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Ten questions about Doulas and Childbirth

Ten common questions about Doulas and Childbirth

1. What is a doula?
is a person trained and experienced in birth who provides continuous physical support, emotional and informative to the mother before, during and after delivery.

2. Where does the word "doula"?
comes from ancient Greek and means "servant of women."
Throughout history and in much of the world, used the figure of a woman who provides support to other women in childbirth, and providing emotional support icontínuo, helping to make you feel better.

3. What effect does the presence of a doula during labor?
Numerous clinical studies have found that the presence of a doula during labor:
- tends to result in shorter delivery processes and fewer complications
- reduces negative feelings about the experience of childbirth
- reduces the need for inductions, forceps or vacuum
- reduces pain relievers requests and epidural
- reduces cesarean indicencia

4. What effect does the presence of the mother of a doula?
When a doula is present during and after childbirth, women are more satisfied with their experience more positively evaluated their babies, have fewer cesareans / needs of medical interventions, and less postpartum depression.

5. What effect does the presence of the doula about babies?
Some studies have shown that babies born with doulas present tend to decrease their hospital stays / special care, maman more easily and enjoy more affectionate mothers in the postpartum period.

6. How I can find a doula in my area?
There are several online directories of doulas, as Doulas.es which is a state or through forums such as Natural Parenting .

7. What does it cost to hire a doula?
is generally affordable. The price varies from a doula to another and from one province to others. Furthermore, not all doulas are the same services (there are pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum, childbirth and postpartum). Some associations, such as Doulos Mares do have a unit price of some specific services, such as postpartum (300 € with 14-hour visit) .*

8. Does it replace a doula a midwife?
No. Doulas do not replace or medical personnel or nurses or midwives. Doulas do not provide medical assistance or medical tasks such as taking the pressure or temperature, do fetal monitoring, vaginal exams practice or providing postpartum clinical care. They are for comfort and support to the mother and facilitate communication between it and medical professionals.

9. Will a doula make decisions for me?
A doula does not make decisions for clients, nor involved in clinical care. She provides information and emotional support, respecting the decisions of women.

10. Does the presence of a doula make my partner feel innecesáreo?
No, a doula provides support to two, both mother and father. It also plays a crucial role in helping the partner to feel part of childbirth and who also are comfortable.



Source: International Donate
Blog * Extracted from Judit Torres

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The presence of a doula significantly reduces possibility of cesarean

Doulas in Spain (including doulas search) www.doulas.es Donate
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The presence of a doula significantly reduces the likelihood of cesarean

In a study published in June 2008 *, the researchers found that the continued presence of a doula during labor, decreased the chances of cesarean section and reduced the need for epidural.
The control group did receive care from a doula ended in cesarean section 13.4%, compared with 25% of the group not receiving the assistance.


* McGrath, Susan K., Kennell, John H.1. Birth, Volume 35, Number 2, June 2008, pp. 92-97 (6)

Source: Midwifery Today E-news

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What's in my food? When exposure to pesticides is too

"The Chronic health effects may result from exposure to low doses of pesticides over time. Even extremely low doses of pesticides, particularly during fetal development and childhood infacia are related to cancer, birth defects, developmental delays, asthma and Parkinson's disease. "

" effects are synergistic when one + one = much more than two, because the effect of the second chemical amplifies the effect of the first chemical (chemical cocktail effect). "

" 8 different residues were detected in a sample of strawberry. 680 of 726 tested positive for residue. "

" How much pesticide is TOO MUCH?
depends on many factors: the type of pesticide, exposure time, the person ... On the U.S.
What's on my food? can see a list of products (right vertical bar) and see what types of pesticides found in each food. For example, one would stop buying oranges into the mainstream to acknowledge the high probability of finding residue on them.
Keep in mind that the data belongs to the American market, where pesticides are less regulated than in Europe , partly because of pressure from companies like Monsanto .

That our children consume organic food drastically reduces the amount of pesticide residues in your body, and above all, difficult to fatal chemical cocktail quoted at the beginning of the story.

About:
* "Foods with dangerous chemicals" Original News vidasana
* "Exposure to Pesticides Is Lowered When Young Children Go Organic" The New York Times
* A bad mix: Exposure May be "safe" with only one chemical at a time. " Environmental Health News
* " Synergistic Disruption of external male sex organ development by a mixture of four anti-androgens " in Environmental Health Perspectives

other articles in Parenting Today:
* "partial steps to make our family diet greenest"
* Movie "Our children will accuse us"
* article "Transgenic threat to babies'

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