Heather McCullough is a passionate birth advocate & educator. As a Midwife, Doula, Evidence Based Birth Instructor, Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner, & Doula Trainer with CAPPA.
If you're an expectant parent thinking about hiring a doula for your pregnancy, here's everything to know about benefits, cost, and more, according to experts.
A doula’s cost varies, from around $300 for a doula-in-training who needs to assist some laboring women before she gets her certification, to around $800 for an experienced doula.If she’s a well-known doula in the community and highly-sought after, expect to pay a little bit more.(...
One parent described the event as “no different than any free egg hunt at a church”—except this one cost $50 per family. Instead of a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors, this event featured crying kids, confused parents, and a nonprofit operating in the dark, literally and figuratively. 👀...
the closing was done secretively and without much notice to the public or even the hospital advisory board. While economics was cited as the reason for the closure, this flies in the face of the information about how the birth center reduced interventions (and cost) for women who delivered ...
With the outrageous rise in maternity care costs, the last thing we need are insurance policies which place the financial burden on the families–particularly when so many women are given interventions they don’t need or want in the hospital. How many women are told the cost of an epidural...