Doula

**Job Summary and Responsibilities**

As a Doula, you'll be responsible for facilitating emotional and informational support, comfort measures and physical coping skills related to labor, birth and immediate postpartum.

Every day you will function as a companion to the laboring/postpartum mother, tending to her emotional needs and physical comfort, and facilitates the support of the mother by the mother's other invited personal support team members, including the father or other family/friends accordingly.

To be successful, you will support the patient in speaking for herself, encouraging informed decision-making, self-advocacy and personal choices.

+ Provides direct non-clinical support to the mother during the process of labor and delivery; stays with patient throughout labor and is on hand during delivery to facilitate communication between the woman, her partner and the clinical care providers.
+ Maintains constant and close proximity to the mo...