Your Guide to a Healthy Birth Experience

Once the excitement of finding out you are pregnant has passed, one of the first things that many pregnant women do is calculate their...

In this blog post Ottawa Doula, Julia Davie, explains each of these factors in detail and discusses how optimizing the physiological express

For some, birth is transformational and empowering. For others, birth is a means to an end. Either way, making informed decisions during...

Have you heard of TENS machines? In recent years, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) machines have become increasingly...

"What to ask a doula during the interview," "questions to ask your doula during your interview," and "questions to ask your prospective...

As practicing birth doulas in Ottawa, talking up the benefits of postpartum skin to skin contact between parents and the newborn is one...

One of the questions I am asked most frequently when people find out I am a birth doula is “what is the difference between a doula and a...

I never thought I would be writing a post about the cervix, and yet here we are! Why devote an entire blog post to a single body part?...

Delayed cord clamping is a practice of waiting a period of time, usually between 2 and 5 minutes, before clamping and cutting the baby's...