finding my place in the "doula world" ... as a birthkeeper

I attended my first-ever birth (that wasn’t my own) in 2009.

I barely knew the word “doula” until after I’d already been one.

A dear friend who was planning a homebirth ended up being induced, and begged me to come with her. She had no family around and her husband was deployed or in the field - so we lied and said I was her sister so that I could remai…