Posts by Jen Chandlee

As a postpartum doula and doula trainer, I get this question a LOT. Everyone from family, friends, and expectant parents, to care providers, and even other doulas. Usually birth doulas who don’t offer postpartum care, but yes, sometimes even other postpartum doulas! As my own father still likes to say, “a do-what?!”  Because we mostly…

There’s been a quiet yet problematic phenomenon in the perinatal world for decades now. It isn’t the birth plan not being taken seriously (though that does happen) or parents not getting everything on their baby registry (which is a total bummer, for sure) or even parents experiencing anxiety just trying to figure out which car…