How can a doula help with fetal positioning?
The doula is a resource for parents. The doula can refer the parents to books, videos, websites and professionals who can give help and advice. The doula can also share what other women have done to help their babies get in a good birthing position. Story telling is a way of sharing the how-tos without giving medical advice. A doula may be able to show parents how the Spinning Babies techniques can be done together. The doula often knows how to implement techniques, and improvise techniques, even at the hospital. Local doula groups may have informational evenings where maternal positioning for comfort and labor progress are shown and tried out. Because the doula listens carefully to the mother and follows the mother’s needs and desires, she doesn’t tell the mother what she must do. Different mothers may have different desires and different coping styles when they hear that their baby may not be in an ideal position for birth. The doula may want the mother to do certain exercises, such
