Is there a website that fully explains maternity notes and abbreviations?

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Want to be on the ball with Doula training. Anyone know where I can find such info?

bumpity bump

Don't know of a website but in several of the pregnancy books I have there is an explanation. I've got the Miriam Stoppard one and the Sheila Kitzinger - they both have it.

when you starting?

I've been ploughing through the reading and have the workshop next weekend. I feel really unprepared, feel as though I should have made more notes as I read. I am also trying to put the thought of the 'role play' we might have to do out of my head.
I need to have read at least four of the main books listed and as yet have only read three. I've got a week to read Bestfeeding and the last little bit of Ina May. I didn't get on with Primal Health and it was only after reading it I realised that Michel Odent is such a doula guru.
Please tell me I'll be fine.

you'll be fine

the course is just the beginning, you never stop learning and reading and educating yourself about birth...

You'll be fine, I didn't quite have 4 books under my belt before I did my course but I had learned a lot via the internet and the forums I frequent. Not all the ladies at my workshop had done all their reading either, and the rest of them didn't have as much internet research done as my friend and I had already done for our VBACs. Once the workshop was done I continued my reading and started preparing my written piece. I also got appt with my cons to go over my VBAC with forceps and get that birth sorted in my head so I feel I can move on.

Don't rush yourself or expect too much of yourself, you're a caring human being who has lots to offer, has her own baggage like the rest of us but will be just what many women need as their Doula. We need very many different kinds of Doulas to support the very many different kinds of birthing mothers. As long as we are generous, compassionate, adaptable, warm and not selfish.

I say it again, you'll be fine!

I also found Michel Odent too textbook, but I intend to go back to him and read more as what I did read made perfect sense, just a bit too heavy. Whereas Dr Sarah Buckley and Pam England are much easier to read for a lay person.