10 Reasons to Hire a Doula
Giving birth is a momentous occasion that can be both exciting and daunting. A doula is a trained and experienced professional who provides physical, emotional, and educational support to ease the process and soothe laboring mothers. Your doula’s training provides practical knowledge about what is needed during birth, and her experience over many births instills an intuitive sense of what will help you most.
Doulas have supported women through birth for centuries because the relationship works. Studies show that having a doula present:
- Reduced the overall cesarean rate by 50%
- Decreased the length of labor by 25%
- Lowered the use of pain medication by 30%
- Reduced forceps deliveries by 40%
- Reduced the number of days newborns spent in NICU
- Increased positive maternal assessments of the newborn
- Lowered rates of postpartum depression
- Increased rates of breastfeeding
- Increased satisfaction of parent/ infant bonding
- Reduced over all stress and anxiety during the birthing process