Our History Informs Our Future
By: Angie Rosier When my daughter was nine years old she had a fascination with fish. We learned about and purchased all the components for a fish tank then filled it with guppies, platys, and mollies. She is nearly fifteen now and we still have that fish tank in our home. Toward the beginning of…
Read MoreThe Briana Project
By: Sara Vranes, CPM What is The Briana Project? The Briana Project is a mobile outreach program providing free postpartum care, education, and advocacy for underserved women and mothers in the Salt Lake Valley. We provide in-home and mobile prenatal and postpartum visits and community classes in Salt Lake City. We meet with and assess…
Read MorePostpartum Preparation
Postpartum Preparation By Destiny S. Olsen CD(DONA), PCD(DONA), RYT, TPYT Once your baby arrives you recognize the birthing experience has a big effect on how you transition into parenthood or how you integrate your little one amongst the family at home. Depending on your birth outcome you may be facing more recovery time than…
Read MoreTwenty Years in Birth
One of the UDA’s previous logos: By Andrea Lythgoe I started my career as a birth worker in 1997, when Bill Clinton was president and Mike Leavitt was Utah’s governor. Gas cost about $1.22 a gallon and Titanic was the new blockbuster movie. I was pregnant with my daughter Callie when I taught my first childbirth…
Read MoreSpotlight: 2018 UDA Spring Conference Speakers
The Annual Utah Doula Association conference is fast approaching. During this uplifting and educational event, we will hear from several experts on a variety of topics that will enrich and improve our birth-centric businesses. With many opportunities for continuing education credits, tips and tricks for improving our business skills and networking opportunities galore, the 2018…
Read MoreBirth In African Cultures
By: Marilyn Sorensen This year marks my third year living in Narok, Kenya, Africa. A place that has become the source of many awakenings for me. Including immersing myself back into the wonderful world of birth. Last year at this exact time, I had the opportunity to go to a local hospital with a midwife…
Read MoreIs My Baby Ready for Solids?
Is My Baby Ready For Solids? The golden rule used be introduce baby to enriched white rice cereal and/or Karo syrup (yes Karo syrup) sometimes as early as 2-3 months. Perhaps you have even been told by your pediatrician or mom friend to put a little rice cereal in your baby’s bottle to help them…
Read MoreWhen Love Makes Three
When Love Makes Three by Michelle Holmes As I leaned toward my husband to get a hug my enormous belly made it a completely difficult reach. I joked to my husband, “I’m sorry, I know I promised I wouldn’t let this baby come between us.” That baby, who turned out to be a 10+…
Read MoreNational Cancer Prevention Month
By: Stacie Rupp, CD(DONA) laboryourway.com Stacie has been a birth doula since early 2015 and has recently begun teaching Childbirth Preparation classes through University of Utah Perinatal Education. She loves sharing her excitement about all things birth with expectant couples. She also strives to offer understanding and support to women who have had cancer…
Read MoreOn Birth, Diversity, and “The Last Man on Earth”
It was just after 8 o’clock. We finally got the kids down to sleep after a long, chaotic day, and I decided it was time to unwind with a mindless episode of The Last Man on Earth. Do you know it? In a nutshell, it’s a comedic tale of a rag-tag group of people who…
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