Supporting Clients through High Risk Pregnancies with Parijat Deshpande
If clients develop a high-risk pregnancy, some doulas may be unprepared for the change.
How doulas can best support clients facing high-risk pregnancies? Listen to this episode to find out!
Experiencing a high-risk pregnancy is not something any parent would plan for. It can be lifesaving for families experiencing high-risk pregnancies to receive quality support. Author, Speaker, and Health and Media Consultant Parijat Deshpande provides that kind of quality support! Parijat’s trauma-informed work provides strategies, insights, and neurobiological techniques to help pregnant people stack the odds in their favor during a high-risk pregnancy after prematurity or second or third-trimester loss. In this episode, we discuss how doulas, in particular, can best support clients facing high-risk pregnancies.
Follow Parijat and her work:
Path to Baby Program for Parents: https://www.parijatdeshpande.com/p2b
Training for Doulas: https://www.parijatdeshpande.com/learnwithparijat
Parijat’s bestselling book Pregnancy Brain: https://www.amazon.com/Pregnancy-Brain-Mind-Body-Management-High-Risk-ebook/dp/B07DYTWBZZ
Parijat Deshpande, CCTS-I, CTP is a bestselling author, speaker, consultant, and film producer who is dedicated to improving outcomes and ending preterm birth by adding a trauma-informed, neurobiological lens to prenatal care. On a mission to end the high-risk pregnancy crisis, she has served and supported thousands of pregnant people through her live events, one-on-one work, and bestselling book, Pregnancy Brain: A Mind-Body Approach to Stress Management During a High-Risk Pregnancy. Learn more about Parijat and her work at parijatdeshpande.com
Thanks to Doula Maddi for contributing her questions to this episode!
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