Doulas help birthing families achieve empowered and satisfying beginnings. They educate, ease the transition to parenthood (or parenthood again), and provide the support necessary to free the family to embrace their personal experience with reduced worry and fear, and with fewer interventions.
Dads and partners benefit greatly from a doula’s presence. A doula allows the partner to support the birthing woman in the way that works best for the both of them and to enter into the experience of the birth of the baby without the stress and worry of remembering everything from childbirth education, and without the discomfort of avoiding breaks (bathroom, food, naps in a long labor). A doula can guard the couple’s laboring unity when all is well by giving privacy and protecting the space, and can discover the next comfort measure that will serve the laboring woman before stepping back to let the partner meet the woman’s need.
For details on how doulas reduce c-sections and other interventions, as well as increase overall satisfaction, follow these links.