Celebration in honor of National Breastfeeding Month! The Breastfeeding Coalition and the Solano County WIC Program are partnering with the San Jose Mother’s Milk Bank to encourage mothers to donate their extra breast milk for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Just ¼ ounce of donated breast milk can help the tiniest of premature infants thrive.

In addition to the Donor Breast Milk Drive, we invite you and your family to join us for light refreshments and visit the various community organizations in attendance that will be sharing resources for families as well as fun activities for everyone to experience that focus on how breastfeeding is the foundation for optimal nutrition, health and well-being, and a healthy community!

26/07/2023

If you are interested in learning how to support mothers with breastfeeding, register at https://ccmewbftraining2023.eventbrite.com for this free 20-hr virtual training being held August 14 thru 18th from 8:30 to 1:00 pm.

20/07/2023

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=609784631262256&id=100066921739082&mibextid=Nif5oz

This year, the Breastfeeding Coalition of Solano County is celebrating our 6th annual Donor Breast Milk Drive and Celebration in honor of National Breastfeeding Month! The Breastfeeding Coalition and the Solano County WIC Program are partnering with the San Jose Mother’s Milk Bank to encourage mothers to donate their extra breast milk for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Just ¼ ounce of donated breast milk can help the tiniest of premature infants thrive.

In addition to the Donor Breast Milk Drive, we invite you and your family to join us for light refreshments and visit the various community organizations in attendance that will be sharing resources for families as well as fun activities for everyone to experience that focus on how breastfeeding is the foundation for optimal nutrition, health and well-being, and a healthy community!

For more information, please contact Christina Hatcher (707) 784-8329.

When: Thursday, August 17, 2023 from 11:00am - 1:30pm
Where: Multipurpose Room, 2101 Courage Dr., Fairfield 94533

01/04/2023

It's time!!! Come find out more about Solano Doula Group! Hope to “meet” you soon! 🙂

If you want to learn more about what a doula is, how you can become a doula, or want to network with doulas serving Solano County, this is the meeting and group for you!!

Today's Solano Doula Group Meeting is open to the public so come and join in the conversation!

TODAY at 1:00pm

Zoom Meeting ID: 897 7902 3965
Passcode: 052901

01/04/2023

TODAY at 1:00pm!!! Come find out more about Solano Doula Group! Hope to “meet” you soon! 🙂

If you want to learn more about what a doula is, how you can become a doula, or want to network with doulas serving Solano County, this is the meeting and group for you!!

Today's Solano Doula Group Meeting is open to the public so come and join in the conversation!
TODAY at 1:00pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 897 7902 3965
Passcode: 052901

Please join us for our Solano Doula Group meeting! We are opening this meeting to the greater public. Feel free to join us to learn more about who we are and what we offer the community. Looking forward to meeting you!

01/04/2023

TODAY at 1:00pm!!! Come find out more about Solano Doula Group! Hope to “meet” you soon! 🙂

If you want to learn more about what a doula is, how you can become a doula, or want to network with doulas serving Solano County, this is the meeting and group for you!!

Today's Solano Doula Group Meeting is open to the public so come and join in the conversation!
TODAY at 1:00pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 897 7902 3965

Please join us for our Solano Doula Group meeting! We are opening this meeting to the greater public. Feel free to join us to learn more about who we are and what we offer the community. Looking forward to meeting you!

07/03/2023

“I Won’t Hold Your Baby

…unless you ask me to, in which case, I will snuggle and cuddle your baby as much as you want me to.

I never ask my clients if I can hold their baby. In fact, I rarely ever touch my client’s baby if I can help it. Sounds sort of like the opposite of what you might picture of a doula, right? We must all be birth crazy, baby obsessed women who just want to cover babies in kisses and love and get an emotional high from attending births?

Not this doula.

I LOVE attending births. Call me crazy, but getting those middle of the night calls is one of my favorite parts of this job. I get to listen to someone at their most vulnerable times - the excitement, the hesitation, the nervousness of the unknown. Being able to provide some comfort, reassurance and continuity of care to the people I work with is so important to me (and them!)

Rushing off in the night, quietly getting myself ready, getting in the car and heading off to their home or hospital makes me feel like I’m on a secret birth mission that nobody around me knows about. When I arrive I fall as seamlessly as I can into the rhythm of the birth and start supporting my clients in whatever way they need most.

When the baby arrives I step aside and leave room for the new parents to discover their baby. I try and grab some photos (I’m not a birth photographer though, so keep your expectations in check!) and then I only step in if my client needs me for some reason.

Why does that matter? Why won’t I ask to hold your baby? Simply because: they are yours, not mine. I want you to be able to hold your baby as close as you want, for as long as you want without anyone interrupting that time. There will be enough people coming along in the next few hours and weeks who need to take that baby out of your arms for whatever reason, and tons of friends and family who will offer help by “holding the baby”.

Instead, I want to hold you, whether that’s in my arms, in my heart or my thoughts. By supporting and “holding” you, I don’t need to hold your baby. But if you ask me to, I would LOVE to.”

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21/02/2023

Spotlight on Lactation Consultants!
Who here is an IBCLC, LC, or LE? Or, who is in your contact list that serves Solano County? 😃🧐

12/10/2022

Doulas aren’t just for the moms!