Why Use a Birth Doula?

Women who use a "non-hospital employee" (i.e., Doula) for labor support were:

• 26% less likely to give birth by cesarean section
  

• 41% less likely to give birth with vacuum extraction or forceps
  

• 28% less likely to use any analgesia or anesthesia
  

• 33% less likely to be dissatisfied with or negatively rate their birth experience.
  

Findings of Hodnett's et al meta-analysis of 15 trials of continuous labor support from N. America, Europe, and Africa

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