Doula Care
TLC Birthing Services
Serving Houston and surrounding areas
Cell 979-777-7344
Home 713-856-6131
E-mail:
midwifenanci@att.net
TLC - a personal level of care
Doula Care
Pregnant
women choosing hospital birth can greatly benefit from retaining doula
care or "birth coaching". Doula care provides you with continuous
physical and emotional care for the laboring mother and her partner.
Studies have proven a dramatic decrease in epidural and cesarean
section rates, usage of pitocin and forceps and usage of other pain
medications, as well as many other benefits for mother and baby when
doula care is provided for mothers throughout their labor and birth.
Doula care helps pregnant women and their families formulate what is
important to them during labor and birth, and work cooperatively
within the birth team to help realize these goals.
Recent studies
involving over 1000 women demonstrate that doula care results in:
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Shorter labors
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Reduced need for
pain medication
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Fewer episiotomies
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Fewer cesaerean
sections
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Improved neonatal
outcomes
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Better
mother-infant interaction
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Greater maternal
satisfaction
As your Doula, I help you write your birth plan. In addition to
assisting with the labor and delivery, I also help with the
beginning of breast feeding. After you are home from the hospital, I
come for one post partum visit.
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