Who is a Doula?

A doula is a non-clinical labor companion who helps families and birthers prepare for birth, provides evidence-based research, gives continuous emotional and physical support throughout labor, and advocates for your choices.

Here is how I can help you:

Preparation & Education

Help you create a birth plan, provide evidence-based information and research, teach coping skills, prepare for the unexpected, and connect you to resources.

Emotional Support

Help create a calm, non-judgmental space, actively listen, validate your emotional experiences , provide positive affirmations and assurances, and help you process and nurture the memory of your birth.

Advocacy

Help create a space for informed decisions, empower you to ask questions, support your autonomy to make choices about your body and baby, facilitate communication, and help understand biases in the healthcare system.

Physical Support

I will be a continuous presence through the duration of your labor and provide comfort measures including breathing techniques, touch massage, counter-pressure, suggestions for movement and position changes, hydrotherapy, hydration and nutrition.

Partner Support

I am not here to replace an existing partner. I will help create and empower a team-oriented approach by helping your loved one feel involved, demonstrate effective support, reduce their stress, and allow them to focus on the role they want by supplementing support.

Positive Experience

All of these support techniques help lead you to a higher satisfaction of your birth, fewer interventions, shorter labor, and can reduce postpartum stress and anxiety.