Labor of Love

DONA-trained labor doula and CAPPA-trained postpartum doula, member of DONA (Doulas of North America) and CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association), and volunteer doula with Chicago Volunteer Doulas. Related training in massage, acupressure, rebozo, yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, and breastfeeding. Experienced in childbirth, home birth, breastfeeding, attachment parenting, and babywearing. Doulas are professional labor and postpartum assistants, experienced in childbirth, providing continuous emotional and physical support to the laboring mother before, during, and after childbirth. Labor doulas help mothers by providing comfort measures and pain-coping techniques throughout labor and birth. Postpartum doulas help the mother by providing education and assistance with postpartum issues such as breastfeeding, swaddling, sleeping, calming, diapering, babywearing, postpartum exercise/yoga, nutrition, and sibling care.