Home birth
"Your hands were just there with the drinking straw or the cold cloth. When I felt the need to stand and move about, you devised a rope (from a sheet knotted in a door) with which I could pull during contractions which helped very much."
Women and Infants
"We very much valued how you encouraged us to "hang in there" with regards to our birth preferences. You believed in me more than I believed in myself and this felt very tangible."
Memorial Hospital
"Your presence, calming tone of
voice, "been through it before", moral support for me when I felt like
I would never go through it was the most important."
Newport Hospital
"What I liked the best was knowing that you were my advocate and feeling your passion for your work as well as your willingness to try anything and everything to move things along with the labor."
Women and Infants
"You have a very calming presence
that soothes and invigorates. It was also great to be able to bounce
ideas off of you during the delivery so I could feel confident in my
decisions."
Home birth
"Whenever I put my hand out, you were there. Your verbal encouragement helped me to eventually believe in myself."
Memorial Hospital
"The best part of hiring a doula was that it gave my husband the confidence that he needed to support me in my wishes for Childbirth."
Women and Infants
"What helped me most was helping us hold our vision when the medical team suggested other approaches and coming up with new strategies for encouraging labor along."
South County Hospital
"My husband was fully included in the whole process. We could not have gone through the pain in natural birth without you."
Women and Infants
"I honestly think that I never would have successfully had a natural birth without you there. My husband said he never would have made it through without you."
Women and Infants
"For me, everything was perfect and exactly like we wished."
Women and Infants
"At the hospital, you were like a magic doula fairy - you were everywhere that I needed and always one step ahead."