both medically and emotionally for you, your partner, but even more importantly, for your baby.
Evidence-based studies express the following results from obtaining a labor doula:
- 50% reduction of cesarean delivery
- 25% reduction in length of labor
- 40% reduction in the use of pitocin
- 30% reduction in the need for pain medication
- 40% reduction in use of forceps
- 60% reduction in request for epidurals
- Mothers felt birth experience was more positive
- Mother’s self image improved
- Mothers felt babies were healthier
- Mothers felt relationship with husband/partner was improved
- Mothers felt they had a higher degree of control over their birth than mothers not attended by a labor doula
- Increased success in the initiation of breastfeeding
- Decreased rate of postpartum depression
Additional information about labor doula services can be found throughout this website and on the following links:
CAPPA Position Paper, Evidence-Based Labor Doula Care
What Do Doulas Deliver?
Doula Revolution
5 Reasons To Hire A Doula
Why Hire A Doula?
Dads and Doulas