Thank you very much for your interest in volunteering as a birth doula for the clinic patients at the Lifelong family of clinics. All deliveries will be at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. We do not have an official affiliation with either Lifelong or Alta Bates. Rather the midwives, social workers and pregnancy group coordinators at Lifelong have chosen to inform their patients of our services as volunteers and we have agreed to take their families on as clients. This relationship works because we are all committed to the belief that every woman deserves support through her pregnancy and birth regardless of financial means.
As a volunteer we ask that you make a minimum six (6) month commitment and serve at least three (3) families during that time. We also request that you come to a minimum of three meetins in that time period. Meetings will be held monthly, the second Sunday of the month at 6pm.
It is very important that we serve our families with the same professionalism and integrity that we would show any paying client. As such, we ask that in addition to attending a client’s birth you also conduct at least one prenatal visit and one post partum visit with the family that you are serving. We also strongly recommend that you always have a back-up doula in case of emergencies.
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