Birth Doula

What is a Doula?
A birth doula is professionally trained; knowledgeable about birth; and provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to expectant women and their spouses/partners before, during, and after birth.


Role of the Doula?
As a DONA certified birth doula, I provide assistance to husbands, partners, or other family members, who want to be actively involved in the birth experience. As your doula, I will provide physical, emotional, and informational support to you and your partner throughout labor and early postpartum. Support includes: reassuring words, touch/massage, positioning for comfort or to assist with labor progression, and other non-medicated comfort measures.

Numerous clinical studies have found that a doula’s presence at birth

• tends to result in shorter labors with fewer complications
• reduces negative feelings about one’s childbirth experience
• reduces the need for pitocin (a labor-inducing drug), forceps or vacuum extraction and cesareans
• reduces the mother’s request for pain medication and/or epidurals.

My Birth Doula Services Include:

• One meeting to discuss my experiences, training, and practices as a birth doula as well as for you to share your desires and wishes for your labor and birth.
• Additional 1-2 meetings prior to birth to provide additional education, practice skills, or to review birth wish list.
• On-call service 2 weeks prior to and after your estimated due date.
• Continuous birth doula support from the onset of labor until after the birth.
• A written birth summary within one month after your birth.
• One postpartum visit.

My Back-up Doula
To ensure that your birth is covered, I have a colleague who provides back-up coverage for me. You will have the opportunity to meet the back-up doula prior to making your decision whether to hire me.

Fee for the above listed services: $500

Availability
Reservations can be made as early in your pregnancy as you desire. Please email or call me for availability.