I am a doula. I love supporting birthing women and their loved ones as they
make families. I love supporting and giving to others in this work, and
receiving life-giving love and encouragement from them, too. Doulas do help
provide happy memories, which just might be the key to the best parenting.
Doulas empower women; foster maternal-infant bonding for the strength and
health of coming generations as well as birthing families; nurture and
support breastfeeding mothers toward health, nutrition and nurture of their
young; foster maternal/parental fulfillment so that every time a mother
(and fathers too) looks into the eyes of her precious offspring her deepest
memories are strong loving ones. That deep seated bias rightly formed from
the beginning goes a long, long way during the toughest challenges of
raising the young to give and receive love themselves, with confidence and
courage in this most profound life here on the planet.
With warmest love and respect for you all,
Raverna Wynn Stahl
Seattle, Washington
Reprinted from Midwifery Today E-News (Vol 2 Issue 14 April 7, 2000)
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