The Doula Difference​

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Each role of the birth team provides vital care:

• Your medical care provider (midwife or doctor) focuses on the safety of you and your baby, and guiding you with possible medical decisions that need to be made. 

• Love, companionship, feeling safe, and intimate knowledge of the birthing person is provided by the primary birth partner (when applicable). 

• Your doula brings comprehensive knowledge of the physiology of birth, the importance of client-centered nurturing support, and the impact of the transformational experience the birth memory holds for the family. 

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Doula care is backed by research!​

 

Numerous clinical studies have found that a doula's presence at birth: 

• Tends to result in shorter labors with fewer complications. 

• Decreases stress reactions, fear, and anxiety. 

• Improves birth satisfaction and positive feelings about one's childbirth experience. 

• Significantly reduces the need for labor-inducing drugs, medical interventions, and cesarean delivery. 

• Greatly reduces requests for pain medications and/or epidurals. 

• Can lead to higher infant APGAR scores and breastfeeding rates. 

• Reduces instances of postpartum mood disorders. 

• Helps parents adapt to new family dynamics with greater self-confidence in their parenting. 

• Not only are we beneficial to families who desire unmedicated birth, but also for those who require medically necessary induction or interventions, prefer medicated pain relief, planned cesarean, etc. A supportive doula realizes that not one type of birth is right for every family.

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* Now partnering with a certified lactation counselor/postpartum doula to visit you upon returning home with your baby after delivery! Visit Life After Birth for more information! 

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How doulas bring the magic: ​

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• Assists the family during the prenatal time to gather resources and information to develop their individualized preferences and desires. 

• Provides continuous support throughout the labor and birth, utilizing comforting, affirming, and relaxing techniques.

• Emotionally supports the birthing person and partner with calm assurance and an objective viewpoint.

• Facilitates communication with medical care providers, as well as helping to gather information needed to make informed decisions. 

• Support continues into the postpartum period, including breastfeeding support, and visit(s) to process your birth experience and gain your valuable feedback.