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Why Should You Hire a Doula?

There are many ways in which a birth doula be beneficial to your birth experience.
Here are my top ten!!



1. A birth doula can help reduce negative feelings and reinforce positive feeling’s surrounding a mother’s birth experience – her birth experience will be something she will remember for the rest of her life, and you want her to have a positive experience!

2. A birth doula can reduce the need for labor-induction drugs, forceps-assisted delivery, vacuum-assisted delivery, and cesarean sections.

3. A birth doula can reduce the mother’s request for pain medications such as epidurals, if this is something she would like to avoid.

4. A birth doula can be a vital source of informational, physical, and emotional support to a woman before, during, and after her birthing process.

5. A birth doula can help the mother experience a shorter labor with fewer complications.

6. A birth doula can bring a sense of calm and control in an otherwise chaotic situation.

7. A birth doula can be reassuring and encouraging to the mother and her birth team.

8. A birth doula is often more in tune to the emotional and/or spiritual aspects of pregnancy than other care providers might be (this is not always true, but can be).

9. A birth doula can help facilitate initial breastfeeding.

10. A birth doula can help prevent postpartum depression.

…and so much more!!!

Interested in having me as your birth doula? Send me a message!


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