"I can't think of a kinder gift to give to anyone, including oneself, than a doula and this woman Vicky Yorke in particular. One needs tact, empathy galore, and a richness of knowledge to help moms through that most wonderful and sometimes most terrifying period of the first few weeks of matrescence, that time 'when a Woman becomes a Mother.'
I never thought when I invented the concept and the practice of The Doula that I had hit upon one of the most important behavioral periods in a mother (" more...
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