If someone told you there was something you could do to have:
- Fewer requests for epidurals (up to 60%)
- Shorter Labor (25% - 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours)
- Reduction in cesarean rates (up to 50%)
- Reduction in oxytocin/pitocin use
- Neonatal hospitalization and rate of complications reduced
- Fewer forceps/vacuum deliveries
- Increased rate of breastfeeding
- Reduction in postpartum depression
Wouldn't you do whatever you could to get that something? |
Doula's have been proven to do exactly that!
It's wonderful and amazing to me that something as simple as having a trained professional providing coninuous one on one support and advocacy for the birthing family (both Mom & Dad!) can have such incredible results.
Certainly women can have a babies without a doula, but if you think that your birth experience would be less painful, less risky and more memorable with one, what in the world would stop you from having one? |
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References
1.) Kennell, J.H.; Klaus, M.H.; McGrath, S.K.; Robertson, S.S.; Hinkley, C.W. "Continuous Emotional Support during Labor in a U.S. Hospital." Journal of the American Medical Association 265(1991):2197-2201
2.) Sosa, R.; Kennell, J.H.; Robertson, S.; Urrutia, J. "The Effect of a Supportive Companion on Perinatal Problems, Length of Labor and Mother-Infant Interaction." New England Journal of Medicine 303(1980):597-600 |
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