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Providing the personal care and support women need during labor and birth.

What is a doula?

The word “doula” comes from the ancient Greek and means “one who serves” or “servant woman”. 
Today the word represents a professionally trained woman who is experienced in childbirth and provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to the mother and her partner before, during and after childbirth. 

A doula:

  • Shares her knowledge of the physiology of pregnancy and birth and the emotional needs of a woman in labor.
  • Gets to know you  prenatally helping you identify what is important to you about your birth.
  • Attends the birth, day or night.
  • Offers suggestions for coping with labor, and helps labor unfold as quickly and easily as possible.
  • Works together with the mother's partner to provide support to the mother, and suggest ways the partner can help.

What are the benefits to having a doula?

  • Studies show that doula support during birth can result in:
    50% reduction in caesarean section rate
    25% decrease in length of labor
    30% decrease in use of forceps
    40% decrease in use of pitocin
    60% decrease in use of epidural anesthesia
    30% decrease in use of narcotic pain medication

 

Areas We Serve:

Moscow, ID
Pullman, WA
Latah County
Whitman County

Testamonials from women we have served:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contact Us, Palouse Doula Association, (208) 882-0178