On the job: What it takes to earn $85,000 a year as a doula in Washington, D.C. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Samantha Griffin is in the business of helping people just as their lives are about to change forever.
Griffin took her first client in 2014, began working full-time as a doula in 2016, and launched her own agency in 2018. In the four years since, Griffin and her 10-person team have helped deliver and care for more than 150 babies in the Washington area. So, Griffin decided to become a doula. Doing so usually requires a two-day training, which can cost a few hundred dollars, followed by a certification process that requires a certain number of hours of client work. She enrolled in a doula training course with Mamatoto Village, which was led by and for Black women.
"We don't expect every dentist to have had a root canal recently," she says, "and plenty of people have obstetricians who don't have uteruses. And so it's not necessary to have done the thing in order to help people as a doula."Griffin began working full-time as a doula in 2016 and launched her own agency in 2018. She now has a team of 10 who are all Black women, which she says "is awesome because that's mostly who we serve.
Labor services include pre-natal meetings to discuss birth plans and learn comfort measures like massage and breathing techniques.
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