Chatham-Kent Birth Services

Chatham-Kent Birth Services offers Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula services. A doula is a trained professional experienced in childbirth who provides women and partners with continuous emotional, physical, and informational support before, during, and after the birth of your baby. We are able to support you if you are low risk or high risk, using a midwife or doctor, planning a homebirth or hospital birth. Doulas work with clients who want to avoid medications, as well as those clients who are planning to use medications. Chatham-Kent Birth Services founder, Emily Hime, is a DONA International Trained Doula who offers support before, during, and after birth allowing women and their partners to experience the birth they envision for themselves. Studies show that Doula's: - reduce the rate of medicated births -reduce the rate of medical interventions (such as C-sections, episiotomies, use of forceps, induction) -reduce the risk of tearing -shorten the length of labour -reduce the risk of postpartum depression -increase the success of breastfeeding - Increase overall satisfaction with birth Doulas not only support mothers, but also partners and other family members involved in the birth. "If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it" - Dr John H Kennell