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title: "25 Reasons Why We Love Our Doulas!"
url: https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/csection-recovery/reasons-why-we-love-our-doulas/
description: "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."
published: 2016-06-23
updated: 2016-06-23
---

# 25 Reasons Why We Love Our Doulas!

Published 2016-06-23

June 23, 2016 by Christina Hemming

1. **The ultimate childbirth assistant for prenatal, labor, postnatal care, and beyond.**
2. **Your doula will help you, as well as your partner and family, with emotional support and physical assistance.**
3. **Strong, compassionate, caring, and deeply trustworthy.**
4. **It takes a village to raise children, and the same goes for childbirth.**
5. **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.**
6. **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.**
7. **Valuable information, must reads, and must dos, like belly binding.**
8. **Antepartum doulas provide help for women with high-risk pregnancies.**
9. **Personal trainer, massage therapist, yogi, and cheerleader during childbirth.**
10. **Knows when you need a new position, bath, walk, or massage.**
11. **Breath work, meditation, and calming the energy.**
12. **DJ extraordinaire - because you may want your music switched from relaxing spa to soul to the Beatles during your labor.**
13. **Dad's love Doulas! Because you know they have no idea what they are doing.**
14. **No judgments when you poop, fart, or puke. In fact, she'll encourage you that this is progress during labor.**
15. **Someone continuously by your side. Because if you're in a hospital, the nurses and doctor will not.**
16. **Studies show that women with a doula have a shorter birth by 40 minutes.**
17. **28% decrease in [c-section](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/csection-recovery/cesarean-section-what-you-need-to-know/) births.**
18. **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.**
19. **Help with house cleaning, errands, and support for you and your family during your postpartum recovery.**
20. **Breastfeeding support, because it's actually pretty difficult. Proper instructions to coax the baby into a solid latch while your baby nurses.**
21. **Family life doulas provide long-term, ongoing support.**
22. **Help transition to new parent, back to work, and raising a family.**
23. **Families with a doula are far less likely to experience [postpartum depression](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/csection-recovery/post-pregnancy-hormones-and-sex/) or the baby blues.**
24. **A Doula's attentive care services are now being offered during end of life as well.**
25. **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"

Filed under: [After Childbirth](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/go/childbirth-pregnancy/after-childbirth/), [Birth & Pregnancy](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/go/childbirth-pregnancy/), [C section Recovery](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/go/csection-recovery/), [Massage](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/go/childbirth-pregnancy/massage/), [Pregnancy Support](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/go/childbirth-pregnancy/pregnancy-support/), [Womens Health](https://csectionrecoverybelt.com/go/childbirth-pregnancy/womens-health-childbirth-pregnancy/)

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