Doulas: The Support You Didn’t Know You Needed

Birth can be clinically safe and still feel emotionally unsafe. That tension sits at the heart of my conversation with Naomi, founder of Holding Her Space, and Lorene, a doula whose path into this work begins with baby loss and the quiet loneliness that so many families recognise. We talk openly about what doula support actually is, where it comes from, and why community-based care for African Caribbean mothers in Manchester is not a “nice extra” but a health need. We get into cultural safet...