- What is a Doula?
- Why Have One?
- Doulas & Partners
- Hospital & Home
The word doula comes from the Greek word meaning, "a woman who serves." Doulas are experienced labor assistants who provide non-medical, physical, emotional and informed choice support in prenatal care, during labor and birth and during the postpartum period. Inanna Doula Care doulas provide the following professional labor support and more:
Inanna Doula Care Doulas Provide:
- Continuous emotional support
- Massage
- Acupressure
- Tools for starting up a slow or stalled labor
- Tools for helping to turn posterior babies
- Pain coping
- Relaxation
- Support for partner
- Breastfeeding support and education
- Education
- Normalize experience
- Encouragement
- Non medical alternatives to interventions
- Resources