Rosewood Doula

Emily Flynn: Birth and Postpartum Doula, Student Midwife, Well Person Health Consultant soon to be in Santa Cruz, CA. Please visit www.rosewoodconsult.com for doula and health coaching services.

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Why Do Doulas Cost So Much?

Money is always a tricky subject, especially when working within a profession in the "healing arts." For many birth workers, this profession is seen as a "calling" as much as it is a job.

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Contract Writing Workshop for Birth Doulas

Being a doula means not only taking on an exciting and caring profession, it means starting up your own small business. What many doula trainings often leave out is how to go about writing a solid contract that fits the needs of you and your clients and protects you from the ups and downs of this work. I’ve been combining my background in legal research with my decade of birth work experience in several states and abroad to offer private consultations and workshops on contract writing to doulas and midwives for the past two years. I start with the basics and bare bones of making a contract to demystify the process then branch out into role playing and Q&A style workshopping so that the attendees get to hear what’s relevant to their specific community. Some covered topics include : Cancellation vs termination Scope of Practice basics Setting rates and taking payments Writing different contracts for different services Branding and consistency across printed and web material Wording liability protection Doula-to-Doula contracts HIPPA basics, intake forms, and note taking protections Copyright basics and web presence Workshops are divided up between Birth Doulas (early class) and Postpartum Doulas (evening class), though you are welcome to attend whichever session works best in your schedule. Early session is best also for birth photographers, yoga instructors, placenta encapsulators, lactation educators, and herbalists and the Late session might be most applicable to nannies, traveling doulas, midwives, and nutritionists. Taught at the beautiful office of Birthday Presence in Park Slope Brooklyn, I'm bringing this workshop back to the place where I was trained as a doula ten years ago, and just some subway stops away from where I used to do legal research at a UN affiliated non-profit! Come learn from a doula who understands the ins-and-outs of this profession, no matter where you are on your birth worker journey -- just starting, trying to start a collective, or needing some fine tuning twenty years into this calling.

New Contract Writing Workshops for Doulas coming to Brooklyn April 26th. 

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Pregnancy Challenge Week #2 -- Save for a Doula

I’m starting a series of challenges to expectant parents to encourage them to take small steps toward better care, more informed decision making, and a smoother transition into parenthood. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting on action item in this vein, with some information for why and some

HOW TO HIRE A DOULA FOR BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM!

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Have you recently decided to go off hormonal birth control or are considering doing so? Wanting some guidance and support through this process? Want to know more about your options for hormonal rebalancing and non-hormonal birth control options? Thinking of ending hormonal birth control to start

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I got the chance to be a part of a truly beautiful, peaceful, powerful, well supported, safe, mother-and-baby centered home birth attended by two incredible midwives yesterday. This little one came almost exactly 9 years after I attended my first birth (also at home) and felt like a wonderful full c

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It’s not just for fertility and pregnancy. Reproductive health care consulting covers the range of needs around hormonal, sexual, and general health and well being for all people - regardless of their plans for having children now or in the future. Every * Body could use some non-judgemental, indivi

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Make a Green Baby Shower Gift Basket for about $100

Okay okay okay, I have to admit it -- I’m the baby shower buzz kill. I’m just frankly no fun when it comes to baby gifts. I have my reasons though, so hear me out. I’ve been working in childcare for almost 15 years, 10 of which as a birth and postpartum doula and parent educator. I am by nature a

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Call Your Girlfriend -- I'm Doing Virtual Consults!

Here to tell you about my phone and video consultation services! Okay okay okay, truth be told, I HATE talking on the phone. I don’t even like FaceTime chats except to see my baby nephew so this has been a stretch for me. BUT I loving it.

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Plastic Free Breast Feeding

I’m on a plastic-free kick lately. Wanting to share so much more with the folks I work with, both expectant families and folks I see about general health care concerns.

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Plastic Free Periods

Hey friends, here again to complain about P L A S T I C. I’m deep into some research on the plastic - hormone connection so I can be better informed for my clients on this topic. The evidence is compelling, long standing, and clear : Plastics contribute to our changing hormonal landscape for the

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Pregnancy Challenge Week #1 -- Choosing a care provider

I’m starting a series of challenges to expectant parents to encourage them to take small steps toward better care, more informed decision making, and a smoother transition into parenthood. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting on action item in this vein, with some information for why and some

I challenge all #pregnant folks to spend 8 hours of their ENTIRE pregnancy interviewing at least 4 providers to find the absolute best fit for them. 

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Have you recently decided to go off hormonal birth control or are considering doing so? Wanting some guidance and support through this process? Want to know more about your options for hormonal rebalancing and non-hormonal birth control options? Thinking of ending hormonal birth control to start

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How a Postpartum Preparation Consultation Can Save You Tons

I’ve been a birth and postpartum doula for almost a decade. In that time (I’m going to sound like a grandma here), I’ve seen an enormous spike in the amount of unnecessary junk parents are told that they “can’t live without” once baby arrives. Oh, and of course you need a 5x week night nurse, right?

ps- I offer these consultations online, too! 

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Childbirth Preparation by Rachel Yellin

Using hypnosis, relaxation, breathing, the power of your mind, and the connection with your baby to get into your instinctual and gentle birthing body.

PREPARING AND PRACTICING FOR BIRTH Rachel Yellin is the founder of Yes To Birth! Rachel teaches comprehensive childbirth education and birth techniques classes in San Francisco and LIVE online. She also created the Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond Audio Relaxation Program. I highly recommend you take her classes and use her audio program if you want to feel more confident, prepared, and relaxed for birth. 

Click here to learn more about her classes (link to https://rachelyellin.com/childbirth-classes/) and her audio relaxation program (link to https://rachelyellin.com/pregnancy-relaxation-meditation-program/). 

To purchase her audio program only, use this link (you need to grab your personal affiliate link from your affiliate area on my website or just link to the audio program page) and enter my name EMILY FLYNN to receive 20% off.

To register for her childbirth classes, use the promotion code “25BUCKSOFF” to receive a $25 discount and list “EMILY FLYNN” as the referral source. Her audio program is included in the price of the childbirth classes, so only buy the audios if you can’t take her classes. 

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New monitors, marketed by startups such as Owlet and Sproutling, are sold as consumer devices and not medical devices. This distinction means they don't have to go through testing to prove that they really keep babies safe. And studies of at-home monitoring in the 1980s and 1990s found no evidence that tracking a baby's pulse or breathing could prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), which is the sudden, unexplained death of an infant, usually during sleep.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/think-the-latest-baby-monitors-are-a-good-idea-think-again-experts-say/

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When given a choice of Hospital A (35% c-section rate, 10 miles from home) vs. Hospital B (15% c-section rate, 30 miles from home), 40% chose Hospital A. Younger women and first time mothers are less likely to think that the hospital they select will impact their own chances of c-section (13% vs. 31% for 18-22 years old vs >35 years old, 16% vs. 22% for first time mothers vs multiparous mothers, P=0.01).

The Gap Between How Mothers’ Choose Their Providers and How We Measure Quality

Read more at https://academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealth/2016arm/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/10356

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Childhood is more than merely a springboard to adulthood.

This applies to early infancy as well! 

I find myself really working on ways to help families resist the urge to massively overstimulate their newborns for the sake of “development” instead of just being present and calm. Boredom is not a curse or destructive to learning, in fact, it might actually help.