Doulas and midwives are both priceless assets to your birth team. As your healthcare provider, your midwife will handle the clinical responsibilities during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and postpartum, while your doula provides information, as well as physical and emotional support. Midwives and doulas have differing but complementary roles. Both will support and encourage the healthiest birth practices, ensuring a more satisfying childbirth experience for your family.
Choosing your birth team is so important because it will directly effect your experience of your birth and the outcome. Here’s a guide of 18 questions to ask when you interview doulas to attend your birth…
Choosing your midwife will have a direct effect on your birth experience and your outcome. It’s highly advised to interview many midwives in your area before choosing who would be best at your birth. When doing your interviews, here are excellent questions to ask…
After a swift labor, a baby girl named Finley was born at home in the water surrounded by her mom, dad, older sister, and grandmother.
I rarely get photos of me photographing births, so these are rare and special moments captured of me at a hospital birth just before my own labor and a home birth just after my baby was born.