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DOULA\DOO-LUH\
A labor tour guide, calm space creator, hip-squeezer, ally and advocate, support person with all the right skills.
Doula Support
What is a doula?
A doula is a non-medical assistant, trained and experienced in childbirth who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother and her partner before, during and just after childbirth.
Throughout history, women all over the world have been supported during childbirth by other women. You can depend on us for encouragement, back rubs, advice, and emotional support.
How do doulas support birth?
Doulas are experienced in providing tried and true comfort measures specific to labor. These can include suggestions for changing positions, vocalization, rhythmic movement, guided relaxation with breathing and/or visualization, and specialized massage for labor. As your doulas, we also help you gather important information before and during labor so you are completely informed about all your options and can feel confident about your choices.
The most valuable thing a doula offers is continuous emotional support. This comes in the form of verbal encouragement and reassurance, a constant physical presence, and full trust in your power and ability to birth.
How do doulas support partners?
Your partner always plays the most important role in loving and caring for you. We will be there to help support your partner through the birth journey, modeling specific comfort measures, offering reassurance and being a teammate in the big role of labor companion. Many partners we have worked with have shared that the presence of a doula allowed them to show up more fully throughout the process.
Some women have a whole birthing team, including friends, their mother, sister, grandmother, father, etc. Whoever you want as part of your birth team will be honored and welcomed. We will all work together to ensure that you feel joyful and well supported throughout your journey.
We are here to support you.
FAQs
Do you support all births?
From hospital, birth center, or home birth, to unmedicated to planned epidural, inductions and cesareans, we will meet you exactly where you are at and help you to achieve your goals. We believe all approaches to childbirth matter and highly value the importance of non-judgmental support.
What is your focus?
Our focus is helping families feel confident and prepared through Birth Doula Support, Breastfeeding Support and Postpartum Support, and Placenta Encapsulation. Our experience and expertise shows us that when families are prepared and supported, they can move through their journey in a way that fits their needs, and they can conquer parenting in a way that helps them feel empowered. When you have the tools you need to accomplish the birth and postpartum recovery you have imagined, nothing is out of reach. Additionally our focus is justice, presence, confidentiality, professionalism, experience and compassion.
Where do you attend births?
A Family Affair Birth Center
Home Birth with Attending Midwife
Kaiser - San Diego and San Marcos
Palomar Medical Center
Scripps Hospitals - Encinitas, La Jolla, Hillcrest
UCSD - Hillcrest and Jacobs
Sharp Hospitals - Mary Birch and Grossmont
Tourmaline Birth Center
“I had the most wonderful experience working with them for both birth doula services and postpartum doula care. They are vastly knowledgeable, incredibly gifted at what they do and have the most warm and beautiful personalities. I cannot recommend them enough.”
— JESSA C.