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Distance Doulaing During Coronavirus: Keeping Contact and Connection

March 13, 2020 By doulamaddie

We might be stuck at home, but the wonders of the World Wide Web can bring us together, create and maintain strong bonds and enable us to achieve a lot of what we used to do face to face! If you are self isolating or limiting social contact currently, but need some support, I am happy to talk to Continue Reading

A Watched Pot Never Boils: Waiting for Labour to Begin

December 2, 2019 By doulamaddie

We have been lying to women for years. Labour doesn't 'start' when we are 3 or 4 or even 5 cms. The birth process started weeks ago, when your body and brain began to change. Waiting for labour to begin can be a time of impatience and discomfort at the best of times, but these days it can be even Continue Reading

Twin Birth – How it CAN Be

October 30, 2011 By doulamaddie

A very special, very strong, determined and wonderful client has given me permission to share her story here. After a homebirth first time round, she had implicit faith in her body's ability to grow and birth her babies in a very ordinary, normal way. It took us a while to get our equally trusting, Continue Reading

Why Just One Day?

April 3, 2011 By doulamaddie

This post is dedicated to all the amazing doulas I know who 'mother the mother', to every breastfeeding support worker I know and to every single mother I have ever supported - you are all incredible. One day? One day of the year we get. Just one. One day to appreciate, to thank, to hug to our Continue Reading

Do We Need Antibiotics for Premature Rupture of Membranes?

December 3, 2008 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Articles The Lancet, Volume 372, Issue 9646, Pages 1310 - 1318, 11 October 2008 Editors' note: In 2001, the ORACLE I trial showed that in women with premature rupture of the fetal membranes, but no overt sign of infection, erythromycin and co-amoxiclav prolonged pregnancy and erythromycin also Continue Reading

Fathers’ Home Birth Handbook

November 6, 2008 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

This book has just been published and I think it is so well written and will fill a much-needed void in the information available for Fathers. It is written by the lovely Leah Hazard, a doula colleague of mine and I'm proud to say that a couple of the fathers who tell their stories are the husbands Continue Reading

Why we need to make informed choices about the drugs we take while breastfeeding

October 18, 2008 By doulamaddie 1 Comment

I wasn't aware til recently quite how much an effect codeine can have on us and our newborns when we're breastfeeding. I've recently been supporting a mother who was very sleepy and extremely constipated around 1 week postpartum. Her baby was also very sleepy indeed and just not taking the breast at Continue Reading

August 17, 2008 By doulamaddie Leave a Comment

Love what this woman can do - take a look at this:http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11866448 Wonderful for educating children - maybe preparing older siblings for being at a homebirth? Continue Reading

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