This third pregnancy caught me off guard. I have to be honest that it began in a place of dismay. It wasn’t that pregnancy and birth weren’t on my mind—I’d just completed my doula training and had been so excited to begin attending births. Knowing I’d have a newborn in a few short months felt like being yanked back into the house again. I knew I’d spend a couple of months being miserably sick, and that my doula-dreams would be limited in the immediate future. Then I had a talk with my husband that lifted my heart—I came to realize that going through my own experience with natural birth would help me be a more effective, more empathetic doula. I would have my own memories and strength to build on instead of just philosophy. I began to see this pregnancy part of the fulfillment of my hope to empower women, not robbing me of those experiences....
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