Nurturing Beginnings: MotherLove's Guide to Postpartum Home Care for Doulas and Outreach Workers.

Jane Arnold, CNM, MSN, co-author of Nurturing Beginnings. Join Debra and Jane as they take you through their journey and into your own as you explore what it means to be "in service of a postpartum woman and her family."

By Debra Pascali-Bonaro, CD (DONA), LCCE, And Jane Arnold, CNM, MSN, with Marcia Ringel
Nurturing Beginnings is the first comprehensive postpartum training manual. Join Debra and Jane as they take you through their journey and into your own as you explore what it means to be "in service of a postpartum woman and her family."
Nurturing Beginnings contains 12 modules: (These modules correspond with our 12-module on-line course but will be of value with any doula training.)

• The role of the doula
• Home visiting
• Providing care with caution: Protecting health and safety in the home and car
• Honoring postpartum women and teaching self-care
• Easing postpartum adjustment
• Appreciating your client's cultural diversity
• Supporting the breastfeeding mother
• Newborn basics: Appearance, behavior, and care
• Offering support to partners and siblings
• Unexpected outcomes: Caring for the family at a time of loss
• Nurturing yourself
• Pursuing professional development and building your practice



Review of Nurturing Beginnings from Barbara Hotelling BSN, LCCE, FACCE, CD(DONA) Chair, Coalition For Improving Maternity Services

"Most doula training programs recognize the advantages of seeking experiences speakers to provide information on the wide variety of topics which must be covered. No one person could possibly provide the best information on all subjects. The authors have followed that precedent. Not only do internationally recognized birth experts Salt, Romeo, Kennell, Klaus, Williams and Reyes offer valuable knowledge, but others as well. Penny Simkin organizes postpartum teaching suggestions in a delightful way in her "Twelve F's of Postpartum" and William Sears writes on the "Ten Commandments for the Postpartum Mother". The book is speckled with "A Doula Speaks".... experiences of seasoned doulas. I found these tremendously helpful in speaking to the difficulties of doula work as well as the solutions doulas have found useful. And if you read Nurturing Beginnings too fast, you will miss the heartwarming messages of Maureen Cannon's poetry.... also spread throughout the book to give us a gentle hug on our way to becoming doulas."

"This outreach to postpartum doulas is a long overdue and a blessed addition to the knowledge of doula care and the needs of new families. Thanks to all the authors for making postpartum doula care more available to women in our culture. I look forward to the Internet connection which will provide doulas with even more enrichment in their work."

To order a copy of Nurturing Beginnings online, click here.
Or call Midwifery Today at 1-800-743-0974.

For bulk orders, 10 or more copies of Nurturing Beginnings as a trainer or for catalog sales contact:
Debra Pascali-Bonaro at motherlove.doula@prodigy.net
Phone: (201) 358-2703