Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Role And Relevance Of Doula In Society

By Karen Hill


When couples decided to marry and live together, most of them are now ready to take the next challenge and stage in their life. They will face different tasks and experiences and one of those is raising children. Of course to do that, a woman must be conceived. And once the woman finally is expecting, she and her partner will surely shed some tears out of happiness. However, one must remember that during pregnancy stage, a woman can become fragile. Her man and also her family should provide her some support. In addition, once the baby is finally coming, a childbirth doula Northern Colorado may certainly help her to fight.

Pregnancy may cause different changes to a female being. She experiences some mood swings and her preference to foods altered as well. Other than that, pregnant women have many things that must be followed and avoided. For example, they must never take some medicines whenever they have some fever because the medication can cause harm to the growing child inside. Foods must also be nutritious to them and a regular visit from an obstetrician may also help them.

Pregnant women will certainly follow the things that they should do and avoid those that are dangerous. In addition, they also need to seek some medical care from some healthcare professionals. It will really be better if they visit an obstetrician during their pregnancy stage. But during the delivery, there is also one professional that is also reliable.

Doulas are there to help those mother-to-bes in the course of childbirth. People might assume that the one in charge for that are the midwives. Unknowingly, some may not know it was the doulas. In fact, their tasks include helping those females in delivery. But they still are different in some ways.

That can be answered by looking at their tasks and responsibilities. During intrapartum stage, midwives will conduct some exams to pregnant females. They aid them as well in thinking and coming up a decision regarding with their birthing, whether they need an anesthesia in the operation or not.

Midwives also teach them some breastfeeding and ways to pacify an infant. Meanwhile, doulas are somehow similar with them since both are quite relevant win this sort of situation. However, doula is more involved in providing emotional support and also physical comforts to those who are expecting.

As you see, they are basically the ones who hold the hand of the mother who was delivering the baby. Before the childbirth, the doulas also informed and debriefed the couples about what would happen during the labor. A doula would also encourage the father during childbirth to apply some comfort techniques. Likewise, he got the freedom to do what he wants so if he likes to break in then he could step in too.

Sometimes, other women experienced a postpartum period in which they get depressed after giving birth to their child. Doulas will provide some emotional support and guidance to the woman while she is in postpartum period. They will also give the family coping mechanisms to help them recover.

There are also two types of doulas which are the postpartum and antepartum. Some even are trained in more than one specific area. Anyhow, these professionals have indeed helped a lot of women to overcome their pregnancy stage.




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