Doula

So we met with a doula last night, what's a doula you ask? Good question. A doula is a labor coach who meets with you in the third trimester and talks to you about how you want your labor to go and then she is with you the whole time you are in labor and will even come to your house for the early stages of labor. She is suppose to be a guide through the process. The reason I got interested in doulas is there are a bunch of statistics that if you have a doula, you are way less likely to have a C-section, use other medical interventions (like epidurals), and your average hospital stay goes down and success at breast feeding goes up (sounds all good to me). Anyway, we met with one last night and she was very nice and seemed like she would be a soothing addition to the labor room. I'm not sure how many I want to meet before I pick one, but she would deffinitly work.