A DoulaNatur Childbirth Professional's role is to encourage parents to become active health consumers for themselves and their baby.
- Encourage parents to take responsibility for their own actions.
- Educate parents about pregnancy, birth, lactation and parenting through reading, conversations, classes, and meetings.
- Emphasize that the parents know their baby best
- Help parents become attune to their baby´s behaviour
- Help parents understand their baby´s needs.
- Help parents understand the difference between parenting issues and medical advice.
- Present facts to help parents find options suiting their needs and goals.
The research has shown that having a doula at your birth can make a real difference to the outcome.
• Reduced the overall cesarean rate by 50%
• Reduced the length of labor by 25% • Reduced oxytocin use by 40%
• Reduced the use of pain medication by 30%
• Reduced forceps deliveries by 40%
• Reduced requests for epidural pain medication by 60%
• Reduced incidences of maternal fever
• Resulted in higher rates of breastfeeding
• Resulted in more positive maternal assessments of maternal confidence
• Resulted in more positive maternal assessments of maternal and newborn health
• Resulted in decreased rates of postpartum depression
