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10 Crazy Amazing Placenta Facts
So, you’ve spent your pregnancy celebrating the tiny human that you are now single-handedly growing, feeding, sharing closely intimate space with. The big day of birth arrives. You birth your beautiful baby. Then your care provider starts pushing down on your uterus like a bread-dough maker telling you things like “Okay, it looks like your placenta is on it’s way.” Then, suddenly you feel this jelly, blob-like organ come out of your body like you just sneezed something overly large from the wrong part of your body. Not only did you grow a human, you also grew an entire organ to provide for that human and now you’ve just completed the task of expelling it.
That organ is unlike any other organ in your body and it is pretty crazy amazing. We could have listed more than 10 amazing facts about it, but these were our top 10.
10 Questions to Ask When Hiring a Doula
So you've decided to hire a doula?
Next, you'll arrange for a consultation, commonly referred to as “The Interview”. This interview is a great opportunity for you (and your partner!) to not only get to know the services the doula(s) offer(s), but also who the doula is and how well they will work with you through this very special time. As with any interview, it's great to have questions prepared in advance. When it comes to birth, you are your own hiring manager. In a way, you are putting together a team for your big day including partner support, care provider, pediatrician, doulas, etc. Although you can ask anything you need to know, here is a list of 10 questions that might need to be on your list!