Laurel Gourrier is a doula and one of the women behind the podcast 'Birth Stories in Color.'
If anything was to go wrong, I trusted them to communicate with me. I’m low-risk, but we had a plan in place to transfer to a hospital if necessary, or if I wanted interventions. People think home birth transfers to hospitals are usually emergencies, but you can also transfer to a hospital if halfway through your birth you’re like, “I don’t want this anymore.”
Gourrier's doula, Monique McCrystal, holds her hands as Gourrier prepares to give birth at home in 2018.I knew my midwives. A friend was my doula. I’ve always wanted an all-Black birth care team, but there aren’t very many Black midwives, especially home birth Black midwives. Funding is one reason why — finding the money to be able to take the courses that you need to and being able to do your apprenticeship can be difficult.
My third birth earlier this year was also a home birth. It was a fast labor and the midwives made it through the door literally as I was catching my daughter in my arms.Courtesy Laurel Gourrier
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