Labor Support 

The long-awaited time has finally arrived. Primal sounds are erupting from your lungs as you progress in labor, likely ones you've never made or even heard before.

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With seemingly little warning, the relationship you knew with your former body starts to go through its most radical change to date, your metamorphosis into parenthood.

 

The parent that laid dormant inside of you is coursing through your veins with anticipation, as your uterus contracts and your cervix instinctively dilates to an impressive size. 

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You may float away and retreat from reality, or perhaps you will be laser-focused on your goal. 

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Questions may be flooding your mind. 

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• Is my baby safe?

• Is my body performing as it should?

• What is going on??

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When you have questions, they will be answered. If you don't feel that you can go on, your doula will work through obstacles with you. Your doula will surround you in a safe sphere, where although things may seem to be happening quickly, time will literally stand still. 

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Your baby emerges from your womb, crying, wet, messy, covered in an unfamiliar waxy coating. They take their first breaths on this earth, transitioning to air from the sweet, amniotic fluid that they safely floated in prenatally. You exhale. You did it!

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During your labor, our role as doulas is to surround you with dedicated support and compassion on the terms that you decide on. Rather than feeling frustrated, confused, or powerless, you will feel confident, knowledgeable, and empowered!

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Let's be real, we've all heard that birth is beautiful, intense, magical, empowering, surreal...but at WCDoulas we prefer for you to decide what birth is. 

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