Why Did This Doula Plead to Keep Her Client’s Newborn?
Have you ever wondered what your doula is really thinking during those marathon home births? Yeah, me too—until this gem from Seattle landed in my inbox and now I’m questioning if I should have equipped my own birthing coach with a metal detector. Imagine enduring twelve hours of sweat, tears, and primal screams, only to have your doula—wide-eyed and enthusiastic—ask if she can take the baby home as a quirky parting gift (with a 10% discount, of course). Who says birth stories have to be boring, right? Trust me, you’ll never look at prenatal care the same again. Say hello to the wildest postpartum negotiation you’ll ever witness. LEARN MORE.
SEATTLE—After guiding her client through a grueling 12-hour natural home birth, local doula Raquel Parker reportedly asked mother Melanie Kendrick on Monday if she could keep the baby. “Oooh, you guys mind if I take this?” said Parker, adding that she would throw in a 10% discount on her birthing coach services if Kendrick and her husband let her take the newborn back to her apartment and raise it as her own daughter. “Jeez, I was just asking. You guys already have, like, two or three kids, so I assumed you might be cool with me taking this one off your hands. Plus, I’ve got tons of experience with kids as an aunt, so I’d do an awesome job taking care of it. Not to mention I only live, like, a 45-minute drive away, so if you ever wanted to come play with the baby, or just set up a FaceTime, we could totally work something out. If you’re dead set on keeping the baby, though, I totally get it. You’re not doing anything with this placenta, though, right?” At press time, sources confirmed that Parker had slipped the newborn into her purse before leaving.
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