Doula Support Quotes

Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.

I think it's important to balance out what people see today as normal birth, in a hospital room, flat on their backs, usually with an IV and a fetal monitor hooked up to them. That does happen, but other things are possible.

[On home births:] In a house where there had been three people, there were now four, although no one had come in the door.

Women are being told to get midwives [in UK] because there's not enough room and there's not enough pain medicine at the hospitals.

I believe every woman has the right to any birth experience she wants, wherever she chooses and with whatever care provider she's comfortable. It's about doing your own due diligence and finding the best option for you.

I feel I've learned a lot about [experience of giving birth], and I think it's amazing. Men and women who are ob-gyns are pretty amazing.

When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

The cause I am most passionate about is natural birthing. I had my son at home, and it was the most primal, intuitive, empowering, and loving experience I've ever had.

I feel like doulas put the ball back in the mom's court. They trust you to normalize the high drama.