Your Mom must be a doula if...

Mars

August 19, 2015

When your 13 year old son stops the biology class, in his all male school and tells the teacher that ‘No sir, birth doesn’t work like that’, before proceeding to take them all the way through the golden hour and breastfeeding.

Christine Santos

July 22, 2015

Mom’s phone goes off and based on the ringtone you ask, “Is she having her baby now?”

You know how to organize and file contracts before you’re old enough to legally work.

When you hear mom talking to a client about prodromal labor and Braxton Hicks contractions, you ask if the mom has had enough water.

With a team of fourteen birth professionals, I think all of our kids know way more about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum than your average elementary kids.

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Becca

July 21, 2015

My daughter (4 at the time) was carrying triplets (babydolls under her shirt). We recently had a momma labor at our home so she could be closer to the hospital, so my daughter would make me pause our conversation every 30 seconds or so she could work through her pretend contraction (mimicking the recent momma). Then she pulled triplet A and B out from under her shirt unceremoniously. When she reached for baby C and grabbed a foot her face went sullen. “Oh no mommy! It’s breach! I think we gotta do a version!”

Ami Shaffer

July 21, 2015

My 8yo randomly comes up behind people and grabs their hips happily announcing, “double hip squeeze!” He has also given birth several times via vaginal birth and c-section lol ?

Paige Sommers

July 21, 2015

When your 1 and 2 year old have a difficult poop, they use different labor positions like squatting or leaning on a big ball.

Tiffany

July 21, 2015

They can YouTube birth videos like it’s their job…

Ivette

September 23, 2014

My daughter said “MOM!!!… not everything is about a vagina” I said “In my world it is!”

Jenn H

May 27, 2014

My 5 year old was holding his belly and says “hmmm, I either have a tummy ache OR I am having a baby!”

christina Carino-Forrest

January 31, 2014

My 6 year old is asked “Do you want to be a Doctor and deliver babies when you go up”
His response, “No, that’s silly Grandma, Mama’s deliver their babies not Doctors”
Show and tell, my 3 yr old brings in my birth eduction Mommy doll that actually has a baby that comes out, a placenta and all. Little snaps on the moms breasts and the babies mouth so baby can eat… well I got an earful from some offended parents….

Naomi

January 30, 2014

When you are 3 and your momma uses your post glass of milk pot belly as practice for belly painting. Seriously, I think I messed him up for awhile. He was convinced he was due any day.

Maritza

January 23, 2014

When u hear your 5 year old tell her cousin:" that’s not how babies come out! Who told you that?!"

Sheridan

December 31, 2013

My boys think I am potentially a Spy posing as a doula!

Melissa George

December 30, 2013

Your 3yr old leans over the couch and says “mom catch my baby, her head is out.” Too many YouTube birth videos. My 5yr old has also informed me that he wants to be a doctor that catches babies.

Suzanne DeSelms

December 29, 2013

My kids love to help put the empty capsules in the machine when I’m doing a placenta. They are terrific workers :-)

Jody

December 29, 2013

My, at the time, 3 1/2 year old son was playing in the other room while I talked with a doula client experiencing prodromal labor over the phone. I was offering suggestions for fetal positioning and maternal comfort, when my son screams from the next room, “And take a bath!!” What can I say, he was right! Ha ha!

Joyce

December 29, 2013

Have a niece that is a doula, am very proud of her and her daughter does know where babies come from but isn’t that normal!!

Tammy Laforest

December 29, 2013

Lol. Comment win. I have to go teach my children a new game.

Whitney Hempsey

December 28, 2013

Add to that “your frequently play ‘rock, paper, scissors, placenta’ (placenta always wins)”