The Pragmatic Doulas

The Pragmatic Doulas

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The Pragmatic Doulas episodes

  • 82 Watch Your Language!
    This week The Doulas discuss the use of language in social media, your contracts or on your website and when interacting with potential clients.  You have to remember that what you say can value or devalue someones experience or who they are.  So watch your language!
    1 hr 11 min
  • 81 What Would You Have Done Differently?
    If you could go back to before you took your training, would you do anything differently?  Taken a different training? maybe not trained at all and become a cashier at a drug store.  Would you have researched your training organization better and thought about how they would support you and others?  Would you have asked about their equity initiatives and how they support POC?  The Doulas all this and a whole lot more.
    1 hr 16 min
  • 79 Life After Covid
    This week The Doulas discuss life after Covid and possibly retiring from in hospital births.  As well as the many issues surrounding Covid such as mask wearing and being considerate to those around you.  In short...wear a mask!!!
    1 hr 7 min
  • 78 Cultural Appropriation In The Birth World
    As our eyes are opened to the various ways in which systems can oppress and hold back various peoples, The Doulas take a look at how our birth work has contributed to the appropriation of tools and traditions from native cultures and how we can do better moving forward.
    1 hr 24 min
  • 76 Racism In The Doula World

    Systemic racism has been in the forefront of everyones mind lately.  And as caring as the doula world is, we are not immune to the effects of it.  This week the doulas discuss racism and its effects on the doula world in Ontario.  The Pragmatic Doulas will also be re-examining our own biases and making changes to how we do things in the future to make everyone who listens feel safe and heard. 

    1 hr 14 min
  • 75 Pelvic Physiotherapist Melissa Dessaulles
    This week The Doulas talk with founder of Mommy Berries, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist Melissa Dessaulles from Kelowna B.C.
    With a passion to educate and advocate for proactive, rather than reactive pelvic floor health, Melissa believes that by acknowledging the pelvic floors role in childbirth and providing client-centred rehabilitation, birthing parents can come out of feeling empowered.  
    This fabulous discussion had us all learning something about our pelvic floor that we did not know.  
    You can find Melissa on social media here:
    Instagram: @mommyberrieshealth
    FaceBook: Mommy Berries
    Youtube: Mommy Berries Health
    Website: www.mommyberries.com
    1 hr 40 min
  • 74 Three Crones Talk About Stuff
    Recorded on June 4, 2020 - This week The Doulas discuss how they are managing in the current world environment and a dream of Stephs leads into a discussion on trusting your instincts in all doula and life situations!!!
    1 hr 13 min
  • 73 Racism And What We Can Do

    Recorded on May 28, 2020 The Doulas discuss what is affecting all of us at this time, racism.  Following the murder of George Floyd, Suzanne, Stephanie and Kim discuss how it affecting them and what can be done by white people to finally put an end to these senseless killings of black people.  

    1 hr 50 min

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A common sense discussion on birth, postpartum, being a parent and life! Kim, Suzanne and Stephanie love to talk and with humour and a little cursing they navigate their lives as Doulas, Mums and…