Birth Doula Support

What is a Doula?

What is a doula?

A doula provides support, comfort, and calm during highly transitional times of life.

A doula helps prepare for a major transitional event like birth, postpartum, and miscarriage/abortion by educating about the process and teaching methods to cope with physical fluctuations, nervous system regulation, and spiritual integration.

During birth, a doula can apply the use of massage, heat/cold, movement and positioning, coaching, and many other other non-medical measures to support the laboring process.

Most importantly, a doula provides support tailored to the unique needs of the birthing person and their family.

Doula Stats

The presence of a doula can reduce C-Section rates by 28-56%*

  • Doulas can help reduce epidural rates by 9% or more*

  • Doulas can help reduce induction rates**

  • *Hodnett et al., 2012, Kozhimannil et al., 2016

    **Hannah et al., 1996, Kassab et al., 2011; Pavicic et al., 2009; Goer, 2012

What’s Included

Hospital or home birth support

  • 24/7 on-call access from 38 weeks

  • Support and comfort measures during labor

  • Support for birthing partner

  • Interface with the medical team or midwives (I do not speak for you. I amplify your wishes)

Postpartum Visits

  • 2x 1 hour follow-up visits

  • Birth story processing

  • Lactation support and referral, if needed

  • Baby care so new parent can rest or shower

Prenatal Visits

  • Discussion of birth preferences

  • Movement and coping techniques to support the body and mind during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum

  • Referrals to necessary providers

  • Birth partner support for labor, birth, and postpartum

  • Postpartum planning

  • Discussion of thoughts and feelings around pregnancy and labor

Birth Packages

Prenatal + Labor Coaching

  • Two prenatal visits to assist in birth planning, labor coping strategies, partner involvement, and more.

Prenatal + Labor Support

  • Prenatal Coaching plus labor and birth support, plus 1x postpartum visit.

Labor + Postpartum Support

  • Prenatal Coaching + Labor Support plus seamless postpartum home support.

FAQs

  • I support most births. Included are:

    • Home births

    • Hospital births

    • VBAC

    • Planned C Sections

    I do not support planned free births.

  • By definition, a doula does not perform any medical interventions. A doula is there to support you, make you feel secure, and to empower you and your birth partner. All medical procedures are deployed by medical professionals.