Emotional Intelligence for the Doula By understanding your emotions, you can move adeptly through your current challenges and prevent future ones. Source: How Emotional Intelligence Can Boost Your Career — And Save Your Life The above statement is why we teach Emotional Intelligence here at International Doula Institute to all of our new doulas. “Decades […]

Parent Magazines’ Holly Pevzner interviews Aliza Bancoff, founder of International Doula Institute about postpartum doulas: “There once was a village. Then there was just you and your partner. But today, more and more new moms are discovering a somewhere-in-between solution that involves hiring a care specialist for the baby (and new mom) to help out […]

  Certified doulas trained through International Doula Institute offer non-judgmental support. We know the struggles that moms go through. In fact,  most of us are also moms. So we know all about the sanctimommies first hand.  Many of us became doulas because we experienced so much judgement in the early days. From our mother, from […]

Last month the ACOG announced it’s partnership with Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) join their efforts to help lower the maternal mortality rates in the US. According to the article, “the U.S. was one of eight countries where maternal death rates worsened between 2003 and 2013”.   The organization AIM is accepting applications […]