toRaise Questions Doula Podcast
The toRaise Questions podcast offers thoughtful, unfiltered conversations for doulas and birth workers who want to deepen their knowledge, elevate their practice, and uphold the integrity of birth work.
Each episode features insights from experienced professionals in the field, helping you grow with intention and purpose.
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2017
Episode 63 - How to Talk to Your Clients Prenatally About Their Construct of Birth Based on Familial & Cultural Stories
Thérèse and Melanie talk about the importance of speaking with your client, both the pregnant woman and her partner about what they have been told about their birth, what their perspect…
Episode 62 - Case Study: A Client with 3 Previous Cesareans Attempts a Vaginal Delivery
Thérèse and Melanie welcome Sarah from Texas to discuss a client who has had 2 cesareans after two labors, a planned cesarean and now is attempting a VBAC.
ToLabor is your go-to resource…
Episode 61 - How to Talk to Your Clients About Who Do They Include in Their Birth Space
Thérèse and Melanie talk about how to discuss and help sort out who, if anyone their client wants to invite to their birth. If someone is invited, what conversations can take place to h…
Episode 60 - Talking to Your Clients About Their Plans in Regard to Their Children Attending the Birth
Thérèse and Melanie discuss whether it is appropiate for children to attend a birth. If a parent wants a child to participate, how do they best prepare that child so the birth will be t…
Episode 59 - What is it Like, What Does it Take to be the Partner, Husband, WIfe of a Doula?
Thérèse and Melanie invite two partners/husbands into the studio to discuss the role of supporting an active doula. What does it take? What are the downsides of this role? What have the…
Episode 58 - How to Navigate/Negotiate Your Personal Life with Your Professional Life as a Doula
Thérèse and Melanie discuss a whether having a child is a prequisite to being a doula? What if you become pregnant , should you continue offering services while pregnant and if so, when…
Episode 57 - Pelvic Floor Health, A Conversation with Lynn Shulte-Leech, Physical Therapist and Energetic Bodyworker
Thérèse and Melanie talk to physical therapist Lynn Shulte-Leech about how to help women understand the importance of knowing the state of their pelvic floor muscles in order for them t…
Episode 56 - How To Work With A Single Parent
Thérèse and Melanie discuss a listener's question who is working with a client where there is no partner involved. Her mother will be there for the delivery and in the interview the cli…
Episode 55 - Birth Affirmations, A Conversation with Susan Singer
Thérèse and Sarah talk to artist and author Susan Singer about her book, Birth Affirmations and what a powerful and useful tool affirmations and visualizations can have on a person's pr…
Episode 54 - How to Design Your Website Home Page
Sarah Juliusson from www.thewebsitedoula.com joins Thérèse and Sarah in discussing how important the homepage of your website is for your birth businesses and the e-book she has created…
Episode 53 - Meeting Your Client for the First Time While They are in Labor
Thérèse and Melanie discuss what a doula would do if she meets a client for the first time in labor (volunteer program, on call doula or L&D nurse/doula). What are the best questions/di…
Episode 52 -Preparing Your Client For The Realities of Birth Setting and Healthcare Provider
Thérèse and Melanie discuss the important topic of how a doula negotiates the conversation with their client about their care provider's reputation both statistically and anecdotally as…
Episode 51 - Case Study: How to Have a "Take Charge" Approach with a Client
Thérèse and Melanie talk with a listener from Idaho, Heather, who is looking for examples of how to help a mom when she is floundering in the intensity of transition. How do you have a…
Episode 50 - Boundary Lines, Back-up and Receiving Emotional Support as a Doula
Thérèse and Melanie talk with two toLabor Certified Professional Doulas about boundary lines with clients, how they support one another for births as well as being one another's doula f…
Episode 49 - What Components Are Vital To Being A Doula?
Thérèse and Melanie answer a question from a listener in Isarel who wonders about the importance of having a mulititude of skils to offer your client or is emotional support the most im…
Episode 48 - How to Support Breastfeeding in the Immediate Recovery Stage Part 2
Thérèse and Melanie discuss what the role of a doula is from the time from the birth of the baby until the baby's first latch.
ToLabor is your go-to resource for doulas, aspiring doulas,…
Episode 47 - How to Support and Prepare Your Clients Prenatally for Breastfeeding Part 1
Thérèse and Melanie focus on the important role a doula plays in helping to create a more realsitic and smoother pathway for their client's breastfeeding experience in the prenatal peri…
Episode 46 - How to Find Clients, Potential Client Interview
Thérèse and Melanie talk about what to do when you are excited to begin the work of being a doula but you areun sure where to find clients and how. They also discuss their thoughts on h…
Episode 45 - American Childbirth: Exposing the Silence
Thérèse and Melanie talk to women's childbirth advocate Cristen Pascucci (Improving Birth and Birth Monopoly) and professional photographer/doula Lindsay Askins (Spot of Serendipity) ar…
Episode 44-Doula Burnout
Thérèse and Sarah welcome Melanie Headley, the new co-host of the podcast, and the three women talk about doula burnout, how to re-energize, and how to know when it's time to walk away…