FAQs

What is a doula?

Doula comes from the greek work meaning “woman-servant.” The role of a doula is to support a laboring person throughout the process of birth by offering informational and preparative support before labor by answering questions and helping the birthing person create a birth plan, during labor and birth through physical and emotional comfort measures and guidance, and briefly after birth to process the experience with the new parent or parents.

When will I arrive?

I encourage all birthing people to labor on their own and with a birth partner before I arrive which we will go over this during prenatal visits. I come in when the birth partner can no longer be the only line of support for the birthing person. I will be in contact with you as soon as you contact me in the early stages of labor, and will arrive when I am needed.

Do you take on the role of the birth partner?

No, if the birthing person has a birth partner (whether romantic or a friend or family member who is the point person for them throughout labor), I support both of you throughout the process. If the birthing person does not have a primary birth partner, the doula role can become more active. I will not be taking the partner’s place; I encourage partners to be with the birthing person in every moment they are needed while I offer a keen eye, hand, and heart first and foremost to the laboring person and secondly their partner.

Do you do home births? Hospital births? Birthing center births?

Yes, yes, and yes!

Are you a midwife?

No, I am NOT medically trained. My role is to provide informational, physical, and emotional comfort before, during, and just after birth.