Your Guide to a Healthy Birth Experience

Nutured Birth Ottawa

Jul 95 min read

4 P's of Labor and Birth: Power, Passage, Passenger and Psyche

In this blog post Ottawa Doula, Julia Davie, explains each of these factors in detail and discusses how optimizing the physiological express

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Jun 28, 20232 min read

Need to make an informed decision during pregnancy or birth? Use your BRAIN!

For some, birth is transformational and empowering. For others, birth is a means to an end. Either way, making informed decisions during...

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May 18, 20233 min read

The benefits of using a TENS Machine for Labour

Have you heard of TENS machines? In recent years, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) machines have become increasingly...

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Mar 6, 20233 min read

10 Important questions to ask a birth doula during your interview!

"What to ask a doula during the interview," "questions to ask your doula during your interview," and "questions to ask your prospective...

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Jan 16, 20234 min read

The Benefits of Skin to Skin

As practicing birth doulas in Ottawa, talking up the benefits of postpartum skin to skin contact between parents and the newborn is one...

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Sep 21, 20222 min read

What is the difference between a birth doula and a midwife?

One of the questions I am asked most frequently when people find out I am a birth doula is “what is the difference between a doula and a...

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Jul 20, 20223 min read

The almighty cervix!

I never thought I would be writing a post about the cervix, and yet here we are! Why devote an entire blog post to a single body part?...

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May 25, 20222 min read

Ask an Ottawa birth doula – What is delayed cord clamping?

Delayed cord clamping is a practice of waiting a period of time, usually between 2 and 5 minutes, before clamping and cutting the baby's...