- The ultimate childbirth assistant for prenatal, labor, postnatal care, and beyond.
- Your doula will help you, as well as your partner and family, with emotional support and physical assistance.
- Strong, compassionate, caring, and deeply trustworthy.
- It takes a village to raise children, and the same goes for childbirth.
- The Doula Bag – full of essentials for you and your baby…Belly Band, yoga strap, and even things like a mirror to see the crowning head.
- Doulas are well trained with the proper maternity care, childbirth classes, and have to get the proper certification every three years. Your doula is your qualified best girlfriend.
- Valuable information, must reads, and must dos, like belly binding.
- Antepartum doulas provide help for women with high-risk pregnancies.
- Personal trainer, massage therapist, yogi, and cheerleader during childbirth.
- Knows when you need a new position, bath, walk, or massage.
- Breath work, meditation, and calming the energy.
- DJ extraordinaire – because you may want your music switched from relaxing spa to soul to the Beatles during your labor.
- Dad’s love Doulas! Because you know they have no idea what they are doing.
- No judgments when you poop, fart, or puke. In fact, she’ll encourage you that this is progress during labor.
- Someone continuously by your side. Because if you’re in a hospital, the nurses and doctor will not.
- Studies show that women with a doula have a shorter birth by 40 minutes.
- 28% decrease in c-section births.
- More facts – The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine claim that one of the most effective tools to improve labor and delivery outcomes is the continuous presence of support personnel, this being your doula.
- Help with house cleaning, errands, and support for you and your family during your postpartum recovery.
- Breastfeeding support, because it’s actually pretty difficult. Proper instructions to coax the baby into a solid latch while your baby nurses.
- Family life doulas provide long-term, ongoing support.
- Help transition to new parent, back to work, and raising a family.
- Families with a doula are far less likely to experience postpartum depression or the baby blues.
- A Doula’s attentive care services are now being offered during end of life as well.
- Helping people cope during times of transition and need.
**Please comment and share your doula super hero stories! We’d love to hear from you!
- The photo selection are a few of our favorites from The Huffington Post “58 Stunning Photo’s That Show The Bond Between Moms And Doulas”
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