Supporting New Moms through Postpartum Doulas with Mandy Major

The Messy Intersection

Mandy Major joins us on this episode of The Messy Intersection to discuss her own experience of becoming a mother and how it led her to explore how we can better support birth people through postpartum doulas.

Mandy shares the difference between a postpartum doula and a birth doula and shares information on her company, Major Care Doulas, and the innovations they are using to deliver the care new mothers desperately need in the critical postpartum period.

We discuss:

• Mandy's own birth and postpartum story and how it inspired a career change for her
• Diana's birth stories and how postpartum doulas would have made a world of difference for her, had only she known about them.
• The difference between a BIRTH doula and a POSTPARTUM doula.
• The various roles that postpartum doulas can play depending on the needs of the birth person and the personality and strengths of the doula.
• How postpartum doulas are NOT just baby expert know-it-alls. They're there to support the birth person with expertise AND empathy.
• The current state of the postpartum period in the United States and how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the situation.
• The latest about Mandy's company, Major Care Doulas and how they are supporting women with virtual postpartum doula care and and brand new free app called My Fourth (launching January 24th of 2021).

Get in touch with Mandy:

• Major Care Doulas website: https://thatismajor.com/
• Free app: My Fourth: https://thatismajor.com/my-fourth
• https://www.instagram.com/majorcaredoulas/
• https://www.facebook.com/majorcaredoulas/
• [e-mail]

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