"Doula" is a transliteration of the Greek word "Doula", which originally means "women take care of women". "Doula" provides continuous psychological, physiological and emotional support for delivery mothers throughout the labor process, and adopts appropriate technology to help delivery mothers tide over the difficulties of delivery. The support given by Doula is irreplaceable by people around the parturient.
Foreign medical circles often refer to women who have had fertility experience, dedication and delivery experience as "Doula" to guide pregnant women to give birth smoothly and naturally.
In China, most of the domestic doulas are selected from excellent midwives who have had delivery experience. After special course training, they give "one-on-one" delivery guidance to pregnant women, cheer them up, and provide psychological counseling to pregnant women to help them overcome their fears. After the child is born, Doula will also give professional guidance to the new mother on postpartum wound repair, breastfeeding and scientific parenting. This is a doula delivery.
The role of doula delivery: delivery support experts
Doula is called a delivery support expert, who provides psychological, physiological, information and appropriate technical support during the whole delivery process. It is also helpful for parturient and their families to know the progress of the delivery process, provide pregnant women with a variety of pros and cons of information choices, and help them make correct decisions, so as to complete the delivery process safely and successfully.
An important supporter of perinatal health care
Because the requirements of parturient are complicated, besides safety and husband's care and consideration, they also need continuous comfort, encouragement, respect and prenatal care according to individual needs.
Establish confidence in natural childbirth
Doula can observe the parturient with an objective attitude, guide the parturient with scientific methods, and encourage the parturient with kind words and deeds, so that the parturient can eliminate tension and fear and establish normal confidence in childbirth. With Doula around, the pressure on the husband and family is reduced. We can rely on Doula to help the parturient do everything and easily experience the delivery process.
Guarantee maternal autonomy
Doula helps women have a happy and healthy delivery process. By guiding the parturient to choose the safe, comfortable and satisfactory delivery mode, the parturient can obtain scientific knowledge of pregnancy and delivery, information of intervention measures during delivery and advantages and disadvantages of medication.
The Development of Doula Delivery in China In the 1990s, Professor Wang Defen, an expert from the World Health Organization and the First Maternal and Infant Health Hospital, introduced the name and concept of Doula to China for the first time. In order to ensure professionalism, at present, most of the "music guides" in China are selected from excellent midwives, and after training in music guide training classes, they guide the parturients one by one.
At present, domestic Doula only provides services at the first delivery and 2 hours after delivery. During the labor process, Doula observed the labor process, encouraged the parturient, and conducted psychological counseling to help the parturient overcome the fear. Including midwifery and early contact and early sucking after the baby is born.
In the warm family delivery room, accompanied by melodious background music, the expectant mother looks safe, and there is no scene of giving birth like a heartbreaker. On the one hand, her husband accompanied her, on the other hand, he guided her to comfort and encourage her. Soon a baby girl weighing 3500 grams was born smoothly. Can you imagine? This is the whole production process of Doula delivery in China at present.
Health Tips The so-called Doula delivery is to hire professionals with experience in delivery and rich obstetric knowledge to accompany the delivery and provide psychological and physiological expertise in time. These professionals are called Dura. This kind of delivery will bring some help to the parturient and greatly reduce the chance of caesarean section.