Active Labor Birth Services
for women who won't take birth laying down! Also Labor Doula Training Services
- Categories: natural child birth
- Address:
Map
- City, State: Opelika,
Alabama
Country: United States
Postal Code: 0
- Phone:
334-741-9747
Fax:
Not Available
- WebSite:
http://www.doulaval.com/index.html
- Email:
Active Labor Birth Services
Contact: Valerie Staples, CLD CPD CCCE
- Description:
Birth Doula Services
* Initial interview to get to know you and discuss your birth wishes
* Birth plan meeting to discuss and construct your birth plan
* Additional prenatal visit(s) can be scheduled at your discretion
* 24-hour on-call for delivery
* Availability via email/telephone for questions and concerns
* Use of handout binder containing information on pregnancy, birth plans, labor and delivery, breastfeeding and infant care
* Attendance at your birth once active labor has begun until 1-2 hours postpartum
* Initial breastfeeding help at delivery
* Postpartum meeting after delivery
CAPPA training provides the highest quality training and focuses on teaching non-medical comfort measures (massage, positioning, breathing, relaxation, etc.), how to assist the laboring mother and her support team emotionally, and how to start and maintain a doula practice. This training is one step to certification as a labor doula with CAPPA.
Other topics covered at the labor doula training:
* The significance of birth to the mother
* Massage techniques for labor
* Pain medications used for labor
* Birth planning
* Difficult labors
* Communication with medical professionals
* The doula's role in cesarean and VBAC
* Contracts and marketing
Val Staples, CLD CPD CCCE is the director of CAPPA's Doula Programs. She has been a labor doula for fourteen years, and provides labor support to parents in the central eastern Alabama and western Georgia region.
- Online Ordering:
No