Why Hire a Labor Assistant?

As a Professional Labor Assistant (i.e. doula), it is my desire to help families through their unique and personal, life-changing birth and to support their informed decision making. Especially in the hospital, birth can become a routine event. It is my goal to make sure that my clients feel that the birth of their child is individualized to reflect their family’s desires and beliefs. My job is to facilitate support of the laboring mother, allowing her partner and family to be involved as fully as possible. I also offer myself as a resource to encourage a healthy, educated pregnancy, a positive birth experience, and a satisfying postpartum period.

Benefits of Professional Labor Support

Labor support provided by caregivers who come to the labor setting expressly to provide this care appears to offer women more benefits than labor support provided by nurses or other clinical caregivers from that setting (Hodnett and colleagues 2004, Simkin and O’Hara 2002, Scott and colleagues 1999). In the most recent and largest review, when compared to women who did not receive continuous support, those who received continuous labor support from someone present just for this purpose were

• 26% less likely to give birth by cesarean section
• 41% less likely to give birth with vacuum extraction or forceps
• 28% less likely to use any pain medications and
• 33% less likely to be dissatisfied with or negatively rate their birth experience (Hodnett and colleagues 2004). Childbirth Connection

Services Provided:

• Free consultation
• Discount for Prepayment before 36 weeks
• Insurance Billing
• Two prenatal visits
• 24 hour on call beginning at 37 weeks until your birth
• One postpartum visit
• A complete keepsake Labor Record
• Personalized support for your pregnancy and birth