13/01/2025
What if we started 2025 with a powerful movement?
Stories often come to us doulas from the families we accompany of communications and interactions with health professionals, during the perinatal period, which leave mothers and fathers with unpleasant sensations and even trauma.
We enter a new year with the hope of positive changes, especially in the communication used by health professionals during preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
We invite everyone to write constructive SUGGESTIONS to health institutions about how they would like to have been treated:
✨ What words would you have liked to hear?
✨ What attitudes would have made all the difference?
✨ How could the experience have been more positive?
We will fill the email boxes of health institutions with our voice. Because what you feel matters!
How to participate in this movement?
1. Follow the format of the example below to write your experiences: "I was told this"..."i would rather have heard this"
I was told....
“We will give you an epidural, you are screaming too much”
I would rather have heard...
“It is ok to use your voice...BE louder if you need... You can also go to the shower, I feel it could help you with the sensations at this stage.”
2. Post a story on your Instagram account and mention Doular (.apd) so we can also share your story - You can use the “Now you” model that you can find in the page highlights under “Preferia isto”.
3. Send an email with your phrase “I was told this…I would rather have heard this” to the health institution where you were attended with the subject SUGGESTION and Doular on CC ([email protected])
4. You can find the institution email here: Health institutions email list
5. If you want to write a more elaborate letter, which isn't just in the format “I was told this...I would rather have heard this!” you can let yourself be inspired by these model letters: Template Letters
6. Participate in this movement! What you feel matters! Share your suggestions with healthcare professionals. All together we can improve assistance to families in the perinatal period in Portugal
Together, moms, dads, doulas, and healthcare professionals, we ca
