Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs
Having a doula ensures that a person is with you at all times, giving birth partners a chance to use the bathroom, to eat, or take a break.
Answers to more specific questions like will my doula do?
How is having a doula different from having a partner/family member present at the birth?
Having a doula ensures that a person is with you at all times, giving birth partners a chance to use the bathroom, to eat, or take a break.
The Birth Partner also is having their own emotional journey and may also need support.
Combining support of partner/family member and a doula significantly lowers the csection rate vs partner alone.
25% Csection rate with partner only goes down to 13.4 % with partner and a doula.
Induction and Csection rates: 58.8% without a doula, 12.5% with a doula.
I’ll have nurses there for me why do I need a doula?
New mothers expect nurses to be present 53% of the time but some nurses are only in the room 6-10% of the time according to an article published by The Journal of Perinatal Education.
Why should I take a childbirth class?
Society likes to talk a lot about epidurals, csections, and inductions. Yet there’s more options for handling pain during labor. There are cascading events that can happen when medicinal pain meds are given in childbirth. As well as some women aren’t aware that they can choose to decline the induction or caesarean section until they have time to discuss and think about their options with the physician at length. This class will also help you to ask questions and think critically in your decisions throughout pregnancy and childbirth.