If I had have hired a doula
My first birth would have been more informed

If I had have hired a doula
My 2nd birth would have been at home

If I had hired a doula
My third birth birth… oh wait, I did
I did hire a doula, and a photographer and
My third birth was informed, courageous, supported

I didn’t want to hire a doula for my forth birth,
I invested in myself, my pregnancy, my partner and my freebirth
And it was beautiful

Every experience has had its own learnings, and today as I shared that my last baby was born here in Helensburgh, at home in our living room, the surprise on their face didn’t shock me at all, but it did make me wonder how my other births would have gone… if only I’d known what I know now.

A doula isn’t someone who tells you how to birth or what to do; but you know what, I wish someone had told that I should hire a doula for my first birth; although, if I had, maybe I wouldn’t have become one.