Neo-soul singer Erykah Badu has an interesting dream, and it's not music-related: She'd like to pursue her passion of helping women deliver babies the natural way.
The Brooklyn-based mother of three -- who had her children at home -- is a known advocate of unmedicated childbirth, and she felt a calling to become a doula (labor support attendant) after helping her best friend through a delivery in 2001, she tells People magazine's print edition.
"I've always had a mothering nature. But I didn't plan on becoming a doula. I just wanted to care for my family and friends," she said. "When I saw the baby, I cried, I knew what i was supposed to do with my life."
Since then, Badu, 40, studied the doula tradition and has offered her services to patients free of charge, providing emotional support and Reiki massage to assist laboring women deliver without the assistance of drugs. "Nothing gives me more pleasure than being the welcoming committee for a mother's new joy," she said.
Badu, who's a spokeswoman for the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (a non-profit organization that promotes midwifery training, breastfeeding support and the prevention of infant mortality in the black community), would also like to help open birth centers in the inner-city.
If Badu (or "Badoula" as she reveals her patients call her) is looking for more clients for her doula practice, she should look no further than her good pal, mama-to-be Beyoncé.
Source: http://www.ivillage.com/singer-erykah-badu-wants-become-midwife/1-a-379833
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