What is the difference between a doula and a labor assistant?
The words are interchangeable; a birth doula and a labor assistant both provide the same services: providing informational, emotional, and physical support to a woman and her partner during labor and birth. There are also postpartum doulas that provide emotional and physical support in the client’s home after the birth; they may help with light housekeeping, cooking, babysitting older siblings, and breastfeeding support. (Victoria is a labor doula.
