As your doula I will:
- Meet with you for two prenatal visits to discover what preferences you have for your wonderful birth
- Help you discover what types of things will help you to relax and find comfort in your birthing time including:
- Positions for laboring and birthing
- Massage
- Aromatherapy
- Music
- And other techniques which I may perform or model for your birthing partner to perform during your birthing time
- Offer information about the many medical interventions commonly offered (or even done without informing the mother first) in hospital births; or if your are planning a home or birth center birth I will offer information about the choices related to those
- Attend your birth to provide all of the physical and emotional support you need, as well as serve as an information resource for any unexpected decisions that may come up
- Remain at the birthing place until breastfeeding is established and no additional support is needed
- Meet with you after the birth for a postpartum visit to offer emotional support in the transition of caring for a newborn
- And most importantly I will support you in all of your decisions relating to the wonderful birth of your baby, giving you the confidence necessary to create a memory of a wonderful birth