birth workers connect program

A birth doula is a professional trained in childbirth who provides emotional, physical, and educational support to a mother who is expecting, experiencing labor, or has recently given birth. The doula’s purpose is to help women have a safe, memorable, and empowering birth experience.

A postpartum doula provides evidence-based information on such things as infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from birth, mother-baby bonding, infant soothing, and basic newborn care. A postpartum doula is there to help with new family dynamics in those first days and weeks after bringing home a new baby. 

 Certified Lactation Counselors is professional in lactation counseling who has demonstrated the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitudes to provide clinical breastfeeding counseling and management support to families who are thinking about breastfeeding or who have questions or problems during the course of breastfeeding/lactation.