Benefits of hiring a Doula include

• 25% shorter labor

• 33% less likely to be dissatisfied with their birth experience

• 36% reduction in use of pain medications

• 40% reduction in pitocin use

• 50% reduction in forceps delivery

• 52% reduction in cesarean rate

• 60% reduction in epidural requests

After six weeks mothers were

• less anxious and depressed

• more confident with baby

• 23% more likely to be breastfeeding

Click here to learn more about how birth doulas and nurses share complimentary roles.

Click here to compare recent statistics on attended versus unattended births.

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