Hiring a Birth Doula Makes You a Pregnant #BossBabe: Here's Why
Being the pregnant person in the office sometimes comes with some negative PR for your personal brand. Team members expect you to be flakey, citing “morning sickness” or ultrasound appointments as excuses. Bosses worry that you’ve got one foot out the door and you won’t be coming back. And clients stress that you’ll be replaced by someone who just can’t meet their needs as well as you did.
Being pregnant also brings with it a serious list of priorities and “must dos” in order to be adequately prepared for baby’s impending arrival. How is a career-focused woman supposed to balance her own wellness, the health of her baby, her family’s needs, and her professional life? It seems like at least one area is doomed to suffer.
One simple step can revolutionize your experience, allowing you to be prepared for labor, birth, and parenthood, while still being a high-performing professional right up until your birth day.
Hiring a doula makes you a #BossBabe. Here’s how:
1. A doula takes care of your research. Consider the alternatives: If you don’t hire a doula, perhaps you leave your 7:00 gestational diabetes test (scheduled bright and early to ensure you still make it to work on time!) stressing about failing. And then fear and worry overtake your mind for the rest of the day, clouding your thought process and sending you straight to Dr. Google, where you find horrible anecdotes and misinformation about the realities of gestational diabetes and what it means to your pregnancy, your baby, and the rest of your life! Or…you DO hire a doula. You leave that appointment still with a hint of worry, but you text your doula, she reassures you while you wait for your results, and she quickly emails you pages of evidence-based facts to ease your mind, leaving you free to be focused on key business tasks and client interactions for the remainder of your work day.
2. A doula removes the stress from birth preparations. Once your doula provides you with a thorough hospital packing checklist, postpartum essentials tip sheet, and perinatal resource guide, that doesn’t leave much on your plate besides actually gathering your items (hello, Amazon Prime!) and throwing them in your duffel bag! And I’ve been told my lists are so thorough and simple, husbands can even follow them…hint hint! Look at that! Your constant post-it party of “stuff to remember!” has been completely eliminated!
3. A doula provides resources for your physical wellbeing. Feeling uncomfortable in your office chair all day? Swollen feet throbbing under the board room table? Nausea that has you muting conference calls while you reach for a bucket? While your doula can’t make those instantly disappear (sorry, I’m not a magician!), she can direct you to tried and tested perinatal resources who can help. Her toolkit includes pelvic floor physiotherapists, acupunturists and massage therapists, as well as mental health professionals and prenatal fitness gurus. That means all that’s left for you to do is book an appointment and feel better soon!
Now that know how to become the glowy, productive, pregnant workplace unicorn that you were born to be, go ahead and hire that doula! In “other ways your doula makes life magical and easy,” you can book online RIGHT NOW for a free, no obligation meet + greet! It takes just two minutes to confirm our coffee date, leaving you the rest of the afternoon to be the biz boss everyone knows and loves. ;)