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I have embarked on the process of re-working this website and blog together with fellow doula and activist Rachel Dolan Wickersham, the original ChicagoDoula (at AOL dot com). Please have patience with me/us as the posts are fewer and further between while we develop ChicagoDoula into a resource we are both excited about and think [...]

Speedy Delivery Man

Check out this local story to read a recent example of a time birth just worked. And my apologies in advance for the pun.

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Buyer Beware

The Chicago Tribune printed this story on Tuesday about a local woman whose doctor reportedly denied her pain meds in labor and told her to “Shut up, close your mouth and push.”

He reportedly also berated the hospital staff. I wonder if that is newsspeak for he yelled at a nurse. So not cool to yell [...]