DOULA SERVICES

• Prenatal and Postpartum visits
• Lending Library
• Phone and e-mail Support
• Help in preparing a birth plan
• On-call 24 hours a day, starting 2 weeks before due date.
• Emotional, physical and educational support.
• Comfort measures during labor.
• Assistance with initial breastfeeding.
• Taking pictures for new family, if requested

DOULA SERVICE FEES

Birth doula services are a flat rate, which will cover prenatal visits, labor and birth, and postpartum visit.

I will not turn down a client based on her/their ability to pay. I believe that every woman who wants a doula should have a doula. If you are interested, please contact me and we can make some arrangement.

**Contact me for a no obligation consultation**
Email: wendy@wendoula.com 
Phone: 574-278-6148

Recent Study: Effect on cesarean delivery rates with continuous labor support for middle-class couples.

A new randomized controlled trial of continuous labor support for middle-class couples looks at the effect on cesarean delivery rates and found significant benefits. From the abstract:

CONCLUSIONS: For middle-class women laboring with the support of their male partner, the continuous presence of a doula during labor significantly decreased the likelihood of cesarean delivery and reduced the need for epidural analgesia. Women and their male partners were unequivocal in their positive opinions about laboring with the support of a doula.

In fact, the study found that “the doula group had a significantly lower cesarean delivery rate than the control group (13.4% vs 25.0%)”.

You can read the abstract at:
http://highwire.stanford.edu/cgi/medline/pmid;18507579