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Coastal
Bend Birth Connection, Inc.
Labor
Support, Birth and Postpartum Services
Darla
Cassel, C.L.D., Doula/Childbirth Assistant
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Why are
Doulas Becoming the Newest Members of Today's Maternity Care Teams?
A doula...
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Recognizes birth as a key life experience that the mother will remember all her life ...
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Understands the physiology of birth and the emotional needs of a woman in labor ...
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Assists a woman and her partner in preparing for and carrying out their plans for the birth ...
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Stays by the side of the laboring woman throughout the entire labor ...
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Provides emotional support, practical comfort measures, an objective viewpoint and assistance to the woman in attaining the information she needs to make good decisions ...
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Facilitates communication between the laboring woman, her partner, and her clinical care providers ...
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Perceives her role as someone who nurtures and protects the woman's memory of her birth experience ...
The acceptance of doulas in maternity care is growing rapidly with the recognition of their important contribution to the improved physical outcomes and emotional well-being of mothers and infants.
A study conducted at Jefferson Davis Hospital in Houston published by JAMA involving over 1,000 women in labor demonstrates that the presence of a PLA (professional labor assistant; also known as a birth doula, labor coach, or monitrice) results in:
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Decreased cesarean rates by 50 percent.
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Decreased length of labor by 25 percent.
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Decreased pitocin induction and augmentation by 40 percent.
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Decreased deed for pain medications by 30 percent.
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Decreased need for forceps by 40 percent.
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Decreased request for epidurals by 60 percent.
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Less episiotomies and vacuum extractions.
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Improved neonatal outcomes.
My
name is Darla Cassel
Why
I became a doula
What
is a doula and what is her role?
What
to expect from your doula
Daddies
and doulas
Our
philosophy of birth
Excerpt:
"Women
find doulas helpful."
Why
are doulas becoming the newest members of today's maternity care teams?
Corpus Christi Caller Times Article - "Mothering
the Mother"
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For
more information, please contact: Coastal Bend Birth Connection, Inc., Darla
Cassel, president,
P.O.
Box 2267, Rockport, TX 78381-2667, 361-994-6386, SWBYP Corpus Christi.
ibreastfeedinfo@gmail.com
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