Tangles, there's nothing I can do to top your week
I'm just going to have to hope for it being average and perhaps even pleasant.

Alt: My cousin's wife is, appparently, trying to become a doula (insofar as you actually need to do anything apart from "call yourself a doula"), and is horrendously preachy on FB about all sorts of things, mostly associated with raising kids. I usually manage to not comment as her heart is more or less in the right place. I finally cracked and slightly lost my rag at her over some shit about disabled access to that paralympics this weekend, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:38, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

What the fuck is a "Doula"?

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:39, Reply)

a stickybeak

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:40, Reply)

basically, this ^

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:41, Reply)

"originating from the Ancient Greek word δούλη meaning female servant or slave"
Edit: damn, that looked awesome when I copied and pasted. δούλη
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:41, Reply)

Man, the Ancient Greeks wrote some l33t codez.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:42, Reply)

I was about to say!

(Poppet some assembly required., Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:43, Reply)

It's some horseshit woo term for, I dunno, birthing coach, or some shit.
It's an old greek term, misapproproiated by the same kind of tools who think that breastfeeding until the age of 8 is normal, healthy behaviour.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:41, Reply)

Someone who attends the birth of a baby to help the mother through the labour. Bit like a team coach I suppose.
Very middle class thing to have a Doula at the birth apparently.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:42, Reply)

She's paying thousands to go on some residential course in it.
Given there are no accepted qualifications in it, no ratified courses, actual qualified medical opinion of it varies from "useless but harmless" to "downright fucking dangerous" and you can just call yourself one, oh, and, yeah, it's all a load of epic shite, I would suggest paying for a course in it is "a little bit Bert"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Non pushy mothers

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:46, Reply)

Mrs Upinblue looked into getting a Doula for the birth of baby tangle
They were on the whole either:
a) mental,
b) hippies,
c) mental hippies.
We did not hire a doula and spent the money on an ipad instead.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:52, Reply)

What particularly irritates me about this whole broad area
is, apparently, it's perfectly acceptable to rail against thousands of years of scientific and medical knowledge and to directly hold a contrary point to qualified medical practitioners becuase you are a woman and therefore "know best"

See also: holding up what mothers in developing countries do as an example of what is healthy, natural and "right". Because, also then, we should introduce random famine, disease and high rates of child mortality into Surrey "baby dance" classes as well. Fucktards.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:56, Reply)

You know only too well that people are idiots, badge.
I sell snake oil to people who tell me that they want something "more natural" than what the doctor has prescribed. Not one of them ever considers that these things are no more natural than the thing they are replacing.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 9:59, Reply)

I know, I know.
I don't understand why the fuck people pick and choose their idiocy, though. All this homeopathic-medicine-consuming fuckspanners don't demand "natural alternatives" to electricity or refuse life-saving surgery because it's not "natural" ... they're lying hypocrites even to themselves, yet it's acceptable to foist that on their young children? Fuck 'em, tangles, it's actually child abuse. Refuse a vaccination for your baby and I would have you put in prison.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 10:08, Reply)

The MMR jab made me a bent spastic :(

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 10:09, Reply)

Correlation does not equate to causation.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 10:10, Reply)

I am still going to ensure my scaremongering story gets out into the overactive press though
becasue people deserve to know the truth
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 10:12, Reply)

It turned me into a newt :(

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 10:12, Reply)

*calls This Morning*

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 20 Aug 2012, 10:13, Reply)