The Lindsay Clancy Trial and Postpartum Mental Health
The Lindsay Clancy trial has dominated headlines recently. Clancy admitted to killing her three children before attempting to end her own life in 2023.
Confessions of a Rule-Breaking Doula
If you have read my book, you will know that I performed vaginal exams as a doula, which is considered practicing medicine and illegal. All national training organizations, such as DONA and toLabor (formerly ALACE) strictly prohibit this procedure.
Why I Never Became a Midwife and Built a Birth Center Instead?
People sometimes point out that I wasn’t the first doula to open a birth center. Many midwives are doulas too, or were doulas long before they became midwives.