Oh snacks! The eternal question for anyone who works with birthing women LOL.

It's not a science I can tell you that much!

It really depends on the doula.

Alot of doulas have young families and they may only take one birth a month anyway, because it's easier for them to manage and minimises the stress about births clashing.

Other doulas come at it with a trusting approach - that if a woman needs them they will be there so they don't stress about it .

Realistically, although everyone has an EDD, they can birth anytime 3 weeks (for the sake of argument) either side of that. So that gives us a 6 week time frame to work in.

How each doula manages that is a very individual thing and it will depend alot on her personal circumstances..something you need to talk to her about.

For me? I don't take on clients that are due in the same week. That's my rule of thumb. I know that doesn't protect me from having clients labouring at the same time but hey...you gotta start somewhere I have a back up who I liaise with on a regular basis as well. But mostly I trust the universe...it's all worked out so far

Birth is unpredictable....and there's not much we can do about it, you either have to roll with it - or become an obstetrician