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What is a Doula?
The word "doula" comes from the ancient Greek meaning "a woman who serves" and is now used to describe a trained and experienced professional who provides physical, emotional and informational support to the mother and her family before, during and after birth. Studies have shown that when doulas attend birth, labors are shorter with fewer complications, babies are healthier and breastfeed more easily and families have an easier transition postpartum. How do doulas accomplish all this? As a doula, I :  Recognize birth as a key experience the mother will remember all her life.
Understand the physiology of birth and the emotional needs of a woman in labor.
Assist the woman and her family in preparing for birth and creating their birth plan, as well as coping with unexpected but necessary changes to the birth plan.
Stay with the woman throughout labor.
Provide emotional support, physical comfort measures and an objective viewpoint while also helping the family get the information they need to make an informed decision.
Facilitate communication between the laboring woman, her partner and her clinical care providers.
Perceive my role as nurturing and protecting the mother's memory of her birth experence.
Provide the space and support for the mother's partner to participate at his own level of
comfort, acknowledging the birth as a rite of passage for both mother and father.
Support the mother and family in postpartum adjustment through postpartum planning, nutritional and emotional counceling, physical recovery and breastfeeding support.
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