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A professional guide providing continuous support during one of life’s most transformative experiences.
Like travel guides in a foreign country, birth and postpartum doulas help support new families through the life changing experience of having a baby!
Whether it’s a family’s first baby or their tenth, a doula can help make the birth and postpartum experience better. Today, a doula is defined as follows:
Doula: a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to their client before, during and shortly after childbirth to help them achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible.
Countless scientific trials examining doula care demonstrate remarkably improved physical and psychological outcomes for both pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people and their baby. Doulas have a positive impact on the well-being of the entire family.
Dive into our site to learn more about this incredible, growing field! DONA International has been training professional doulas for over 30 years, and we’d love to share all we’ve learned with you.
Birth doulas provide continuous support during labor and delivery, offering comfort measures, advocacy, and emotional support to birthing individuals and their partners.
Postpartum doulas support families during the critical weeks and months after birth, offering guidance on newborn care, feeding support, and helping families adjust to their new roles.
Doulas help make birth better! They nurture, support and offer expert guidance for families during their pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum time.
DONA-certified doulas are trained to provide evidence-based, ethical, client-centered support. Certification must be earned and maintained through continued education and evaluation, ensuring professionalism and compassionate care throughout the birth or postpartum experience.
DONA International is the world’s leader in evidence-based doula training, certification and continuing education. Learn why DONA doulas are the world’s best!
How do you hire a doula? What questions should you ask a doula before you choose them as part of your birth team? Learn more about best practices in the doula field.
