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          Building Sacred Traditions in Birth
                                    Whapio Diane Bartlett
                      
published in Midwifery Today, Summer 2001


"During the past 19 years, my apprenticeship with birth has challenged me to
redefine my concept of boundaries, trust, fear and responsibility.  Today, if I
could make one statement about building a birthing community it would be this
-- build on what you know and believe is sacred."  
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                                  Birth Initiates Us All
                                           Eileen Sullivan
             
published in the Journal of the Childbirth and Postpartum
                             Professional Association (CAPPA)
, Summer 2003

"We all know that giving birth is a rite of passage; an initiation.  For birthing
women and for families, birth is a transformative event.  It is nothing less than
life-changing.  We know this.  What often goes unacknowledged is that we as
doulas are also initiated by birth -- and then reinitiated by each pregnant woman
with whom we work, and every birth that we attend."  
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