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Doula Circle Lending Library

If you would like to contribute items to our lending library or if you would like to borrow one of the items listed below, please email jenheystek@sbcglobal.net.

  • 2007 DONA International Conference CD
    When Pain Becomes Suffering in Labor by Penny Simkin
  • 2007 DONA International Conference CD
    Good Grief: Caring for Yourself After a Client's Loss by Ann Grauer
  • Working Women in Labor DVD
    Created by doula trainer Felicia Roche (www.feliciaroche.com)

  • 2003 DONA International Conference Audio Tape
    Safe & Effective Maternity Care: Maternity Center Association's Maternity Wise Program and Results of a New Cochrane Review of Effects of Continuous Labor Support by Carol Sakala
  • 2003 DONA International Conference Audio Tape
    The Selling of the Cesarean Section: Madison Avenue Comes to Medicine by Mayri Sagady

Doula Links

Meetings

  • Meetings:
    The Doula Circle meets four times per month in various locations. All meetings are open to doulas who work in the East Bay.
  • Berkeley Meeting:
    Second Friday of every month, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. Meeting is held at 1677 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.
  • Postpartum Doula Group
    Third Tuesday of each month, 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Meeting is held at 1677 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley.
  • Hayward Meeting
    Fourth Monday of every month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm at the home of Sylvia Boyd in Hayward.
  • Mt. Diablo Doula Community
    Meets the first Wednesday of each month from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at The Nurture Center (3399 Mt. Diablo Blvd) in Lafayette.

Recent Speakers and Films

  • June 2008
    Janaki Costello, IBCLC
  • March 2008
    Baby-Led Breastfeeding DVD
  • February 2008
    Naturopath Hasso Wittboldt-Mueller spoke about the use of essential oils during pregnancy and labor
  • December 2007
    It's My Body, My Baby, My Birth - A new film by San Francisco Midwife Maria Iorillo
  • September 2007
    Network Spinal Analysis practitioners Jane Arzt and Gregg Diamond from the Vitality Center in Emeryville.