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“I was unable to remember anything from my birth class about positions and techniques for increasing comfort. My doula intuitively gave me what I needed during each contractions.

It was like magic!”
–Amy Shimmick, mother

Why have a doula?

Studies have shown that having a doula may decrease:

• Requests for epidurals by 60%
• Cesarean birth by 50%
• Pitocin use by 40%
• Narcotics use by 30%
• Forceps by 40%
• Length of labor by 25%
• Reduces the cost by reducing medical interventions and shortening labor