A Bit About Your Doula Team

Why choose New Life Doulas?

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We at New Life Doulas passionately believe a team approach to pregnancy and birth support offers the best care for families, doulas, and the collective birth community.

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Working with a doula team, families benefit from having the vast experiences of each team member to draw from throughout your pregnancy. Some of the skills your New Life Doulas team offers, as you read above, are postpartum nursing experience, Spinning Babies and Evidence Based Birth trainings, DONA doula trainings, among many others skills. From the time an expectant family hires New Life Doulas, you will have access to both doulas and our array of experiences.

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With a team of doulas supporting you, you are nearly guaranteed to know the doula supporting you at your birth. When a team of experienced doulas is at the ready, your chance of having a doula you don’t know attend your birth is drastically minimized. When you hire a team, your back-up and helper doulas are built-in and are all women you have been working with during your pregnancy. With New Life Doulas, you can always expect the doula standing by your side to be fresh and ready to offer the highest quality of support.

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Doulas benefit from a team approach in multiple ways. At New Life Doulas, we believe we as humans were created to function in community. Your doula team draws both personally and professionally from working closely with other like-minded doulas. We receive great encouragement and push toward growth when working as a team. We each find birth work and the art of supporting women to be a calling and a great joy; however, the realities of living constantly on-call takes a toll on our own families. With the support of a team, we can lovingly serve families through pregnancy and birth as well as plan in quality, uninterrupted time with our own children and families.

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The weight of a constant on-call work, unfortunately can lead to many quality doulas exiting the field prematurely or never even getting into the work. By working as a team, we are modeling sustainability in birth work to help encourage other women to enter our field despite perceived hurdles. When more women enter and stay in birth work, the collective St. Louis birth community will grow and all birthing families will benefit.

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We at New Life Doulas are honored to be considered for your support team. Being invited into your birth space is a privilege we do not take lightly. Your doula team trusts the birthing process and innate knowledge of a woman’s body – and it would be our joy to help you discover what your body is capable of! We also believe in an evidence-based approach to birth, and value the appropriate use of modern medicine when balanced with your own goals and values. When you hire us, know that we will each be working hard to help you achieve a positive, victorious, and empowered birth experience – whatever that looks like for you and your growing family.