What is the difference between the Doula, the hospital nurse and midwife?
The Doula provides non-medical labor support, education and comfort techniques as well as birth education before the birth as well as postpartum education, all in the comfort of your home as well as the hospital. You meet the hospital nurse when you reach the hospital and are assigned to a room. Hospital nurses can be awesome but usually have a lot of paperwork and medically necessary duties that they are responsible for during labor. Midwives are medical practitioners that provide complete obstetrical services and deliver your baby, they meet and examine you in the office and are intermittently there throughout the labor until its time to deliver the baby. The birth process takes team work and every professional plays an important part.
