What is a doula?: My Doula Library

What is a doula?: My Doula Library
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My Doula Library

A large part of DONA's international certification process is research. They provide a list full of books as suggested skill-building reading. There are two books that must be read by every potential DONA certified doula candidate and sections where at least one book pertaining to each topic must be chosen, depending on each doula's interests. Following is a list of required reading and the books I have chosen to fulfill my requirement:

The two required books are:
The Doula Book (Klaus, Kennell & Klaus, 242 pages)
The Birth Partner (Penny Simkin, 398 pages)

The book's I have chosen from required reading lists are:
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth (Ina May Gaskin, 348 pages)
Pregnancy, Chilbirth & The Newborn: The Complete Guide (Penny Simkin, 499 pages)
The Breastfeeding Answer Book (La Leche League, 680 pages)

You'll notice that I have included the number of pages in each book. The purpose of that is show that I am aquiring a wealth of knowledge and will look through these books again and again. Some of them will become my resource guides. The Breastfeeding Answer Book, for example, is bound with heavy duty spiral binding and just begs to be used for years to come.

It was difficult to choose only one from each category so when I have read and summarized (also required) each of these I will go on to read more!

I also got The Business of Being Born today! I am so excited to share that with mammas who wish to watch it!

Vancouver Area Resources!

I took a little drive down to Cascadia Women's Clinic today and came home with quite a few contacts as far as women's resources go! I will be sure to post them tomorrow as there might be a couple dozen. See postings tomorrow!...