At a Twitter DoulaParty about a week ago, I heard about some informative YouTube videos for doulas and childbirth educators recorded by Janice Banther. There are 13 videos so far on Janice’s YouTube channel, ranging in length from 2-11 minutes in length. Learn some tricks to getting doctors to sign off on your evaluations, how to schedule doula clients, and how to help clients during birth in a variety of situations.

After I attend a birth, it’s important for me to process through it. Sometimes I ask my husband to listen, sometimes I call a fellow doula or mentor, and every time, I put pen to paper. My whole being runs the gamut of emotions

Balancing your home life while building your birth business takes practice and experimentation. Many birth professionals are also mothers of young children, and much of the work we do managing our businesses is at home while we’re also mothering and running the household. As business owners, how do we make time for it all?

Many people talk about NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, however very few people actually know what it is. That’s largely due to the fact that’s it’s a collection of techniques rather than one specific thing.