Doula Reportedly Asks Client if She Can Keep Newborn Baby After Birth
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The Onion Staff
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Summary
A Seattle doula, after assisting with a 12-hour natural home birth, asked the mother if she could keep the newborn baby, offering a 10% discount on her services in exchange. The doula suggested that since the parents already had multiple children, they might be willing to let her take and raise the baby as her own daughter.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledOooh, you guys mind if I take this?
I would throw in a 10% discount on her birthing coach services if Kendrick and her husband let her take the newborn back to her apartment and raise it as her own daughter.
You guys already have, like, two or three kids, so I assumed you might be cool with me taking this one off your hands.
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