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Importing Midwives and Exporting Babies: Illinois’ Little Secret Gets...

Illinois midwifery and home birth have gotten a lot of national attention lately. In late August, there was a Time Magazine article on the controversies surrounding home birth in the U.S.A. In the...

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Extremely Grateful

This is Amy, writing on Rachel’s behalf. This morning, after I returned from a long birth, she and I had our first chance to speak in person since a fire destroyed her family’s home and killed a family...

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Closer Than Ever

Check out this excellent blog entry on the Home Birth Safety Act from the Amie Newman at RH Reality Check. We hope to call the bill today. Meanwhile there is a mama in labor for me to get to. Wish the...

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Call for Birth Stories from LGBTQ parents

Ever look for a collection of LGBTQ-centered birth stories? Then you may have noticed how hard it is to find one! If you’d like to help remedy this situation: Fabulous Chicago doula, Kristen Ethier, is...

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Safe Transports Save Lives

With the defeat (46-71) of the Home Birth Safety Act at the very end of the last legislative session, the Illinois legislature decided that Certified Professional Midwives in Illinois shall remain...

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Six Months Later

Long, long ago, Amy promised for me that I would post a follow up to her post about the fire that took my family’s home. Today is the six month anniversary of that fire and it’s high time I followed...

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Rest in Peace, Adrienne Rich, Hero of Mine

One of the very first books that ever really affected my outlook on life was Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich. Looking back from where I stand now, as a doula, birth mentor and advocate for those who...

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Bones Has a Baby and Mainstream Media Gets it Right (mostly)

  SPOILER ALERT! If you watch Bones on Fox and either Tivo or get a season’s pass online,     DO NOT READ BELOW unless you want to know all about the birth. Yes the birth. Bones fans (my family...

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A New Advocate for Birth Justice at Chicago Volunteer Doulas

I am delighted to share that today Chicago Volunteer Doulas (CVD) announced that Jeanine Valrie, MPH will take over the position of Program Director for the agency. I am both a Volunteer Doula as well...

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Illinois’ First Birth Center…Finally!?

Check out this excellent Crain’s Chicago Business article about the hoped-for opening of Illinios’ first free-standing birth center.  It offers some interesting inside information on what it took to...

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Skeptical SIL Turned Doula Spokesperson

Here’s a delightful, eloquent, funny post from myrubygirl.com, a mother of three who had never heard of a doula before recently attending her brother and sister-in-law’s second birth. If you’ve had a...

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Radio Interview on Birth Trends and Midwives

ChicagoDoula’s own Rachel Dolan Wikersham (who in addition to being a doula is also a Ceritifed Professional Midwife or CPM) joined local Certified Nurse Midwife, Hillary Keiser today on WBEZ’s Morning...

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Bones Has a Baby and Mainstream Media Gets it Right (mostly)

  SPOILER ALERT! If you watch Bones on Fox and either Tivo or get a season’s pass online,     DO NOT READ BELOW unless you want to know all about the birth. Yes the birth. Bones fans (my family...

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A New Advocate for Birth Justice at Chicago Volunteer Doulas

I am delighted to share that today Chicago Volunteer Doulas (CVD) announced that Jeanine Valrie, MPH will take over the position of Program Director for the agency. I am both a Volunteer Doula as well...

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Illinois’ First Birth Center…Finally!?

Check out this excellent Crain’s Chicago Business article about the hoped-for opening of Illinios’ first free-standing birth center.  It offers some interesting inside information on what it took to...

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Skeptical SIL Turned Doula Spokesperson

Here’s a delightful, eloquent, funny post from myrubygirl.com, a mother of three who had never heard of a doula before recently attending her brother and sister-in-law’s second birth. If you’ve had a...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Radio Interview on Birth Trends and Midwives

ChicagoDoula’s own Rachel Dolan Wikersham (who in addition to being a doula is also a Ceritifed Professional Midwife or CPM) joined local Certified Nurse Midwife, Hillary Keiser today on WBEZ’s Morning...

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New Resource for Pregnant Trans* Parents

H/t to Radical Doula for information about this new website designed to help trans* parents find trans* friendly providers: Trans Birth: Trans Birth is a directory created to connect trans* and gender...

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Give it up on #GivingTuesday for Chicago Volunteer Doulas

And I don’t just mean applause! Will you please join me in making a donation today? Rachel and I aren’t just running businesses and making a living as doulas who happen to live in Chicago, we also take...

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ChicagoDoula Goes to School. And Has a Baby. And Other Things

We’re writing this post to announce some changes at ChicagoDoula.  Amy and I have had a very full five years.  We’ve been gestating people and ideas and certifications.  We’ve been trying to blog here...

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