Not exact matches
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.
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Birth number 2: Having a baby in the real United States: Your give
birth to a healthy baby, and you've never heard of a birth d
birth to a healthy baby, and you've never heard
of a
birth d
birth doula.
You may notice that there's one statistic we didn't track; one that's often promoted by
birth professionals and
doulas in their yearly statistics - the
number of clients who used medication in labor.
Luckily, with the rise in demand for
doulas, the
number of certified
birth doulas in the United States has grown to over 7,000 practicing
doulas today.
Doula - supported
births are also associated with a
number of positive health and medical outcomes.
It found that
births attended by «continuous
doula support» — compared to those that weren't — had «lower use
of epidural analgesia, less pitocin, fewer mothers developing fever, fewer forceps or vacuum deliveries, and an extremely low
number of cesarean deliveries,» making
doula support a relatively «risk - free intervention.»