Marie J. Taylor

‘However… continuous care has become the exception rather than the rule’ across the WHOLE world.

That means fathers to be, birth partners to be need to step up.
So I wrote my book to do exactly this. For people who haven’t even heard of the word doula they can DIY Doula.

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Happy World Doula Week!

We’re sending hugs to all our doula friends this week, along with a reminder of this Cochrane review, which evidences the effectiveness of the kind of continuous support in labour that doulas can provide.

“Historically, women have generally been attended and supported by other women during labour.

However, in hospitals worldwide, continuous support during labour has often become the exception rather than the routine.” (Bohren et al 2017).

So a team of Cochrane reviewers set out to, “…assess the effects, on women and their babies, of continuous, one‐to‐one intrapartum support compared with usual care, in any setting.”

They looked at the results of 26 trials involving 15,858 women and carried out in 17 different countries.

And the results?

“Continuous support during labour may improve outcomes for women and infants, including increased spontaneous vaginal birth, shorter duration of labour, and decreased caesarean birth, instrumental vaginal birth, use of any analgesia, use of regional analgesia, low five‐minute Apgar score and negative feelings about childbirth experiences.

We found no evidence of harms of continuous labour support.” (Bohren et al 2017).

You can read the full Cochrane review at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6483123/

And if you’re looking for birth information, I have a website and several books that will help you make the decisions that are right for you. Including who you might want with you to support you in labour and help you on your journey.

I'm at https://www.sarawickham.com

Bohren MA, Hofmeyr GJ, Sakala C et al (2017). Continuous support for women during childbirth. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2017 Jul 6;7(7):CD003766. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD003766.pub6. PMID: 28681500; PMCID: PMC6483123.

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