Dear friends and colleagues the title of this post is not a joke. I feel the need to try to share some information on what is happening in my country, Spain regarding doulas. I have been away from any activism lately and all of the sudden my inbox was getting full with women who asked for my support and the reason was that the College of Nurses in Spain (who also represents midwives as they do not have their own) has published after three years a report called 'Informe Doulas' (Doula Report) and in it they warn about the risk to the health of mothers and babies that doulas can be. Using an extremely sensationalist and biassed manner in a report that lacks any statistics, bibliography or evidence, they go on to suggests serious things such as: - Obstetric violence is what doulas use to keep mothers from gong to Birth in a hospital - Doulas split families preventing fathers to take part in births - Doulas induce women to cannibalism by making them eat their placent...
La feminista que hablaba de partos. La madre que hablaba de feminismo. La espectadora madre y feminista.