A postpartum doula services are designed to be able to assist in the physical and emotional care of mothers and families in the daysand nights, weeks and months following the birth/adoption of a child. Postpartum doulas are professionals experienced in:
* Assists in the care physically and emotionally of the mother and infant * Helps with breastfeeding, ongoing lactation support and education, bottlefeeding and assists with breast pumps * Provide evidence-based articles and research on various infant & postpartum mother issues * Non-judgmental support for each parenting style and family dynamic * Helps in house management with light cleaning, simple meal preparations, laundry, running errands and organizing * Nurtures
Elena Vogel is a birth doula and lactation consultant that is located in Los Angeles, California. Her birth doula services include 2-3 prenatal visits, prenatal binder, unlimited phone/email support, 24 hour on call availability, labor support at the time of the birth, assistance with initial breastfeeding, plus more. Elena Vogel also conducts 2-3 postpartum visits. Elena Vogel is a certified birth doula through DONA International. Since 2002, she has assisted more than 300 births at hospitals, homes, and birth-centers. Elena Vogel has become a certified lactation educator in 2005. Elena Vogel is also home birth midwife assistant. Thus, she has attended a myriad of home deliveries since 2005. In the spring of 2011, Elena Vogel then completed
Northeast Doulas is a full-service doula agency that is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their doula package includes an interview with the doula to make sure they'd be a good fit, 1-2 prenatal visits to talk about their plans, the client’s "dream birth", help with any fears the client may have surrounding labor, and to make sure the client’s partner feels comfortable with the doula’s presence, plus more. The principal of Northeast Doulas, Megan Sharbono is a certified birth doula, certified lactation educator counselor, and certified placenta preparer.
Peaceful Beginnings Birth Services is a full-service doula agency that is located in Sacramento, California. Peaceful Beginnings Birth Services provides birth doula services, Birthing From Within® classes, and postpartum doula services. This doula agency offers prenatal visits, labor support, and breastfeeding and postpartum support. The doula of Peaceful Beginnings Birth Services, Chelsea Fredlund is a DONA International and Birthing From Within Certified Birth Doula.
Annika the Doula is a full-service doula agency that is located in Northeast, Minneapolis. Annika the Doula is serving the Twin Cities metro area. Their doula services include 2 prenatal visits, unlimited prenatal phone, text and e-mail support, continuous emotional, physical and informational support during the client’s labor, 1-2 postpartum visits, and placenta encapsulation. Annika is a DONA-certified birth doula.
Doulas of Orlando is a birth doula agency that is located in Orlando, Florida. Doulas of Orlando is working for the best birth experience. Their services include doula packages, childbirth education, and placenta encapsulation. Doulas of Orlando offers maternity classes, maternity and birth photography, and 3D/4D ultrasounds. Their doula is M. Luna Jauregui, CD(DONA), CLC. M. Luna Jauregui, CD(DONA), CLC is bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. Her qualifications as a doula include Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula via DONA international, Rebozo Certified under Instructor Gena Kirby, Sacred Bengkung belly binding certification, and more. M. Luna Jauregui, CD(DONA), CLC has been a Healthy Children Certified Lactation Counselor in
Birth Hands Doula Service is a full-service doula agency that is located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Birth Hands Doula Service serves the Piedmont area of North Carolina including Greensboro, Burlington, Hillsborough, Chapel Hill, and Durham. Their goal is to render a well rounded, woman-centered care throughout the entire pregnancy, birth, and early postpartum. This care constitutes education, advocacy, emotional, and physical support for the women, the parents, their families, and their desired support team. Their services include labor and birth support, birth plan consultation, birth partner support, recording the client’s birth story, blessingway or baby shower celebration, and postpartum support services. The doula of Birth Hands
Radiant Goddess Birth Services is a birth doula agency that is located in Asheville, North Carolina. Radiant Goddess Birth Services offers birth doula services, placenta and postpartum services, and prenatal consultation. As their birth doula, they will render birth education and preparation, birth planning, comfort measures, suggest position change, provide reassurance and encouragement, assist the client with negotiation of her preferences for birth if what she wants and the hospital wants differ. The methods for encapsulation they conduct include the raw method, wherein the placenta is not heated in any way before dehydration, as well as basic heated/steamed, a traditional Chinese medicine inspired method. The doula of Radiant Goddess Birth
Carolina Birth and Wellness is a full-service doula agency that is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Carolina Birth and Wellness offers doula support, massage therapy, and infant massage classes to families. Their doula services include birth doula, postpartum doula, sibling doula, birth planning consultation, belly casting, belly binding, and operation special delivery. Carolina Birth and Wellness supports all the families in North Carolina, including the LGBT communities.
Post Partum care is generally short as the mother and infant are taken care of by the nurse midwife at the birthing center for 24 hours after the birth. In birthing centers, all postpartum care is administered in the patient’s room where the child was also given birth (Fisher 1996). After the child is born, the mother is always eager to begin breastfeeding. A few hours after the birth, when the mother is able, family members and close friends come bearing food and gifts for the mother and child. Gifts of natural herbal remedies and teas are also given to the mother to aid her health. The birth of children is very common in Amish communities with women bearing, on average,
Providing an effective care and support to the patient and for their babies during labour
To care for and monitor the progress of the mother in the postnatal period and to give all necessary advice to the mother on infant care to enable her
The postpartum period is about going through change and transition from a woman to a new mother. This is a time where mothers restore muscle tone and connective tissue in the body after the birth of the baby. Although there is a dramatic change during the postpartum period, women’s body is nonetheless not fully stored to pre-pregnant physiology until about 6 months post-delivery (Osailan, 6). At this time, women need to receive special health and social support to prevent problems such as postpartum depression. During this period, culture plays a major role in the way a woman perceives and prepares for her birthing experience. In fact, the notions of birth and postnatal care vary considerably with cultural beliefs and traditional practices. Each culture has its own values, beliefs and practices related to pregnancy and birth (Osailan,1). In the United States, after a short hospital stay, moms and babies are sent home because it is expected for mothers to heal within 42 days after giving birth. Whereas in other societies like Mexico, the postpartum recovery is active long enough until the new mother is fully healed (Brenhouse). In the article, “Why Are America’s Postpartum Practices So Rough on New Mothers?” by Hilary Brenhouse, the author states, “With these rituals comes an acknowledgment, familial and federal, that the woman needs relief more at this time than at any other—especially if she has a career to return to—and that it takes weeks, sometimes months, to properly
Next, a non-hospital birth usually has midwifery or Doula. Midwifery is a profession in which providers take care of pregnant women during her labor and birth and during the postpartum period. Assisting the mother with the child after it is born. According to “Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America,” midwives attends the majority of births. Midwives are qualified for routine deliveries and minor medical emergencies; often operating as part of a medical term. As Cara Muhlhahn, a certified nurse midwife stated in “Business of Being Born,” she would rather be in the home of the patient so she would feel comfortable. And most women who have midwives are comfortable because they are in the privacy of their own home giving birth to their child and they feel empowered instead of the powerless vibe in a hospital. A Doula, on the other hand, does not have to make clinical decisions. Doulas offer emotional support and manage pain using massage, acupressure, and birthing positions; making it easier for the mother to cope with her complications. According to “Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier and Healthier Birth,” a Doula is a Greek word that literally means a woman who has experience that can help other women. Klaus Kennell and others who have researched the effects of the doula's presence during childbirth have come to define the term as a woman with experience in childbirth who will give the laboring mother emotional, physical and
, by definition, begins 12 months after the final menses and is characterized by a continuation of vasomotor symptoms and by urogenital symptoms such as vaginal dryness and dyspareunia.
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a significantly life-threatening complication that can occur after both vaginal and caesarean births (Ricci & Kyle, 2009). Simpson and Creehan (2008) define PPH as the amount of blood loss after vaginal birth, usually more than 500mL, or after a caesarean birth, normally more than 1000mL. However, the definition is arbitrary, attributed to the fact that loss of blood during birth is intuitive and widely inaccurate (Ricci & Kyle, 2009). In line with this, studies have suggested that health care providers consistently underestimate actual blood loss, thus, an objective definition of PPH would be any amount of bleeding that exposes a mother in hemodynamic jeopardy (Ricci &