Newborn Olivia Gordon looks at her father,
moments after delivery. Stony Brook,
New York, 1999. Photo © Sylvia Plachy
"This is really a wonderful event, and
when you see a woman birth her
baby and where that baby started
and where it's come to, it's just
unbelievable. When a woman or her
husband looks into your eyes and
says, 'We don't know how we would
have done this without you being
here, and we'll never ever have
another baby unless you show up
again,' it is a sort of validation that
you really did make a change in
their life."
Lise Golub, an experienced doula
and birth support activist.
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