Events

Together with the Tallahassee Doula Co-Op, I participate in a variety of events throughout the year. For more specifics, including a schedule of upcoming events, please visit tallahasseedoulacoop.com or email us at tallahasseedoulacoop@gmail.com. Not pregnant? Help us spread the word by telling your pregnant friends about the Tallahassee Doula Co-Op! Even if they don't know what a doula is, they'll thank you later!

Doula Speed Dating
One of the most important things to look for when interviewing and choosing a doula is to find someone that you feel at ease and comfortable with. When talking with a doula for the first time go with your gut feeling - either she's the one, or you need to keep looking. This process, however, can be very time consuming. That's why the Tallahassee Doula Co-Op cordially invites you to our next Doula Speed Dating! Want to find the doula that is just for you? Would you like to avoid multiple time consuming interviews? Come to our next Doula Speed Dating to meet and get to know the doulas of the Tallahassee Doula Co-Op in one evening.

Organic Birth Workshop
Join Lindsey Morrow, a Birthing From Within Mentor and Doula, and the Tallahassee Doula Co-Op for a seminar on Organic Birth. Participants will draw and experience a labyrinth, learn how your baby's position impacts your labor experience, practice different labor positions, discover what a doula is and how she might be helpful at your birth, and how to ask questions and get good information from your care provider before and when in labor.

Mom's Time Out Tallahassee Events
The Tallahassee Doula Co-Op is a part of Mom's Time Out Tallahassee, a group which promotes moms, motherhood, and the community by showcasing local and mom-run businesses. We regularly participate in Mom's Time Out events. For information on upcoming events, please visit the Mom's Time Out Calendar of Events.
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PAST ONE-TIME ONLY EVENTS:

 The 2012 Improving Birth Rally for Change in Tallahassee
September 3, 2012 at the Old Capitol Building
Co-hosted by ICAN of Tallahassee and Tallahassee Doula Co-Op

  The purpose for the Improving Birth Rally for Change is to encourage and insist that all maternal healthcare providers practice evidence-based care. This is not a protest, but a public outreach event.

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The Great Diaper Change Event in Tallahassee
Hosted by Ecological Babies

Join us on April 21st, 2012 as we attempt to break the world record for the most cloth diapers changed at one time! This world record attempt is a great way to show the world how many people are already choosing and using reusable cloth diapers successfully. But there are still a lot of people who don’t know about cloth diapers. If you want to help spread the word about cloth diapers, please join the Real Diaper Association, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that advocates for the use of reusable cloth diapers.

We will be sharing details as we figure it all out, but we are hoping to make an afternoon of this and possibly share a lunch together afterwards so we can make friends and enjoy being in the company of like-minded parents. Come join us and bring ALL of your cloth diapering friends and let's BREAK SOME RECORDS and show the world that CLOTH ROCKS!!!

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Spinning Babies Workshop
www.spinningbabies.com
Easier Birth Through Fetal Positioning
Hosted by the Tallahassee Doula Co-Op
January 22, 2011

This all-day workshop was for doulas, childbirth educators, midwives, labor and delivery nurses and physicians. Beginning with basic information, suddenly what seemed simple becomes profound as you begin to associate unexpected causative factors with labors you have wondered about. The spatial explanations and visual aids make the Spinning Babies Workshop so valuable. Even the experienced provider will bring home new techniques and understanding.

Topics Covered: Belly Mapping, labor preparation, birth progress, cephalopelvic disproportion; working with a stall in labor; second stage; avoiding breech and posterior presentations before labor, asynclitism and occiput posterior labors.


Gail Tully (right), CPM, CD (DONA) Gail is the creator of Spinning Babies and a Certified Professional Midwife with a small homebirth practice in Minnesota. She serves on two midwifery boards there. She has been a doula trainer (DONA approved) and doula program coordinator and consultant. Past community work has involved promoting doula care through the founding of the Childbirth Collective, now one of our nation's largest doula network groups. She has also consulted and trained with several local doula programs including colleges, hospitals and social service agencies. Gail developed the Spinning Babies concept in the year 2000 and began workshops in 2001. She has been published in Midwifery Today and The International Doula. Gail formed Maternity House Publishing for her booklets and future DVDs. She also publishes www.SpinningBabies.com. She is a wife and mother and enjoys writing, walking and tea.