Why should I hire a doula?
YOU SHOULD HIRE A DOULA 🗣
After my last post about the hypothetical Paige character, I saw a lot of responses about how many women were in this position 36+ weeks in.
While birth is not a formulaic experience and we can’t predict exactly how our birth stories will end up, we can prepare and educate ourselves to be able to navigate most scenarios, know our rights, options, how to advocate for ourselves, and how to labor more efficiently and effectively - because nobody wants to be in active labor for 24 hours 😩.
So, how does a doula play a role in this?
Well, doulas are trained and skilled professionals who have supported births, know birth and can be a coach or a partner to you in labor - taking most of the unnecessary thinking out of birth for you.
Our job is to support mama physically and emotionally during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
We educate you and help you to have a positive and safe birth experience so that your only focus is meeting your baby. And, if something on your birth plan changes, we already have a plan to exhaust all of your options before jumping to the last case scenario.
Doulas help in so many ways but just to name a few, research has shown:
💓50% reduction in cesareans
💓40% reduction in synthetic oxytocin use
💓60% reduction in epidural uses
💓25% less time in labor
💓40% reduction in forceps
💓Women were more likely to rate their childbirth experience positively
...so while our birth plan is still written in pencil, your doula is unchanging.
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