Samantha had just become a doula when she was messaged on Instagram by her first client, a 24-year-old woman saying she thought she was going into labor.
The woman, Kaitlyn Braun, told Samantha that her contractions were 10 minutes apart, and then 8 minutes, the doula told Cosmopolitan in September. Doulas, women who don’t usually have formal obstetric training who are hired to guide and support pregnant women through labor, don’t typically arrive so early during labor. But because Braun had said she learned about her pregnancy late in the process and that the child was conceived out of a sexual assault, Samantha asked if Braun wanted her to come over and begin helping.
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