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revdoula is Stephanie Spitzer-Hanks. She teaches childbirth classes & provides postpartum doula support & holistic sleep coaching.

Stephanie is reverend and a doula. She provides skilled and experienced doula care, breastfeeding support, and childbirth education. Occasionally she blogs about birtheology at www.revdoula.com.

10/14/2026

Getting these flyers up around my hospital, trying to get the word out about this new support group I am hoping to facilitate for my internship. I'm *very* excited and also *very* nervous that no one will come.

If such a group were offered in your workplace, what would you want to get from it?

09/27/2026

Spending the morning with Postpartum Support International's annual Climb Out of the Darkness to raise awareness and support for perinatal mental health. Take a walk with me and learn!

08/25/2026

Revdoula starts a new chapter! Mr. Revdoula snapped this pic of me heading out to my first day of school--this time for a Master of Social Work degree at Syracuse University. My focus is on perinatal mental health, and I am looking to see where this takes me. I would love to be able to offer therapy for parents who are struggling with mental health, both during pregnancy and postpartum. But I also have a lil dream to find a way to support L&D nurses who are struggling with secondary trauma and/or moral injury. Not sure what that might look like, but I'm hoping to get some ideas during my internship this year with Employee Mental Health Support Services at Upstate Medical University Hospital. Wish me luck!

I'm still teaching childbirth education through my partnership with The Birth Hour with our online Know Your Options Childbirth Course. I'm not giving that up! But alas, my doula days are most likely behind me. Fortunately, I have a lot of nieces who are having babies these days, so at least I get to support them as they have questions about birth and newborn care and feeding. I'm a great aunt x5 with another on the way this fall! 🥰

06/08/2026

The congregation LAUGHED OUT LOUD when the deacon read the scriptures for this sermon. Granted, the irony was built in, since she was reading aloud in church the scriptures that supposedly prohibit women from speaking aloud in church.

Here's the final sermon in my series on women leaders in the New Testament: this one tackles the verses most often quoted to keep women out of leadership positions in the church: 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 & 1 Timothy 2:11-12

Link to post: https://www.revdoula.com/blog/2026/6/7/women-should-be-silent

Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/photos/grayscale-photo-of-woman-doing-silent-hand-sign-BcjdbyKWquw

06/01/2026

Two more women to add to the list of women leaders in the early church, and these two nearly got lost in translation: Phoebe and Junia. But the nerds/biblical scholars save us by not giving up on the text and ultimately giving these women their due!

This is number five in a six part series on women leaders in the Gospels and the early church.

Link to post: https://www.revdoula.com/blog/2026/6/1/phoebe-junia

Art: Junia, Serigraph, Remembering the Women: Works by Luba Lukova. Art ©️ Luba Lukova

05/25/2026

This week's sermon added a bunch more names to the list of women leaders in the early church. They are usually only mentioned briefly in one or two verses, so I spent some time giving more insight into how house churches were founded and grew, sometimes under the leadership of women. And I managed to pronounce Euodia and Syntyche without getting tongue tied, which was a major win.

This is number four in a six part series on women leaders in the Gospels and the early church.

Link to post: https://www.revdoula.com/blog/2026/5/25/the-church-in-her-house

Art: painted walls from Lullingstone Roman Villa, 4th century AD, Lullingstone, Kent. Photo by Nick Thompson, https://flic.kr/p/DT5xoM

05/18/2026

Prisca, often known by the nickname Priscilla, is always mentioned with her husband Aquila. BUT: 4 out of 6 times they are mentioned in the Bible, Prisca is mentioned first. She was kind of a big deal.

This is number three in a six part series on women leaders in the Gospels and the early church.

Link to post: https://www.revdoula.com/blog/2026/5/18/priscilla-and-aquila

05/13/2026

I bring you this early morning selfie, taken in truly awful lighting, as your reminder to schedule your mammogram if you are over 40. Or earlier if you are in a higher risk category! Take care of your gals, folks.

05/11/2026

Lydia was the first European convert to the Way of Christ recorded in the Bible. She was a firecracker--a wealthy woman who traded in purple cloth who, when she heard Paul preach, insisted on being baptized then and there and hosting a church in her house.

This is number two in a six part series on women leaders in the Gospels and the early church.

Link to post: https://www.revdoula.com/blog/2026/5/11/lydia

Art by Marie Ellenrieder, Baptism of Lydia, 1861. https://freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/blog/erwerbungen/marie-ellenrieder-2/

05/04/2026

Mary Magdalene, Joanna, & Susanna were all disciples of Jesus who also financed his ministry. And did you know that Mary Magdalene was the apostle to the apostles? She was kind of a big deal. Also, she was not sexually suspect in any way, though that myth persists.

This is the first in a six part series on women leaders in the Gospels & the early church.

Link to blog post: https://www.revdoula.com/blog/2026/5/4/mary-magdalene-joanna-susanna

Art by Lázaro A. Ceballos Fernandez, The Proclamation https://act.library.vanderbilt.edu/artworks/59863

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