Doulas support a women as individuals and get t know you and your goals.
Our code of ethics spells out the way
our doulas support a woman's choices without judgment and without trying to change her mind or convince her of anything.
As
a doula I support women as they transition to motherhood.
Not exact matches
She has
supported women through labor, birth and postpartum since 2014 and in 2016 she completed her
doula training with Matrona.
Andrea followed her interests in teaching and
supporting women when she decided to become a
doula.
Within a week of her
doula training she attended her first birth and has been
supporting women and families ever since.
Research shows lower C - section rates among
women who receive
doula support as well as increased satisfaction with their birth experience.
I offer San Francisco Peninsula
women and their families respectful, experienced and calm companionship in the form of postpartum
doula support and preparatory birth and parenting consulting.
After a friends wonderful experience with a
doula during a rough labor, Alex realized how much
support women need throughout pregnancy and labor.
For the most part,
doulas were associated with helping
women in pregnancy and birth have a positive experience through education and
support.
She fell in love with birth and the prospect of being a
doula through
supporting women in my life who courageously ventured into parenthood.
A
doula is a
woman who is trained to provide
support to a mother before, during, and after she gives birth.
Chapters include: The Role of The
Doula, Home Visiting, Providing Care with Caution: Protecting Health & Safety in The Home & Car, Honoring Postpartum
Women and Teaching Self - Care, Easing Postpartum Adjustment, Appreciating Your Clients» Cultural Diversity by Karen Salt,
Supporting The Breastfeeding Mother (Donna Williams & Opal Horvat Advisors) Newborn Basics: Appearance, Behavior, and Care, Offering
Support to Partners and Siblings, Unexpected Outcomes: Caring for The Family at a Time of Loss, Nurturing Yourself by
A
doula, a
woman trained in labor
support, as a part of your birth team helps create this birth circle and protective embrace for Moms and families.
Doulas provide all of the above to the birth partner so that they have the energy and confidence to continue to
support the laboring
woman as only they can.
A recent review of a number of scientific studies compared outcomes for
women who had three kinds of labor
support during birth: nursing staff
support, family / friend
support, and
doula support.
Many
women are able to keep parts of their birth plans intact, despite induction of labor, with the proper planning, practitioner
support, and labor
support from both family members and
doulas.
A DONA - Certified Birth
Doula, I have been
supporting women in childbirth and postpartum since 2013.
With the
support of a
doula,
women were less likely to have pain - relief medications administered and less likely to have a cesarean birth.
I am a certified birth
doula through DONA and have been
supporting women during birth since 2012 (longer, if you count the time I assisted my cousin with the birth of her third baby!).
Since
doulas don't provide the clinical
support a pregnant
woman needs and they don't catch babies,
women who desire a homebirth are often faced with the decision to choose between hiring a midwife or a
doula.
A
doula is a professional birth coach who
supports a
woman in labor as well as her partner.
Doulas offer
support services to
women during the birth, as well as after delivery, by assisting with infant care and household chores.
This could be your partner, sibling, parent, friend or your
doula (someone who gives emotional and practical
support to
women during pregnancy and birth).
Women who are planning a natural birth often do hire doulas to help increase their support team, as do women desiring a vaginal birth after a previous cesa
Women who are planning a natural birth often do hire
doulas to help increase their
support team, as do
women desiring a vaginal birth after a previous cesa
women desiring a vaginal birth after a previous cesarean.
She combines the
support aspect of a
doula with fitness principles to help
women prepare their body for birth, recover optimally and restore their core confidence for motherhood.
I, myself, always recommend moms have a
doula or
doula - like
support person, and my rate of
women needing to be transferred to a hospital is as little as 7 %.
Doulas offer emotional, physical, and informational
support to
women before, during, and after giving birth.
There are
women who are having planned cesareans who hire a
doula for the physical and emotional
support.
Partners, family, friends, and
doulas are invited to
support a
woman, as she so desires.
Plenty of respected research
supports the safety of planned home birth (most recent large prospective trial published in the British Medical Journal), but for
women who need to deliver in a hospital due to a complication, the midwife stays by your side and adopts a
doula role.
Statistics have proven that
women who have
Doula support will have shorter labors, fewer unnecessary interventions, less chance of an unnecessary cesarean, greater breastfeeding success and less postpartum mood disorders.
Losing my son (3rd child) at 43 weeks during labor, was attempting a home birth vba2c, his passing was NOT due to me attempting a vaginal birth or a home birth, in fact when we attempt to have our 4th child I will be going for a vba3c, I am so
supported through this by the
women in my local homebirth group, it has allowed me to see the sun in the storm, I have started a charity in my sons name to help
women get a
doula or midwife when they would not be able to afford their services other wise.
A
Doula will do her best to provide with
woman support, but if she can't because you did not contract with her in advance, we don't want you to be left to your own devices.
And just in case you need some convincing, research (like this and this and this) has shown that
women supported by a
doula are: * more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth * less likely to ask for pain medication * less likely to have a cesarean birth * more likely to report a positive birth experience * more likely to have a decrease length of labor
Gentle Choice Birth & Parenthood
Support 949-300-0291 www.ocdoulas.com Lindsey Meehleis - Matthews, Sheill Sedillo, Nancy Palmer, Angelique Vink, Courtney Ellis, Chelle GoodfriendGentle Choices Childbirth and Parenthood
Support is operated by a group of passionate
women who are committed to providing you with the best service you can find including birth and postpartum
doula services, childbirth education, lactation education and infant massage instruction.
As a mom of three,
doula and educator who has
supported hundreds of
women and families, I have a deep understanding of the emotions and struggles moms face in feeding their little ones.
After working as a childbirth educator and attending a couple hundred births (as a
doula — labor assistant) in birth centers, homes and hospitals, I've come to believe that the overwhelming majority of
women intuitively gravitate to which location, type of
support and «methodology» is best for themselves and their unborn babies to achieve a safe passage through the giving birth / delivering experience.
A
doula is a trained labour companion offering continuous emotional and practical
support to a
woman (or couple) before, during and after childbirth.
One way is to ensure that all
women have a
doula to
support their pregnancy and birth process.
We know human breast milk is best for babies, and as a premier
doula agency in Tulsa, we fully
support it, and we also know that even with the best lactation
support and all the knowledge in the world some
women will be unable to breastfeed for one reason or another.
And if you go over your dates your
doula will be a constant source of
support during this time, which can be stressful and challenging for many
women.
Education prior to birth,
support at home in early and active labor are just 2 of the ways
doulas assist
women during pregnancy.
Though the career of a professional
doula may be fairly new in modern society,
women have been
supporting women as long as they have been giving birth.
I decided that being a
doula provided me another opportunity to both expand my knowledge around natural medicine and better
support women during emotional and monumental periods in their lives.
In our Matrona
Doula Program we put a different spin on what it really means to
support and witness a
woman and we explore what it means to nurture a mom during her childbearing cycle.
My
doula work is committed to
supporting those who are traditionally left out of conversations about their rights and choices around reproductive justice — especially
women of color, trans and queer - identified people.
My experience was so awful, I trained as a
doula to try to provide
women and partners with the emotional
support that I needed and didn't get in labour.
«More hospitals are opening their doors to
doulas because they know
women want that kind of
support,» says Maureen Corry, M.P.H., executive director of the Maternity Center Association in New York City, a nonprofit organization devoted to improving maternity care.
Greek for a
woman who helps
women, a
doula is not trained to deliver babies, but rather lends
support to
women and their families, providing encouragement and information through late pregnancy, labor and birth.