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Our Staff
Our postpartum doulas are carefully screened, selected and trained as employees of MamaDoula. Requirements for our staff members include:
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Certification as a Postpartum Doula
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Experience with and demonstrated competency in women's health, parenting, breastfeeding, and newborn issues
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Passion for helping new moms
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Childcare experience and postpartum experience
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Four references and complete Vermont background check
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Participation in continuing education and staff events
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Membership in Doulas of North America
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Infant CPR certification
Our doulas receive evidence-based continuing education each month from experts in the field on topics that include:
- Coping skills for new moms,
- Breastfeeding basics,
- Local resources for families,
- Birth art,
- SIDS prevention,
- Updates on co-sleeping,
- Shaken Baby Syndrome,
- Soothing colic,
- Postpartum mood changes,
- Physiological changes after birth
- Postpartum depression
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"In cultures around the world, this six week state of postpartum is honored and revered, and the mother's care is assured. Worldwide, it is traditional that the new mother's priority is to rest, establish breastfeeding, and bond with her baby. She is relieved of all other household responsibilities. In Holland, mothers receive live-in help for 8-10 days. In India, the mother is pampered for 21 days and her role as an exalted one is honored. Swedish mothers are given a year of maternity leave at full pay." |
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