Ten Tiny Toes

A doula, or a professional labor assistant, provides physcial and emotional support to a woman and her partner during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.

A Birth Doula Can:

* Help reduce negative feelings about one's childbirth experience

* Help reduce the need for pitocin (a labor-inducing drug), forceps or vacuum extraction and cesareans

*Help reduce the mother's request for pain medication and/or epidurals

*Help families experience shorter labors with fewer complications

*Help facilitate initial breastfeeding

* so much more!