Selects: The Deal With Doulas
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What is the focus of this podcast episode?
So what's the deal with doulas, everybody? That's my question to you on this wonderful Saturday morning. This one goes back to December 12th, 2017. Doulas do great work. They're wonderful people, and they bring babies into the world. So I hope you enjoy The Deal with Doulas.
Who are Josh and Chuck?
Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio.
Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and there's Jerry over there. And this is Stuff You Should Know, the podcast. Childbirth edition. Yeah, we are traipsing into more territory. What does that mean? I don't know. I mean, we've done two on, you know, feeding babies. Yeah. Done female puberty. Yeah. This will get into childbirth a little bit. So, yeah, we're not afraid. I don't care.
Yeah.
I guess is what I'm trying to say. You can be a male doula. You can, although this is the only article I ran across that in. Did you find anything about that anywhere else? No, I mean, it happens. It's just super rare.
It happens. I mean, we'll go ahead and spoil it. Generally, doulas are, well, let's just get into this. Generally, doulas are women who have already had a baby.
Yes.
Not even just women, but women who have had a baby. So they can really know how to help another lady have a baby.
What is a doula and what do they do?
Yeah, yeah. And this is actually, so this is an ancient thing that's kind of come back around full circle. And even the name doula is a Greek term used way back in the classical Greek days. when a woman giving birth would have female servants attending to her during birth, helping her with it, probably feeding her some grapes, waving palm fronds on her, that kind of thing. So doula means female servant or female slave, depending on who you're talking about. And after, you know, ancient Greece fell, Rome and the Roman Empire fell, and all of civilization took this weird course, throughout it all, women were helped by other women while they were giving birth. Basically up until about the first third, first half of the 20th century in the West, where
hospitals entered and all of a sudden it was just the mom giving birth surrounded by a bunch of nurses and doctors is that true yeah because i could see scenarios where there were uh women in the birth room helping along I think once you started to get into hospitals and the physicians in the hospital starting asserting their authority more and more, especially through drugs, like I saw that when hospitals kind of took over the birthing process or took responsibility for it from the family and from midwives and moved it into the hospital, they used to administer a lot of sedatives. as part of the birthing process, as part of labor. You could understand why they would, but then there were all sorts of complications from it, problems from it. So they stopped giving sedatives as much. And about that time, women who were giving birth Started to like kind of come out of it and look around and say whoa.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the focus of this podcast episode?
1:04–1:27
2
Who are Josh and Chuck?
1:27–2:42
3
What is a doula and what do they do?
2:42–5:59
4
How did doulas become popular in modern times?
5:59–8:03
5
What role do doulas play during childbirth?
8:03–11:40
6
How do doulas interact with the medical community?
11:40–14:45
7
Are doulas trained to perform medical procedures?
14:45–19:46
8
What should you expect when working with a doula?
19:46–42:19
Speakers
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