What is a Doula - DONA International
What is a doula? 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.
Become a Birth Doula – Certification - DONA International
DONA International offers the world's leading birth doula training and certification process. Join thousands of other DONA certified birth doulas around the world!
Benefits of a Doula - DONA International
Postpartum doulas are trained to understand what new babies – and new parents – truly need. The doula helps with soothing techniques, offers lactation or bottle feeding support, and explains normal newborn behavior and postpartum recovery expectations.
Doula Training and Doula Certification – DONA International
2021年12月16日 · DONA International is the leader in evidence-based doula training, certification and continuing education. Our doulas are the world's best!
Become a Doula - DONA International
It’s an exciting time to become a doula! DONA International has been working hard for 32 years to help doulas integrate within our birth and postpartum systems. Today, there are more families hiring DONA doulas worldwide than ever before.
How to Hire a Doula – Questions to Ask - DONA International
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.
Studies show doula support can help: • reduce postpartum mood disorders • improve breastfeed-ing success • reduce interventions • lower cesarean birth rates • improve health outcomes Hands on practical support – It’s all hands on deck during birth and with a newborn. Doulas provide physical comfort measures as well as practical ...
About DONA International
DONA International promotes the highest quality perinatal support for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people and their families by setting the standard for doula education and training, and by advocating the research-based benefits of doula care.
You Know You Should Be a Doula If… - DONA International
2019年5月17日 · Being a doula means improving the birth and postpartum experience one family at a time. If this is something that has always been on your bucket list, the time to take the next step may very well be now!
Doula Scope of Practice and Ethics - DONA International
The DONA International Doula Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics proves to help our doulas, families and medical practitioners know exactly what doulas do and what doulas do not do. The guidelines include very specific information about the doula’s role in regard to providing emotional, physical, practical, and informational support.