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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Doulas"”.
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Women supporting women : the role of doulas in South African birth stories
… psychological benefits of birth companions, or doulas have been well documented over the last thirty years. This qualitative investigation provides, through the textured accounts of doulas and doula clients, insight into the nature of doula support.
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Paying it Forward: Training doulas as a form of reintegration and support for communities of color
<p>As part of the birth justice movement in Alameda County, Roots of Labor Birth Collective (RLBC) is committed to support, empower and care for birthing members of the community. RLBC works to empower people of color with education and tools to have healthy babies and positive birth experiences …
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Community-based doulas and their role in combating obstetric racism for marginalized BIPOC & migrant women: The Contigo Bilingual Doula Program
… I argue that community-based bilingual doulas are a justice-based necessity in a maternity care system that has failed its most vulnerable patients. Using frameworks of health justice, reproductive justice, autonomy, and structural competency, I contend that the integration of …
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A Bridge to Dying Well: Understanding the Role of End-of-Life Doulas in Vermont with Implications for Policy Changes
End-of-Life Doulas (EOLD) are an emerging profession attending to dying clients and their families. There are currently no national regulations, standards, or training mandates for EOLDs or policy solutions. Vermont has good EOLD training programs, a history of policy discussion on dying and an …
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Pasirengimas motinystei: dulų veiklos ypatumai /
… is to explore the process of becoming and being doulas, whose aim is to create a safe environment for the mother-to-be in their care. This is accomplished by 1) discussing doulas’ practice and presenting theoretical hypotheses of practice research, 2) examining the process of becoming a doula, …
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NEST: Not Even A Safe Territory: The Maternity Experiences Of Women Seeking Asylum In Australia
… interviews with women, midwives and doulas. Discussion: In order to increase midwives and doulas confidence in caring for and identifying women seeking asylum training is necessary in trauma-informed, culturally safe care. Organisational changes are needed to improve access to …
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Death Positive: An Analysis of an Authenticity Movement
… an increase in home funerals, the use of death doulas, simple earth burials, and greener cremations. Moving forward, I predict the death positive movement and use of more natural disposal options will continue to grow in popularity as Americans seek authenticity both in life and death. I believe …
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Towards the promotion of normal birth : action research in a tertiary maternity unit in Singapore
… who use the service, childbirth educators and doulas), in working together (co-creation) as a ‘team’ through systematic problem-solving processes to promote normal birth; (3) develop a culture within the tertiary maternity unit that is supportive of normal birth; and (4) develop understanding …
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First time parents' perceptions of their relationship across the transition to parenthood
… Nine couples were recruited through midwives and doulas in private practice and through their clients. Individual face to face interviews were conducted using an interview schedule as a guideline. The interviews were recorded electronically, transcribed and analysed following Tesch’s (2009) method …
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Reinterpreting Reproduction: An Ethnography Discourses, Ideologies, and Practices among Midwifery Participants In South Carolina
… licensed midwives, licensed midwife apprentices, doulas, natural childbirth educators, certified nurse midwives, and midwifery consumers who had either given birth at home, in a free standing birth center, or at the hospital. In addition I strived to situate these participant ideologies in the …
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Low income women‟s expectations, needs, and desires for social support in the postpartum period: a feasibility study.
… in this study had experience with birth doulas and expressed interest in postpartum doula care as a desirable method for providing individualized support to meet their needs and to fill deficits in their existing support systems. The findings from both the focus group analysis and the …
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Development of an instrument to measure mothers' perceptions of professional labor support
The purpose of this methodological study was to estimate the psychometric properties ofthe Perceived Professional Labor Support Tool (PPLST), a 51-item instrument designed to measure mothers' perceptions of professional labor support (PLS) provided by the registered nurse during labor. The PPLST …