Postpartum Doulas Way back in 2012, I wrote a series of posts that explained why I chose to give birth at home with all five of my kids. We thought it would be interesting to build on those posts by sharing additional, and often unknown, ways of doing the whole baby thing. Today we asked Kimberly Bepler of ABC Doula to help us understand the purpose and function of a postpartum doula. Labor doulas are very popular for supporting pregnancy and birth, however postpartum doulas seem to still need quite a bit of explanation, as illustrated by the many people who ask what it is that actually I do. Having now been a postpartum doula for 15 years, I Keep Reading