As a child, Rebecca Illing would spend vacations with her parents and brother, Alex, at Paço da Glória, a gothic mansion turned guesthouse in Portugal’s lush Minho region. A 40-minute drive north of Porto, then the family’s hometown, the property is surrounded by dense cork oak woodland, and Illing loved getting lost on its grounds…
Kanwal Haq, a New York-based doula, was on a plane home from a vacation last September when she received a text from her client: “It’s game day here.” The baby was arriving a week earlier than planned. “They are keeping me in triage right now though because I’m only 3cm,” her client, Alyssa Coats-Clark, wrote….
Penny Simkin, a childbirth educator and author who was often described as the “mother of the doula movement,” died on April 11 at her home in Seattle. She was 85. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said her daughter, Linny Simkin. Ms. Simkin, a physical therapist turned birth educator, was a pioneer in helping women have…
