by ScarlettLynsky | Apr 16, 2013 | Birth, Doula, Labor
What do you feel like when you come home from a day of work? Tired? Energized? Cranky? Cuddly? When I come home from a day (or more) of being with a laboring mom I feel like I’ve been in another world. A world where life and death hang in the balance. A world...
by ScarlettLynsky | Nov 3, 2011 | Birth, Doula, Labor
Everybody has opinions. Everybody has biases. I’m no different. Lets just get that out of the way right here. Something else to get out of the way: I am a birth junkie. It’s what I geek out on. When I had my two babies, I had not one second of doubt about...
by ScarlettLynsky | Sep 7, 2011 | Birth, Doula, Labor
Does every woman need a doula? I’m a doula, so I’m pretty sure I’m supposed to answer this question with an unequivocal “yes.” But that wouldn’t be quite honest, would it? Because, like most things, it’s more complicated than...