Dear doulas,
As you can see when I am not on the road teaching women to become DONA approved postpartum doulas. I am on vacation. When most of you read this I will be in Cabo San Lucas for my husband’s 60th birthday.
Who would have guessed that over 16 years has passed since becoming a doula. I met a wonderful group of women when I became a certified childbirth educator, then again as a birth doula. My proudest accomplishment was in 1994 when I, along with some exceptional women, started the first doula group “Beautiful Beginnings” in San Diego. For without the support of Beautiful Beginnings birth and postpartum would be a very different experience for the women in San Diego. In 1998 I started my own company North County Doulas. In 2006 I was an approved DONA postpartum doula trainer. In 2007 I was asked to join the advisory board for our own Postpartum Health Alliance and since 2008 I am teaching postpartum doula workshops all over the country. I am having the time of my life!
What a wonderful 2 years it has been on the road teaching. I have been to over 50 cities around the U.S and Canada. I have met over 200 of the most amazing women and they astounded me with their enthusiasm and dedication to this profession This year I plan on visiting another 25 cities and I invite you all to attend any city I am teaching to share a room and co teach with me
The weather has been a fun topic for this “California girl” who has been waiting to see some “WEATHER” but every time I get to a city that normally gets snow I get heat! “Oh what unusually warm weather we are having” They say or “you should have been here last week we had four feet of snow or high winds or buckets of rain” Yeah, Yeah, I never get to see anything but SUN maybe a little snow on the ground, but never falling. Oh well maybe this year.
I have visited small towns with two to four doulas and large cities where there are over 100 doulas. I love teaching a small group of four. It reminds me that I started my doula career as a group of four. I remind them that even four can change the way women think about their birth and postpartum experience.
I have met grandmothers, granddads and new moms on planes, and trains. They all say the same thing… “What a wonderful job you have!” I smile and say
“Yes, I do have the best job in the world”
In the doula spirit,
Rosemary Mason, CCE,PCD(DONA),CLC
www.northcountydoulas.com FB: Rosemary Mason
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