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Active Labor: A Medical Label That Doesn’t Work for Us

As a doula trainer I'm seeing a sharply increasing trend:  Participants arriving at their workshops carrying trauma from having poor, disengaged and highly dissatisfying experiences with their own doulas. While doulas arriving at their workshops with birth trauma is nothing new, birth trauma because of having had a poor experience with their own birth doula is new and alarming.

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