Doula Support As The "Tour Director" of Birth Planning
You’ve been planning a trip to Paris all of your life. It’s a once in a lifetime moment, and you want to see everything. You read the guidebooks, and you’ve decided what you want to see.
The morning you arrive, you try your best to take in the sights and the colors, the perfect selfie in front of the glass pyramid, but it’s crowded. You can’t find a great angle, or a place to stand. You didn’t think about bringing a better camera. You didn’t realize the perfect Parisian lunch you’d packed wouldn’t be allowed in the entrance.
Once you get into the doors, all of the signs are confusing. You try to look at the map and follow the elevators and corridors to the different attractions you’ve come to see, but you keep getting turned around. You don’t speak the language and can’t find anyone who understands what you need.
Sweaty, hot, tired and disappointed, your trip isn’t turning out the way that it should have. Those guidebooks that you’d bought to prepare you seem fruitless.
As you sit down to get your bearings, you notice a group part through the throngs of people, led by a brightly colored umbrella. The tour guide smiles down at her crowd, all wearing comfortable shoes and walking slowly, calmly taking in the sights. They get into an elevator, pointing out brilliant sculptures you missed because you were so frazzled.
While you’re grateful for their presence, you also wish you could join them!
Having a baby is as overwhelming as trying to perfectly plan a trip of a lifetime. If your birth planning is starting to feel like impossible logistics to coordinate, and you’d rather be freed up the day of to use the headway preparations of having a professional guide and support you in your birth preferences, we can help.
After all, a doula is a tour guide to the birth process.
A doula can remind you what to pack - and what you won’t need.
A doula knows how to navigate around your hospital or birth center, who to call and when and where to place supplies and fill up that birth pool for your home birth.
Most importantly, a doula can take care of so much of this while you and your close ones concentrate on the emotions, sensations and work that surrounds your once in a lifetime moment.
Because while there are books and classes, nothing comes close to having support right by your side during your big day.
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