Episode 1: What Doulas Know
- What Doulas Knows
- Sep 11, 2019
- 2 min read
Everybody needs a doula.
Going through life is so much easier with a companion who is there for you unconditionally. A doula is a companion, an educator, an advocate, a cheerleader, and so much more. In Episode 1, Carolyn and her guest, April Kline, discuss a doula's role in the process of labor and delivery.
“A doula who is practicing in her integrity understands that it's not about her. I feel that my job as a doula is to look for every single possible way to bring that birthing individual and their closest people even closer.”
About Our Guest
April Kline is a Certified Professional Midwife with a Masters in Midwifery. She is also certified in prenatal massage, newborn and infant massage and will soon complete her certification to be a Lactation Consultant. April graduated from the Healing Hands Institute in New Jersey in 2001. She is certified through the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork, is a second-degree Craniosacral bodyworker with the Upledger Institute, and is also a Reiki Master and teacher. She has studied Shiatsu at the Ohashi Institute, and has also studied Somatoemotional Release, birth trauma resolution, Therapeutic Touch, Myofascial Release and Reflexology.
April is a born educator, teaching at the Midwives College of Utah in both the undergrad and graduate departments for ten years with a specialty in nutrition and mother-baby bonding and also walking people through NOURISH, a 28-day reset she developed that helps people balance their hormones, heal their guts, remove brain fog, reduce systemic inflammation, and achieve their ideal weight while regaining energy and vitality.
April is also the founder and creator of the Birth With Spirit Doula Certification training program that promotes grounded, whole-person pregnancy, birth and postpartum support.
Love this! The best births I have attended is when the parents bond grows during the birth process. A doula is there for support, to support the couple and their wishes. This podcast nailed it! Thanks ladies for sharing.