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[abilouise]

I got my first doula client! I mean the first person who read my listing and called me up and decided that the fact that I have no birth experience is actually ok. Wahoo! I called her up ready to do the whole "let me refer you to someone experienced with VBAC/ with more experience/etc" spiel and found myself instead sort of sputtering that yes I was available and we should set up an initial meeting and all that. I'm a bit excited and totally scared, but I have this problem with transitions and changes that while they are totally fascinating and I crave them, they also make me at least temporarily freeze, but I have learned that this happens to me no matter how prepared I am to do something and so the fact that I am scared is not actually good information about how prepared I am or how well I will do something. Anyway, this makes me happy. Several other things are making me really happy right now, some of them are obvious, like I just got back from a long weekend at Acadia and taught Jake how to cross-country ski and he likes it now and I'm still in a post-exercise high, some of them silly things like my new hands-free headset for my phone, some of them are symbolic, like the way that I negotiated returning a business-thing that I wasn't happy with on the phone without either being an asshole or losing, and some of them are small but vital, like getting really good sleep last night.

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[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

Yay! Grats for moving down the path you've chosen!

That reminds me, someone on a mailing list I'm on was looking for a doula to talk to his SO about how one goes about becoming a doula. I told him I'd give you his contact info, so I really ought to do that. Look for it in your inbox.

[abilouise.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This path has been moving more slowly than I'd like since I took the training because most everybody wants a doula with experience and most all doulas with experience get it by either giving birth themselves (something I'm not up for right now, thanks) or attending the birth of someone they know personally (none of you are popping out babies so this doesn't work for me) and I've been feeling frustrated, figuring out how to get my foot in the door. Note that I also think that if *I* was the pregnant women, I'd want someone with birth experience probably too. The client noted that since I'm an MT, I'm probably comfortable touching people (this is very true) and since I've had the training, I should know how not to do anything Bad (I believe this is also true) and I'm glad that she is way more sensible and chill than I would probably be.