Podcast

Robin interviews east coast doulas Tia and Shannon, hosts of the Doula Sense podcast, on childbirth education, birth, postpartum, breastfeeding, and the hard topics.

Mandy Irby, The Birth Nurse, on nurses and doulas working together for culture change in hospital birth, plus career pivots and online teaching.

Elizabeth M. Johnson with Hillary on trauma-informed care, empathy versus kindness, and shifting her When Survivors Give Birth course online.

Kelli Brien on what drew her into birth work and how she has moved through the system to make it more just and equitable for all birthing people.

Dr. Amy Brown on working with families around infant feeding choices, breastfeeding grief, and the work of supporting parents through real decisions.

Robin and Hillary on the question we get asked as doulas and scholars: what would you change in maternity care? And it does not just involve the art on the walls.

Darcy Sauers, founder of The Postpartum Doula Academy, on collaboration over competition, marketing your birth business, and what doulas waste time on.

Barbara Hotelling on training nursing students to be doulas, the Duke-la program, creative anemia testing in resource-constrained settings, and more.

Meagen and Julie from The VBAC Link on VBAC in a pandemic, special VBAC doula considerations, and processing traumatic past births so you can let go in the next one.

Hillary and Robin chat from home about working virtually: Hillary as a birth doula, Robin training new doulas and teaching childbirth education, what works, what does not.