Doulable Birth

https://youtu.be/utCS5rzNkfU Doctor creates play doh model to demonstrate her son's cesarean birth for his 4th birthday!

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This title page is giving me feelings. i'm offended that the magazine asked this question as the lead in. Of course I'd be willing to hire a male doula - if men can't be everything that a doula is and does, what's the point? The point of teaching our sons better, expecting better from our dates/partners, expecting them to be good fathers, sons, brothers, lovers? A male doula is just a doula. ... If men can't be good birth partners, then there is no point to the Bradley Method (actually originally called Husband Coached Birth, by the way - they switched up the name to honor couples who are not hetero, not married - you can see it still in the letters after a Bradley teacher's name, AAHCC - American Academy of Husband Coached Childbirth, I think). If the doula's sex is actually "changing" the birth experience then we can't have male OBs, male OB nurses (I've met a lovely one in a Santa Monica hospital), male midwives. What's the point of even letting men in the room when their babies are born if men can't be doulas, and if having this male doula changes the birth experience then what the fuck!

FUck yess! I catch MYSELF judging and then I sternly reprimand myself!