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Word gets around...
One of my couples give birth last Sunday at 34 weeks. She was transferred from her small community hospital to the large hospital with a NICU (where my own first son, and many of my clients' babies are born). She was amazing and had a natural birth despite the unexpected situations, and the medical staff (including an OB she'd never met) did a great job of managing the couple's wishes with the medical concerns.
I stopped by the mother/baby unit on Monday to visit them. We were walking down to the NICU together to see their little guy, and I saw my midwife in the hallway. She was talking with someone else so I just leaned over and squeezed her arm as we went by.
She got this big smile on her face and pointed at me and said, "Nice birth!" I was a little off guard and I didn't quite know what to say, plus I needed to keep up with my couple to get to the NICU, so I just said thank you! 
I can't believe that she had heard about the birth so quickly, that she knew *I* was the one who had doula'd, and that she had nice things to say based on what she'd been told! Made me feel so warm and fuzzy. Her opinion is important to me, and it indicated that maybe, just maybe, the hospital staff doesn't see me as the crazy, radical, troublesome doula. 
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CD(DONA), LCCE, BDT(DONA)
Doula and natural childbirth instructor
Birth doula trainer
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That is awesome! 
and Zee 
and baby Charlie
GO DOULA GO DOULA! 
That's awesome! It feels so good to be told that our work is worthwhile and valued to others.
