Choose a Doula Worldwide
February 6, 2007 by Angela White, J.D., breastfeeding counselor
Filed under pregnancy
Several websites help women choose a doula. A doula is one of the cast of breastfeeding support characters who can assist a mother with labor, delivery and/or postpartum non-medical baby care and mother care including breastfeeding.
In alphabetical order, the websites are:
1. http://www.alace.org/ (U.S. and Canada)
ALACE is the Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators. It trains and certifies labor assistants, birth doulas and childbirth educators. Since its formation in 1977, ALACE has trained over 4,500 women. ALACE says:
ALACE is the only one of the five nationally certifying organizations to be developed and guided principally by women — women who …read more
