Here are some real things I hear pretty often as a doula AND educator:
I don’t need to take a class because you (my doula) will be at my birth
People have been having babies since the beginning of time, I’m not sure that I need to spend 6+ hours learning how to do something so natural
I’m planning to get an epidural, so I don’t need a class that teaches me how to cope with labor
When I’m in labor I’m going to forget everything I learned in class, anyway, so why take it?
But here’s what all of those reasons look like in reality:…
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