Reccomendations and Requirements

Before we get started there are a few important things we’ll need to take care of before we can begin. The most important things are:

• It is very important to ask permission from both your primary OBGYN physician or midwife AND your delivery hospital or birth center for doula services PRIOR to booking.
• I am formally trained and certified as a Doula. Be sure to inform your physician/midwife about this when asking for their permission. I am aware of the importance of their roles, I understand sterile fields, emergent situations, and I am educated in my role on your birth team.

You do not want to risk not asking permission, only to find out that I cannot come into the birth room on the day of delivery. Most hospitals have a policy limiting the number of people in the room during delivery, and this is especially true since the beginning of Covid-19. You can easily learn your birthing location’s policies by calling and asking them directly.

I often get caught up with getting into a birth center at night because they are not informed I am coming, or I am not on the list of approved visitors ahead of time. Letting your hospital/birth center and your doctor/midwife know ahead of time that I will be arriving makes things run as smooth as possible and helps ensure that I get to you quickly.

A Doula’s job is to help provide a safe, memorable, and empowering birthing experience!