Here is a a question I received about a month ago from Val Peterson of Birthday with Val: I love being a doula!! I would have to say that the most challenging area for me with this work is the financial consistency aspect

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?

Do you need to get malpractice insurance? Well, no, you really don’t. There haven’t been many cases of doulas getting sued. As long as you’re practicing in your scope, risk shouldn’t be high.

If you love your birth work, chances are you’ve got lots of books. Lots of them. And what about organizing handouts for clients? Then there are the nifty tools we take to births. Here are a few tips to keep it all straight.

Are you going mad because you spend lots of time searching for files on your computer? Here are some steps to getting your business files under control.

There are several ways to keep track of your client’s records. Today I’ll share what I do. It’s not necessarily the “right” way, but it’s a way that I have found works best for me and has evolved over the two years I’ve worked as a doula.

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So you want to be a doula. A Savvy one at that. I’d like to offer you 5 tips to help you be taken seriously as a business owner:

Do you wear other hats? Are you a childbirth educator, a postpartum doula, a photographer, a massage therapist, or any hold any other title in addition to being a birth doula? You should package your services.

A simple way to set yourself apart from your competitors is to effectively describe your services.