What Is a Doula and What Does She Do?

There are a lot of people who have heard the word doula but they don’t have any idea regarding the meaning of this word. The word is used to refer to a woman who helps to comfort other women giving birth as there is a belief that women understand what their colleague go through and therefore they know how to comfort them when in great pain. The service that is offered by a doula was very common some years back where people used to give birth at home.

Although it is still being practiced even today there are a high number of women who are still using the services of these professionals and the ones who are using doula are women who prefer to have a natural birth at home. There are many duties that a doula have and below is some of the task that these professionals carryout

Top 4 roles of doula to women who give birth at home

• The main important task of a doula is to assist in the preparation of giving birth to a pregnant woman. They help a pregnant woman psychologically by trying to be a close person that this woman can depend on during this time. They offer support to this woman and mostly they help the soon to be mother to gain strength and not panic when almost giving birth.
• They also are present to help a woman giving birth to go through this procedure in the easiest way without great pain by massaging their back a well as offering this women a shoulder to lean on during this period.
• They also offer some of the best pain relief services through techniques that they use to as giving birth the natural way can sometime be very painful. But, with their mastered way of relieving pain such a massage, delivering position as well as relaxation and breathing techniques the soon to be mother can have ales painful delivery at home.
• These professionals also help the women who have just given birth to have a warm relation with their family members and therefore help the other members of the family to know exactly what kind of support they should offer the mother who has just given birth to a baby.

Those are some of the major roles of a doula but there are other tasks that these people help whenever they are hired to offer their services. It is important for everyone to know that a doula do not offer medical help but they can offer advice on various condition that a pregnant mother may be going through. They have a lot of information of giving birth and they can help a woman to choose the method that they think that they will be comfortable in giving birth.