Q: What is the first intervention a laboring person encounters when they walk into the hospital?
A: Being asked to get into bed.
Position changes ARE an intervention. As doulas, we need to really know this and be careful and reserved when considering a position suggestion. We know all labors are different. We know all laboring people need different things. So why are we fixated on sending people through the same series of positions to "fix" what might not even need fixing?
You will leave this training:
- respecting the historical and cultural significance of labor positioning and its innate purpose
- feeling confident in your ability to identify a malposition early in a labor
- with refreshed knowledge of key positions and how they work
- ready to look at the individual labor in front of you and craft a series of positions specific to that labor with consent and respect
Kate Dewey has co-taught a variation of this training for the last 2 years at various hospitals and labor nurse organizations across Washington and Oregon and she's excited to bring it to doulas in Seattle.
A: Being asked to get into bed.
Position changes ARE an intervention. As doulas, we need to really know this and be careful and reserved when considering a position suggestion. We know all labors are different. We know all laboring people need different things. So why are we fixated on sending people through the same series of positions to "fix" what might not even need fixing?
You will leave this training:
- respecting the historical and cultural significance of labor positioning and its innate purpose
- feeling confident in your ability to identify a malposition early in a labor
- with refreshed knowledge of key positions and how they work
- ready to look at the individual labor in front of you and craft a series of positions specific to that labor with consent and respect
Kate Dewey has co-taught a variation of this training for the last 2 years at various hospitals and labor nurse organizations across Washington and Oregon and she's excited to bring it to doulas in Seattle.
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