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Comfort & pain-management techniques: Massage, counterpressure, hip squeezes, breathing techniques, movement, positioning, heat/cold, birth balls, rebozo techniques, and other non-medical comfort measures.
Labor positioning & movement: Helping with position changes, walking, lunges, squats, side-lying positions, hands-and-knees, birth-ball positions, and movements that encourage comfort and labor progress.
Emotional support & reassurance: Providing a calm, encouraging presence, helping manage fear or overwhelm, offering reassurance during difficult moments, and helping maintain a peaceful birth environment.
Continuous labor support: Providing steady physical, emotional, and informational support throughout labor and birth, from early labor through delivery.
Partner support: Helping partners know how to participate, demonstrating comfort techniques, suggesting ways they can provide support, and stepping in when they need food, rest, or a break.
Birth preferences & advocacy support: Helping parents communicate their preferences, understand their options, ask questions, and feel confident participating in decisions with their medical team.
Labor education & information: Explaining common stages of labor, procedures, interventions, terminology, and what may be happening throughout the birth while referring medical questions to the appropriate provider.
Birth environment: Helping create a comfortable environment with lighting, music, aromatherapy when permitted, temperature adjustments, hydration, positioning tools, and other personal comfort preferences.
Cesarean & unexpected-birth support: Providing emotional and practical support when birth plans change, including inductions, assisted births, unplanned C-sections, or other unexpected circumstances.
Immediate postpartum support: Staying after birth to support initial bonding, skin-to-skin, first feeding, basic breastfeeding assistance, partner involvement, and settling the family in before leaving.
Comfort & pain-management techniques: Massage, counterpressure, hip squeezes, breathing techniques, movement, positioning, heat/cold, birth balls, rebozo techniques, and other non-medical comfort measures.
Labor positioning & movement: Helping with position changes, walking, lunges, squats, side-lying positions, hands-and-knees, birth-ball positions, and movements that encourage comfort and labor progress.
Emotional support & reassurance: Providing a calm, encouraging presence, helping manage fear or overwhelm, offering reassurance during difficult moments, and helping maintain a peaceful birth environment.
Continuous labor support: Providing steady physical, emotional, and informational support throughout labor and birth, from early labor through delivery.
Partner support: Helping partners know how to participate, demonstrating comfort techniques, suggesting ways they can provide support, and stepping in when they need food, rest, or a break.
Birth preferences & advocacy support: Helping parents communicate their preferences, understand their options, ask questions, and feel confident participating in decisions with their medical team.
Labor education & information: Explaining common stages of labor, procedures, interventions, terminology, and what may be happening throughout the birth while referring medical questions to the appropriate provider.
Birth environment: Helping create a comfortable environment with lighting, music, aromatherapy when permitted, temperature adjustments, hydration, positioning tools, and other personal comfort preferences.
Cesarean & unexpected-birth support: Providing emotional and practical support when birth plans change, including inductions, assisted births, unplanned C-sections, or other unexpected circumstances.
Immediate postpartum support: Staying after birth to support initial bonding, skin-to-skin, first feeding, basic breastfeeding assistance, partner involvement, and settling the family in before leaving.