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How I got Banned From Attending Births in a Doula Capacity at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital

2/12/2020

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I've decided to share a difficult situation that has been a dark cloud over my life for the last 6 months. Some of my colleagues may have heard that something was happening at Methodist/Park Nicollet Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN that was antagonistic towards doulas but few know the full story. I share that now in the hopes that doulas and birthing families will read this and make informed choices when deciding where to give birth.

In early September of 2019 I received a call from a doula client (client "A") who was about 37 weeks pregnant. She informed me that her midwife at Methodist said there was a problem with me attending her birth and that I needed to call to get it sorted out. It was made to sound like a simple problem with me signing the doula agreement, though I knew I'd already signed that and had attended many births at Methodist, so I figured it would be easy to sort out.

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    Anne is a writer, birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, placenta encapsulator, and mother who is thrilled to be invited to support families throughout the pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey.

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