Certified Birth Doula
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Congratulations on this new life joining your family!
Please take some time to browse the information on my site. I have
included many helpful links and references for you to enjoy.
experience! It is my intention to help guide you through this time and make
this an enjoyable and memorable time for your family.
A doula is a woman that is experienced in childbirth that provides emotional, physical
and educational support to her client families usually in the last trimester and early
post partum period. Doulas have a unique understanding of a womans desire to
protect her birth experience as it is the most powerful and intimate experience of her
life.
She attends the laboring family as support for both the mother and the father. She
provides emotional support for dad and mom as well as physical comfort measures
for the mother to help her through her labor.
A doula tries to help facilitate an environment friendly to birthing bringing positive and
loving energy to the birth of a child.
A Doula tries to help a family achieve an open communication between them and
their Midwife or OB.
What a Doula IS NOT:
A doula is NOT a medical caregiver and does not do cervical or Fetal Heart Tone
checks.
A doula does not offer medical advice.
A doula cannot advocate FOR her clients but rather provide them with the
information they need to advocate for themselves.
A doula does not, ever, replace the Dad/ partner but rather helps him /her become
more of an active participant in the birth process.
at your birth :
Reduces the need for pain
medication.
Reduces the instance of
ceserean section.
Helps facilitate shorter
labors
Reduces the need for
interventions
Reduces the instance of post
partum depression.
More sucess in early
breastfeeding.
