Learning about Birth Doulas
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.6 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2015
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Often considered as personal birth fairies, doulas can significantly improve birth experiences. What are the proven benefits and why should you even consider having one? I talk with the remarkable Sharon Muza about how doulas make a difference, no matter the type of birth.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we're going to be talking about birthdulas. |
| 0:18.3 | Often considered as personal birth fairies, doulas can significantly improve |
| 0:22.7 | birth experiences. What are the proven benefits and why should you even consider having one? |
| 0:27.5 | Today I'll be talking with the remarkable Sharon Mujah about how doulas make a difference |
| 0:32.2 | no matter the type of birth. Stay tuned. |
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| 0:56.4 | The Birthful podcast, talking to maternity pros to inform your intuition. You know, She has classes in providing doula services to hundreds of couples throughout her private practice in Seattle, Washington. |
| 1:40.3 | She is a birth dula trainer at the Simkin Center at Baster University, and she's also a trainer with passion for birth, a Lamas accredited childbirth education program. |
| 1:50.0 | In September 2011, Sharon was admitted as a fellow to the Academy of Certified Childbirth Educators, and since 2012, she's been the community manager, writer, and editor for |
| 2:02.7 | science and sensibility, which is Lamas International's blog for birth professionals. |
| 2:08.2 | If you haven't checked it out, even if it's for birth professionals, and I know you might be |
| 2:12.9 | expectant or new mom, it still has fantastic information. It's filled with solid evidence-based info |
| 2:22.3 | about healthy pregnancy, birth, and beyond. So do, do check it out. Sharon, I'm so happy to have |
| 2:28.8 | you here on the show. Oh, thank you. I'm delighted to be here. So let's start with, I guess, for definition, because there's still a lot of people who don't know what a dole is. |
| 2:41.0 | What is a birth doula? |
| 2:43.0 | Yeah. A birth dula is a person who provides physical and emotional support to a birthing person and their family, |
| 2:55.6 | as well as informational support. They can work with somebody throughout their pregnancies |
| 3:02.6 | and attend their labor and birth, and then often there's a closing of the relationship with a |
| 3:09.0 | postpartum visitor to. There are also postpartum doulas. I'm not one of them, but they're also |
| 3:15.4 | postpartum doulas, and they support a person in their family after the birth in the home as they |
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