25 Reasons Why We Love Our Doulas!

June 23, 2016 by Christina Hemming

1. The ultimate childbirth assistant for prenatal, labor, postnatal care, and beyond.
2. Your doula will help you, as well as your partner and family, with emotional support and physical assistance.
3. Strong, compassionate, caring, and deeply trustworthy.
4. It takes a village to raise children, and the same goes for childbirth.
5. The Doula Bag - full of essentials for you and your baby...Belly Band, yoga strap, and even things like a mirror to see the crowning head.
6. Doulas are well trained with the proper maternity care, childbirth classes, and have to get the proper certification every three years. Your doula is your qualified best girlfriend.
7. Valuable information, must reads, and must dos, like belly binding.
8. Antepartum doulas provide help for women with high-risk pregnancies.
9. Personal trainer, massage therapist, yogi, and cheerleader during childbirth.
10. Knows when you need a new position, bath, walk, or massage.
11. Breath work, meditation, and calming the energy.
12. DJ extraordinaire - because you may want your music switched from relaxing spa to soul to the Beatles during your labor.
13. Dad's love Doulas! Because you know they have no idea what they are doing.
14. No judgments when you poop, fart, or puke. In fact, she'll encourage you that this is progress during labor.
15. Someone continuously by your side. Because if you're in a hospital, the nurses and doctor will not.
16. Studies show that women with a doula have a shorter birth by 40 minutes.
17. 28% decrease in c-section births.
18. More facts - The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine claim that one of the most effective tools to improve labor and delivery outcomes is the continuous presence of support personnel, this being your doula.
19. Help with house cleaning, errands, and support for you and your family during your postpartum recovery.
20. Breastfeeding support, because it's actually pretty difficult. Proper instructions to coax the baby into a solid latch while your baby nurses.
21. Family life doulas provide long-term, ongoing support.
22. Help transition to new parent, back to work, and raising a family.
23. Families with a doula are far less likely to experience postpartum depression or the baby blues.
24. A Doula's attentive care services are now being offered during end of life as well.
25. Helping people cope during times of transition and need.

Please comment and share your doula super hero stories! We'd love to hear from you!

• The photo selection are a few of our favorites from The Huffington Post "58 Stunning Photo's That Show The Bond Between Moms And Doulas"