Dads and Doulas
(Womb Within has its very own doula)
Susan had been thinking about hiring a doula to support her goal of an unmedicated, low-intervention birth. Her husband, Jeff, on the other hand, wasn’t so sure. He felt like having a stranger at what he considered an intimate experience would be intrusive. He didn’t want someone taking his place. He believed he could support Susan during labor just fine, and didn’t know what a doula could do that he couldn’t. After all, he was going to childbirth classes with Susan, and he could do that ‘hee-hee-hoo’ business just as well as …read more