Labor Support – You Mean That’s A Profession?
In my twenty-five years of offering labor support professionally, there is one persistent challenge that our profession still faces: that of legitimacy. While people may be more knowledgeable about what the term doula means, they are still befuddled by what we actually do. If you asked someone who already knew what a doula was, what a doula actually did, they would be hard pressed to describe it accurately. Most people think (even those we think should know bette…