In The Valley * Becoming a Doula

{photo by Season Atwater Photography}

As many of you have noticed I have twins. They were my first pregnancy. I really didn't know what I was doing. My mom gave birth out of state and we were all fairly new to the valley so we were at bit clueless as to finding a good doctor. A friend of mine at church was visiting classes that some local midwives were holding and I decided to check it out. I am sooo glad I did. After a lot of great education I was able to have two midwives as labor support at the hospital to help me through a vaginal birth of two healthy full sized twins.
I loved having the midwives there to be my advocate, help me with relaxation and make sure I was being taken care of as I wanted. Now there are Doula's in the valley who are trained just for the purpose of assisting your during labor and birth. If I am blessed with another baby I will have a Doula assisting me.


A lovely friend of mine Melissa, you may recognizer her as Raw Melissa (raw food lady), is one of these Doula's in The Valley. She is teaching Doula training classes at the beginning of November. If you have ever thought of working in this area her Doula classes are a great place to start. This is the first step toward training as a doula with the international organization, DONA. There is NO EXPERIENCE necessary.

Classes are
Dates:
Nov. 5th Thurs. 5pm-10pm
Nov. 6th Fri. 8am-6pm
Nov. 7th Saturday - 8am-6pm
Cost:
$300 (recovered in your first paying birth) including lunches and snacks for all three days, and a large syllabus of handouts.
She is willing to work with you on payment arrangements.

You can contact Melissa at
melissa@rawmelissa.com

website: rawmelissa.com
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birth twitter: twitter.com/doulamelissa
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