This study, based on in-depth interviews with 30 self-identified radical doulas working in the US, describes the radical practices, positionality, and orientation towards reproductive justice that distinguish these care workers from mainstream doulas. Radical doulas provide nonjudgmental support in a full-spectrum of reproductive experiences from menarche to menopause according to the needs of their clients. As non-medically trained care workers, they provide informational, emotional, and physical support during abortion, birth and postpartum, fetal loss, adoption, or surrogacy, enacting individualized skill sets across settings from homes to hospitals and clinics. Radical doulas are paid professionals, but often offer a sliding-scale for f...
ABSTRACT The migration of births from the home environment to the hospital resulted in transformati...
Background: Doula services, non-medical support during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period h...
Caring for pregnant and postpartum families is a complex and multifaceted experience for birth worke...
This dissertation is an investigation of doulas as agents of social change through the lens of femin...
A doula is a non-medical birth attendant. Obstetric doctors and midwives have the responsibility of ...
This dissertation explores the emergence of labor support doulas as an occupational group and the im...
Doulas are specialized caregivers who provide emotional support, information, comfort measures, and ...
Continuous support during labor has been demonstrated to have positive effects on maternal and infan...
Systemic racism is embedded in healthcare settings and is linked to high maternal mortality rates fo...
Doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational support to women during pregnancy, childbirth, a...
Despite the importance of respectful pregnancy care, birthing people experience high rates of mistre...
Articlehttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96987/1/UMURF-Issue06_2009-AStokfisz.pd
The rise of COVID-19 cases at hospitals translates to shifting policies about who can be present at ...
This dissertation explores the knowledge systems that doulas use to legitimate their work to the med...
What happens when the births we witness as doulas contradict the way birthing people experience them...
ABSTRACT The migration of births from the home environment to the hospital resulted in transformati...
Background: Doula services, non-medical support during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period h...
Caring for pregnant and postpartum families is a complex and multifaceted experience for birth worke...
This dissertation is an investigation of doulas as agents of social change through the lens of femin...
A doula is a non-medical birth attendant. Obstetric doctors and midwives have the responsibility of ...
This dissertation explores the emergence of labor support doulas as an occupational group and the im...
Doulas are specialized caregivers who provide emotional support, information, comfort measures, and ...
Continuous support during labor has been demonstrated to have positive effects on maternal and infan...
Systemic racism is embedded in healthcare settings and is linked to high maternal mortality rates fo...
Doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational support to women during pregnancy, childbirth, a...
Despite the importance of respectful pregnancy care, birthing people experience high rates of mistre...
Articlehttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/96987/1/UMURF-Issue06_2009-AStokfisz.pd
The rise of COVID-19 cases at hospitals translates to shifting policies about who can be present at ...
This dissertation explores the knowledge systems that doulas use to legitimate their work to the med...
What happens when the births we witness as doulas contradict the way birthing people experience them...
ABSTRACT The migration of births from the home environment to the hospital resulted in transformati...
Background: Doula services, non-medical support during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period h...
Caring for pregnant and postpartum families is a complex and multifaceted experience for birth worke...