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When I think of doula, I think of mother in the mother.
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And I think it's like having not necessarily your mother,
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but the ideal mother or auntie there to support you.
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And it can be birth support, but it can also be support in pregnancy
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and definitely postnatal, that little mother in the mother,
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where you are held, where you don't have to think outside that space,
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where the doula supports you, gives you a continuum of care
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and holds you in your space.
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Thank you.
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I think the best way we can support mothers
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is to really change the culture of postpartum
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and to teach people that postpartum is never a job
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that was designed to be done alone.
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And that education has to start early,
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like at pregnancy, at the absolute latest.
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Hopefully we can get this message out to men, children,
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doctors, schools, everyone.
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but at the very least we need to start teaching in our childbirth education classes.
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That postpartum is a thing that is worth preparing for and it can change your life.
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If birth is no longer feared, numbed or endured,
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it can be the most powerful and positive thing a woman will ever experience in her lifetime.
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Thank you.
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So
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A doula is somebody who is your cheerleader.
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They're not there to coach you on how to have a natural birth.
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They're there to give you the information so you can make your own decisions on how you want to birth.
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Thank you.
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I so want to congratulate you and acknowledge that everything you do for dance...
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It's been so great to be here at the Doula Conference in 2018 and it's such a pleasure to talk about postpartum.
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If I could just leave you all with one message,
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is perhaps as doulas and birth workers
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to do some healing around your own postpartum experiences
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because I think for a lot of doulas there's a block
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in working in this space with postpartum women
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because we haven't done our own healing first.
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So go and share those stories,
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go and get the support that you need and do that healing
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and then you can start really stepping into the space
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where you're able to support your mothers
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in the way that they desperately need you.
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Talking with a particular woman,
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to have a sense of the wholeness of...
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MUSIC PLAYS
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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Thank you.