What is a Doula?
-A Doula is a professional who provides informational, physical, and emotional support for the expectant, laboring, or postpartum mother. Why hire a Doula?
-Proven Benefits of Doula Care:
* Reduces need for cesarean by 50%
* Reduces the need for forceps or vacuum extractor by 41%
* Reduces request for epidural by 60%
* Reduces dissatisfaction with birth by 33%
* Reduces ind
uction/oxytocin use by 40%
* Reduces length of labor
6 weeks after birth, mothers who had doulas were:
* Less anxious and depressed
* Had more confidence with baby
* More satisfied with partner
* More likely to be breastfeeding
As your Doula, what will I offer you?
-Atleast two prenatal visits to discuss your desires/expectations for birth, define and understand our expectations of one another, and provide you with useful
tools and information for labor and birth.
-Assisting you in writing your birth plan, to help you clarify your preferences for birth and explain the options that are available to you.
-Access to my small lending library of books and videos, about pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding, to support you in educating yourself.
-Continuous physical, emotional, and informational support for you and your partner for the duration of labor and birth, to help you achieve the birth you desire.
-Breastfeeding support immediately after birth to help your baby latch on properly and encourage the establishment of breastfeeding.
-One postpartum follow-up visit to celebrate the birth of your baby, review your birth story, and answer any questions you may have. Joy Owens is a mother to 5 children, all born at home supported by her husband, and with a skilled midwife attending. After her first homebirth, Joy realized that birth was a beautiful, wonderful moment to experience, and was not the excruciating horror she had heard so many women speak of, Joy enjoyed her labor, and from that moment wanted other women to know they could enjoy it as well! Little did she know, that excitement lit a spark inside her... years later she is a Doula, supporting women in their pregnancy, labor, birth, and breastfeeding journey, giving them the tools they need to educate themselves, so that they too can have a positive birth story to tell. "I am honored to be a part of every birth I am asked to attend. I am very passionate about pregnancy, labor, birth, and breastfeeding, I offer non-judgmental care and services, my goal is to help women to have the birth that is best for them. Call or email to set up a time to meet, for pricing on Doula services, and other info.
