Do You Need a Doula?

Even with a caring partner, family support, and the care of a doctor or midwife, will he or she:

• Come to your home and labor with you until it's time to go to the hospital or birthing center and then stay with you continuously until the baby is born?
• Provide advanced labor techniques such as massage or acupressure?
• Provide several prenatal visits in your home?
• Help you develop a "birth plan"?
• Provide the encouragement you need while you are in transition and when the baby is being born?
• Take notes during labor and provide you with a written record of birth?
• Take photographs of you and your support person(s) during the labor and with your new baby?
• Help you with breastfeeding?