How Will She Remember It?

She’s printed the phrase on doula T-shirts to remind hospital staff to be sensitive to laboring moms. “When you start focusing on a woman’s experience of birth and not just the issue of natural childbirth,” Peggy Simkin says, “it opens up a whole new world.”

Known as the mother of the doula movement, Simkin has trained thousands of these caregivers to provide physical and emotional support for women during birth — the only intervention scientifically shown to decrease time in labor (by 25 percent) as well as to reduce Cesarean-section rates by a third.

Thanks for a great article Paula Bock