by Sophie Messager
Updated 24/03/20 in line with new RCOG guidelines If you are pregnant right now, I can imagine that the unpredictability of the pandemic situation might make you feel anxious. I am writing this to try and help allay fears, as well as suggest of list of ways you can...
by Sophie Messager
If you follow my blog you might have felt surprised that I haven’t posted anything since last July, when I typically wrote a monthly or twice monthly post before. This is because, early in the summer, I experienced a personal and professional crisis of...
by Sophie Messager
I wrote a blog about what it means to me to be a member of Doula UK On being an independent doula and a proud member of Doula...
by Sophie Messager
This morning, a antenatal teacher friend shared the local hospital’s leaflet about the timeline of physical recovery after a cesarean. It’s been a while since something in the birth world has triggered me as much as this leaflet did. The leaflet, whilst...
by Sophie Messager
During the first year I worked as a doula, I suffered massively burnout, and I had t learn to develop a new way to look after myself. One of the things I do, is try to always have some kind of bodywork treatment after each birth I support. I do this because supporting...
by Sophie Messager
Please visit our sister website to read Dr Attila Jonas’s account of closing the bones Closing the bones : a male doula’s... 
