Below are some of the benefits.
Investing in your birth is an investment aiding in your mental and emotional health. We help you:
- Affirm you!
- Boost your confidence (self-esteem, body image, reduce doubt, more likely to advocate for self)
- Trust self and your team
- Increase your mental and emotional health (during each trimester, including postpartum)
- Reduce anxiety and grief
- Unpack trauma
This is not religion based, but instead life practices helping you to tap into your femininity. We help you:
- Tap into your divinity
- Trust your intuition
- Learn the science of birth and parenting
- Comfort measures
- Improved relaxation
- Increased movement
- Reduces the use of medicine (epidural, pitocin, etc.)
- Lowers the chances of having a cesarean birth or increases the opportunity of having a VBAC
- Increased movement
To my Aboriginal (Black, Brown, and Indigenous) sisters: you need a doula more than any other woman.
This does not mean that other women do not need a doula.
We think everyone woman needs a doula, but let’s be honest, we are not treated right in the healthcare system.
Read Every Mother Counts article, “How Many Black, Brown, & Indigenous People Have To Die Giving Birth” to learn more.
As Latham Thomas says, “Doulas help see through the matrix.”