plural doulas
: a person trained to provide advice, information, emotional support, and physical comfort to a mother before, during, and just after childbirth
Research shows that childbirth does go more smoothly with a doula: labor is 25 percent shorter, the need for epidural pain relief is 60 percent less and the Caesarean section rate is reduced by half.—
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So since their inception, doulas have largely worked outside the view of the government.
—Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Watching from the front row, mom Trina Maxwell, who owns a birthing doula business, is proud of how her daughter took a major disappointment and turned it into something not only positive but unique and inclusive.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Volunteers will change bedding, handle donations, clean laundry and serve as death doulas.
—Jack Rodriquez-Vars, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025
She's since expanded her career and is a birth doula, writer and podcast host with her wife.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 18 June 2025
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Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Watching from the front row, mom Trina Maxwell, who owns a birthing doula business, is proud of how her daughter took a major disappointment and turned it into something not only positive but unique and inclusive.
—Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
Volunteers will change bedding, handle donations, clean laundry and serve as death doulas.
—Jack Rodriquez-Vars, Sacbee.com, 19 June 2025
She's since expanded her career and is a birth doula, writer and podcast host with her wife.
—Caroline Blair, People.com, 18 June 2025
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“Doula.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doula. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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doula
noun
dou·la
ˈdü-lə 
: a woman experienced in childbirth who provides advice, information, emotional support, and physical comfort to a mother before, during, and just after childbirth
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