Doulas

"I'm looking for a doula." That is often the phrase that starts the conversation that can become the beginning of a shared experience of one of the most unique and important moments of our lives: motherhood. But when they talk about doulas, what is the first thing that comes to mind? What do we think we can find in that person called "doula"? What should we expect from her? Perhaps we think of the figure of a woman, perhaps we imagine her in childbirth, it may be that we think of her as the bearer of a compendium of natural remedies or an "expert" who will tell us what we have to do or will protect us like a mother of the mother who will give birth... So many things and so diverse are read and heard, that sometimes it is difficult to get to the root of this figure that offers a service that few people really know or understand. And that is not easy to contribute either. Looking for a doula may seem like a "whim", or the desire to have the fashionable figure to have fashionable or ideal motherhood. Because we already have someone who attends maternity, why look for someone else? So that? Are doulas something new or is it just a fad? Are doulas always at births? Do we have a doula to achieve a specific type of childbirth or parenting? Are they really experts in the maternities of other women? Do they have a real relationship with therapies or natural remedies? In short, what is real and what is fiction in what usually reaches us about doulas? Hand in hand with the knowledge and experiences of the doula, Child Educator and graduate in Early Care, Beatriz Fernández, we will discover the realities of doulas in our country and in history. We will travel from the origins and the first historical references of doulas to see their evolution over time and how they have adapted to the reality of motherhood, families and women. We will understand what accompanying really means and why that word seems to be present in more and more services and spaces (and if it is really well used). We will know the legal reality, the ethical limits and the day-to-day life of the doula. And so we will discover how many myths and false beliefs there are in our society regarding doulas and their role in motherhood. Because, surely, the doula is not and does not do most of the things that we believe or have been told. Because the doula does not create or direct maternities, she does not save or protect them. The doula accompanies them in the clearest and deepest sense of the word.