Robin Elise Weiss, PhD, MPH, LCCE, CLC, AdvCD(DONA)

Robin and Hillary on holding space for yourself during the early pandemic, pivoting birth business work, and learning what we are actually able to do under pressure.

Bonus episode: Nichole Joy on the marketing, pricing, and planning specifics of shifting your doula services to offer virtual support.

Debra Pascali-Bonaro on bringing pleasure back into the birthing and postpartum space, and her book The Ultimate Guide to Sex After Baby.

Ann Grauer on how postpartum doulas can effectively support new families during social distancing and changing hospital policies, even without being physically present.

Connie Sultana on virtual doula work during the pandemic and beyond, drawing on her time as DONA International Director of Certification and 900-plus families.

Sharon Muza on taking childbirth classes online in the early COVID-19 weeks, plus Robin and Hillary on the Did my water break? question with a handout for clients.

Hillary talks with CPM Augustine Colebrook on sustainable midwifery, traveling the world, social justice in the birth world, and training across borders.

Episode Summary Prodromal labor gets called a lot of things in birth spaces, and most of them are wrong. “False labor” is the one that bothers me most, because the moment you attach that word to someone’s contractions, you’ve handed the people around them permission to stop paying attention. The contractions are real. The exhaustion

Dr. Britta Bushnell on teaching with story to recreate the hormonal state, the process of becoming parents, and her book Transformed by Birth.

Robin and Hillary on how each of them became childbirth educators, what parents actually get from a good class, and International Childbirth Education Week.