Is A Doula Right For Me?
Doulas provide essential emotional, physical and informational support that enhances the birth experience, promotes positive outcomes and helps parents feel more empowered and confident.
What A Doula Can Do For You
Emotional Support
Continuous emotional support, helping parents feel more secure and less anxious during labor and delivery.
Reassurance and answering questions. As a solutions-based provider, I am here to you find solutions that work for you.
Provide encouragement and comfort, reducing stress during birth process
Physical Support & Comfort Measures
Doulas are skilled in a variety of comfort measures.
Lite massage, positioning, breathing techniques, counter pressure. All different kinds of pain management options.
Make the experience more comfortable and to give the birthing person physical control over the process, giving you the autonomy to decide what you need in your process.
Improved Birth Outcomes
Research indicates that families with doula support have higher rates of satisfaction in their birth experience, better infant bonding, and improved breast feeding success.
Having a Doula Can Provide Numerous Benefits for Birthing and Postpartum.
Advocacy
Doulas help parents communicate their birth preferences with healthcare providers, insuring their voices are heard and their choices are respected.
Helping them advocate for themselves; parents take control over making informed decisions
Partner Support
Guiding your partner on how they can assist effectively and how to be actively involved in birth.
Teaching partners how they can be involved in the birthing process in the way that the couple wants them to be involved.
Help your partner to find a way to connect and support each other working as a team.
Enhances the partners confidence and strengthens the family bond.
Reduced Medical Interventions
Birthing persons with doulas often experience shorter labors and fewer complications.
Studies show that just the presence of a doula can reduce the likelihood of interventions such as cesarean, epidurals, the use of forceps or vacuum extraction.
Postpartum Support
Breastfeeding, newborn care and adjusting to life with a newborn, helping to ease the transition and reduce the risk of postpartum depression.
