Services
It’s important to know what services a doula provides. For that reason, it is important to ask questions about your particular pregnancy and how your labor doula can help you achieve the birth that you want. What follows is a summary of services that a doula provides.
I like to meet with my clients a few months before they are due to have their baby. This gives us a chance to get to know each other and time for me to learn how I can best assist you through this wonderful experience.
Please schedule your FREE No Obligation consultation to reserve your time or feel free to call with any questions you may have.
I look forward to hearing from you!
Please read the information that follows to get an idea and stimulate some questions you may have for me.
* Explanations of medical procedures and interventions
* Emotional support
* Advice during pregnancy
* Exercise and physical suggestions to make pregnancy and childbirth more comfortable
* Help with preparation of a birth plan
* Facilitation of communication between members of laboring woman’s birth team
* Massage and other non-pharmacological pain relief measures, aromatherapy, any other non-medical comfort techniques
* Positioning suggestions during labor and birth
* Support the partner so that he can provide support and encouragement to the laboring woman
* Help to avoid unnecessary interventions
* Help with breastfeeding preparation and beginning
* Written record of the birth (birth story)
* Present during entire labor and afterwards as long as is needed by parent(s).
