Why Hire a Doula?

A doula is a labor support professional. Doulas are trained and experienced in childbirth. The doula's role is to provide physical, emotional, and informational support to women and their partners during labor and birth. Doulas specialize in non-medical skills and do not perform clinical tasks. The doula's goal is to help the woman have a safe and satisfying childbirth as the woman defines it. When a doula is present during childbirth, the following have been found:

• Reduction in analgesia by 35%
• Reduction in oxytocin augmentation by 71%
• Reduction in cesarean births by 57%
• Reduction in length of labor by an average of 98 minutes
• Reduction in epidural use by 16%