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MamaViews iPad Mini Giveaway

We've partnered with MamaViews, the largest doula and baby nurse review site, to giveaway an iPad Mini in celebration of Nurture Week. Finding the right support is a critical ste[...]

Diplomacy and Human Rights in the Labor Room,The Answer to Change

I recently spent one entire week in the company, of midwives, physicians, doulas, and birth professionals from all over the United States and from countries such as Korea, Vietnam[...]

Doulas as Bridges

Recently Monica Lundry ( an RN and friend) and I hosted an event for the book launch of Dr. Mark Zakowski called "C-Section: How to Avoid, Prepare for and Recover From Your Ces[...]

Postpartum Doulas in Brazil: Supporting Mothers in a Cesarean Culture

Brazil calls me, often, in every sense of the word. I am Brazilian, originally from there. And I am an advocate for natural birth here in Los Angeles. I own a birthing education[...]

Alisa's Top 3 Picks for Baby Products

My #1 baby product....well it isn’t really a product, but I see it as CRUCIAL! 1. A Post Partum Doula 2. Breast pump 3. Baby sling My #1 baby product pick isn’t a product at[...]

Birth Day with Val: From Inspired to Inspiring

Becoming a doula really started when I was working as an EMT for an ambulance company on the Central Coast of California. I had the opportunity to go into the OR with a respiratory[...]

From One Mother's Arms into Another

New moms can be your best resource in transferring crucial parenting and bonding techniques. After my daughter was born a friend came to visit with a gift, a bottle of Weleda Cale[...]

The Postpartum Blues & What You Can Do

When I go back 7 years ago to when I was pregnant with my first child, Jasper, it was very difficult for me to even entertain what life would be like postpartum. It was all I could[...]

So the Baby is Here, Now What?

By Alisa Donner, MSW, LCSW, Co-Founder P.A.M. Anna and I used this title in one of our Expert Panels at this past May’s Kick-off Event for Pregnancy Awareness Month® on May 1st [...]

The Incredible and Well Worth Investment of a Post-Partum Doula

The word doula has gained incredible popularity in the past decade. The joke in big cities is not if you have a doula but WHO is your doula. Women have become familiar and embraced[...]