Camera pans around a hospital room. It is dim, only the light behind and above the bed is on. Noone is on the bed. A nurse is off to the side checking a monitor. A husband in crouched in a corner rummaging through a back pack, looking for something. The camera pans back and forth slowly then tilts down to the bed where we can see hands and forearms, belonging to a woman , holding up the person who is the camera’s perspective.
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Camera pans around a hospital room. It is dim, only the light behind and above the bed is on. Noone is on the bed. A nurse is off to the side checking a monitor. A husband in crouched in a corner rummaging through a back pack, looking for something. The camera pans back and forth slowly then tilts down to the bed where we can see hands and forearms, belonging to a woman , holding up the person who is the camera’s perspective.
f there is one thing health care providers (doctors, nurses, midwives and, yes, even doulas) should never say to a pregnant or labouring woman is “I’m going to…” If I can act like your doula right now, let me advise that you should be wary of when people tell you what they are going to do when you are pregnant or in labour.
Having a baby is about more than just giving birth and learning to breastfeed. Hamilton Doula is the only doula service provider in the Hamilton area that supports parents in building and maintaining strong and healthy families.
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You deserve to feel safe and supported whether you are giving birth at a hospital or at home, with an OB or midwife, committed to natural birth or planning an epidural.