Doula
noun
A person who helps a woman before, during and after her childbirth, offering emotional and practical support.
Having a doula made Jenny feel more relaxed and confident about giving birth.
Often appears as...
- hire a doula
- doula support
noun
A person who helps a woman before, during and after her childbirth, offering emotional and practical support.
Having a doula made Jenny feel more relaxed and confident about giving birth.
Often appears as...
- hire a doula
- doula support
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Support
A doula offers comfort and encouragement to reduce stress during childbirth.
My doula helped me stay calm during contractions.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-medical Role
Doulas provide support but don't perform medical tasks, which are done by doctors or midwives.
The doula reassured her, while the midwife monitored the baby's heartbeat.
Pro Tip 3/3Before and After
Understand that a doula supports before birth with preparation and after with newborn care.
The doula offered tips on breastfeeding after the baby arrived.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Support
A doula offers comfort and encouragement to reduce stress during childbirth.
My doula helped me stay calm during contractions.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-medical Role
Doulas provide support but don't perform medical tasks, which are done by doctors or midwives.
The doula reassured her, while the midwife monitored the baby's heartbeat.
Pro Tip 3/3Before and After
Understand that a doula supports before birth with preparation and after with newborn care.
The doula offered tips on breastfeeding after the baby arrived.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Support
A doula offers comfort and encouragement to reduce stress during childbirth.
My doula helped me stay calm during contractions.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-medical Role
Doulas provide support but don't perform medical tasks, which are done by doctors or midwives.
The doula reassured her, while the midwife monitored the baby's heartbeat.
Pro Tip 3/3Before and After
Understand that a doula supports before birth with preparation and after with newborn care.
The doula offered tips on breastfeeding after the baby arrived.
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Video examples
How racism harms...
For the last decade as a doula turned journalist and blogger, I've been trying to raise the alarm about just how different the experiences of women of color, but particularly black women, are when it comes to pregnancy and birth in the US. But when I tell people about these appalling statistics,
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How These Women Are...
for by women of color with this idea in mind the doula training was insufficient in meeting the needs of women of color more broadly that it really didn't speak to anything cultural we provide comprehensive support
Video examples
How racism harms...
For the last decade as a doula turned journalist and blogger, I've been trying to raise the alarm about just how different the experiences of women of color, but particularly black women, are when it comes to pregnancy and birth in the US. But when I tell people about these appalling statistics,
Video examples
How These Women Are...
for by women of color with this idea in mind the doula training was insufficient in meeting the needs of women of color more broadly that it really didn't speak to anything cultural we provide comprehensive support
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Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
The idea of windows, that's so symbolic to me within labor. And I'm always opening windows during a birth. If someone's been in labor all night and they're exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.
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Margherita Missoni
Italian Designer
I've been eating a porridge of millet for breakfast, something that my doula recommended I eat. It doesn't taste that great, but it's supposed to be really nourishing for the baby, and you're not supposed to eat any gluten when you're pregnant. I've been making pancakes out of it and add berries.
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Domino Kirke
English Musician
My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.
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Domino Kirke
English Musician
I'm not like, 'I'm a famous doula.' I'm a doula. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma around 'You're the singer; You're the actor' - we have to be able to do more than one thing.
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Domino Kirke
English Musician
I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn't get the support I'd hoped for, and that changed everything. That's why I became a doula. There's such a need.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
My son's birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I'm not close to my mom, and I don't have a lot of people in New York.
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Katie Lowes
American Actress
I wanted a doula because it's my first baby, and I want to be able to call her when I'm going into labor so she can come over and help us go through the early stage.
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Domino Kirke
English Musician
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
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Margherita Missoni
Italian Designer
I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!
Quote examples
Emily Oster
American Economist
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
The idea of windows, that's so symbolic to me within labor. And I'm always opening windows during a birth. If someone's been in labor all night and they're exhausted and sort of over it, opening a window or drawing a curtain can change the game. And sometimes the doula is the first one to suggest it.
Quote examples
Margherita Missoni
Italian Designer
I've been eating a porridge of millet for breakfast, something that my doula recommended I eat. It doesn't taste that great, but it's supposed to be really nourishing for the baby, and you're not supposed to eat any gluten when you're pregnant. I've been making pancakes out of it and add berries.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
My family realized I was going to do birth work and then music; they were like, 'What's a doula? This is not what you were meant to do!' And I was like, 'Everyone thinks they can only do one thing.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
I'm not like, 'I'm a famous doula.' I'm a doula. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma around 'You're the singer; You're the actor' - we have to be able to do more than one thing.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
I was always interested in becoming a midwife. Then, at my own birth, I didn't get the support I'd hoped for, and that changed everything. That's why I became a doula. There's such a need.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
My son's birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I'm not close to my mom, and I don't have a lot of people in New York.
Quote examples
Katie Lowes
American Actress
I wanted a doula because it's my first baby, and I want to be able to call her when I'm going into labor so she can come over and help us go through the early stage.
Quote examples
Domino Kirke
English Musician
In my family, it was always encouraged to become a creative person. I became a doula instead, then I married an actor, and my sisters became famous almost overnight.
Quote examples
Margherita Missoni
Italian Designer
I go to bed early, and normally before I do, I have a tea - it's a special tea that my doula gave me, and it takes about 25 minutes to make!
Quote examples
Emily Oster
American Economist
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
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