I love this forum! thank you sooo much for your advice... I am a beginning Doula who has witnessed only one birth (besides my own birth). I am looking for someone or some organization who needs Doulas with little experience to help at births. I am trying to discover some place to witness a few births at to have more training that way. Do you know of anyone or organization looking for beginning or volunteer doulas? thanks so much ava

-- ava haney (trickle@ziplip.com), August 05, 2003

Answers

One place you might check is a women's crisis center/shelter, or adoption counseling center. In both places you will be likely to find women desperately in need of support during labor.

-- Heather Duncan (heather@nacnud.com), August 11, 2003.

You should check out http://ca.geocities.com/volunteerdoulas you can list your information as a volunteer doula here and find others in your area who are volunteering and mentoring.

-- Sara Duggan (mommie_care@yahoo.com), September 23, 2003.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, there are a ton of places that could use your help. There are also shadowing programs. Check out dona.org for more links.

-- Rebecca Bearg (badbadbecca@hotmail.com), October 07, 2003.