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👆🏼 This is something most of us who support

👆🏼 This is something most of us who support birthing people are hearing right now - people torn between knowing the importance of and wishing for doula support but nervous to leave their current care provider.

Your OB might seem like a nice person, might have a good bedside manor, and you might have even been with this OB for years... BUT if they are not currently advocating for you to have doula support in the hospital as part of your care team, the fact of the matter is that they really don't care about evidence based birthing practices or your birthing experience.

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologist states the importance of doula support many times. One being:

Evidence suggests that, in addition to regular nursing care, continuous one-to-one emotional support provided by support personnel, such as a doula, is associated with improved outcomes for women in labor.

So if your doctor says you don't "need a doula" or whatever you are hearing, KNOW that they have ulterior motives for keeping doulas out of the hospital with you. And they are not for YOUR benefit... So who's benefit are they for?

Thinking about it this way - do you still really trust your OBGYN to have your best interest at heart enough to stay in their care during one of the most vulnerable and important times of your life?

Asking for a friend.... Repost @ladoulavita #iDeserveBirthSupport #humanRights #birthRights #birthDoula #doulasAreEssential #doulasAreNotVisitors #birth #childbirth #birthDoula

Are you in the Los Angeles area and thinking of g

Are you in the Los Angeles area and thinking of getting pregnant/currently pregnant? Do you have friends, colleagues, family members who are pregnant? Do you have a heart? Do you like options? Read on!

Hospitals accepting doulas:
- LCOM (Little Company of Mary in Torrence)
- MLK Hospital (Martin Luther King Jr.)
- Providence St. Joe's
- CA Hospital Medical Center

Hospitals NOT accepting doulas:
- UCLA Santa Monica OR Westwood (OBs making less money; hospital midwives report OBs confiscate their patients & 20% transferred to home birth/centers)
- Providence St. Johns (outwardly speaking to keep doulas out: inducing all patients due to “baby is too small”! A prenatal yoga teacher was told by 90% of her students & found out they were all patients of the same group of doctors who clearly care more about their $ and days off; this is still going on)
- Cedar Sinai
- Kaiser Permanente Group
- Good Samaritan
...but they’re allowing high school volunteers & birth photographers float the floor...🤬There is actual data on doulas increasing breastfeeding rates and decreasing inductions and cesarean rates. It’s all about the $ pockets of the Obs with these hospitals!

THIS NEXT PART IS VERY IMPORTANT:

If you want doula support at your birth, you can choose to not give birth at a hospital that will not allow doula support AND you can find a good care provider at a hospital that has your well-being at the forefront + knows the importance of doulas being part of your team.

MLK hospital's L&D floor is midwife led. If you are currently with the UCLA Midwives & you want midwifery care (not med-wifery care) AND your doula, consider switching to midwives at MLK hospital.

@Dareallelucca has a list of great LCOM providers. LCOM has a doula on staff participating in admin decisions.

PMI Group: Dr. Ishimaru, Dr. Sanders, etc.
Dr. Richey
Dr. Carilyn Sparks
Dr. Richard Frieder
Dr. Jamie Liepeles (but not for a vBac)

You are not stuck! Have a hospital birth WITH a doula! Just choose a hospital that supports this. Please share! #iDeserveBirthSupport #humanRights #birthRights #birthDoula #doulasAreEssential #doulasAreNotVisitors #birth #childbirth #birthDoula

Today a group of administrators from @providenceca

Today a group of administrators from @providencecalifornia met with our Doula Task Force to discuss improving care for birthing people and steps to get doulas back in the hospital. We haven’t arrived, but it is great to know that they share our concerns.

@uclahealth @uclaobgyn @cedarssinai @pihhealthgoodsamaritanhospital @pihhealth we’d love to hear a response to our letter! Repost @ladoula

Repost @loveofalittleone ・・・ As influencers

Repost @loveofalittleone
・・・
As influencers & businesses get called out for shady & unethical practices during Covid, let’s start shining a light on Hospitals, specifically L& D.
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•Despite essential worker status, doulas have not been able to support their clients during hospital births since March as hospitals label them as a “visitor”
•Hospitals maintain that for safety, only 1 support person is allowed and no visitors postpartum however several hospitals have offered to sneak in doulas for affluent clients (lookin’ at you St. John’s in Santa Monica)
•Due to this, some birthing people are forced to choose between their birth partner & their doula. Plainly, this is a choice between birthing with an informed, evidenced based advocate or a family member/other parent of baby being born
•Hospitals are often understaffed meaning if the one support person steps out, birthing people are often left to labor alone
•Statistically, having a doula present during birth lowers unnecessary interventions, inductions, cesareans, & routine obstetric violence
•Since Covid, unnecessary inductions, interventions & cesareans have been noted as being on the rise
•The markup for induction meds, intervention equipment, & cesarean surgeries is high & while often paid by insurance, leads to huge profits for hospitals
•Most hospitals do not have proper lactation programs or enough staff trained in proper, biological lactation
•Despite using Covid as an excuse to keep doulas out, some hospitals are allowing private photographers hired by the hospital to visit postpartum rooms to solicit newborn photos at cost to client (how is this not an unnecessary “visitor”?)
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What do the above facts mean when pieced together?
That’s for you determine.
I could tell you that the business you pay thousands of dollars to perform a service is overcharging & under delivering
I could mention the trend of obstetrics using birthing bodies to their benefit is continuing
I could tell you that you’re worthy of more than being subject to routine & normalized trauma
But if you take away anything, it’s that we need to start demanding more for these bodies that create, carry, & deliver life.

✨🤩Taking online orders! 🤩✨ 🔸Greater

✨🤩Taking online orders! 🤩✨
🔸Greater Los Angeles🤰🏻🤰🏾🤱🏻🤱🔸

#childbirth #birth #postpartum #ayurveda #ayurvedicpostpartum #lactation #ayurdoula #healing #nursing #breastfeeding #losangeles #newmothers #motherhood #pregnancy #newborns #babies #ayurvedicChef #mealDelivery #postpartumMealDelivery #ayurvedaMealDelivery #vegan #vegetarian #plantbased #carnivore #nourishBirthPostpartum

Doulas vs. Gyms bit.ly/birthincovid #BreakTheSile

Doulas vs. Gyms
bit.ly/birthincovid
#BreakTheSilence #IDeserveBirthSupport

Please make this article go viral! Link in bio!
Doula support is evidence-based, shown to improve outcomes for every birthing person. When COVID-19 came about, Doulas were restricted from the hospitals to keep the risk of COVID-19 transmission down. After hospitals in other cities started allowing doulas back in, obstetricians at St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica, CA are speaking outwardly to keep doulas out. Other Los Angeles hospitals are doing the same.
In the world of healthcare, hospitals are big business. Hospital beds can turn patients over faster and get more patients in and out of beds when births are rushed and/or scheduled via group inductions and cesareans. Many local doulas are reporting increased pressure for their clients to be induced during the pandemic.

More births and faster births means more money in the hospitals coffers. Since doulas help birthing people advocate for desired births, regardless of timing, the hospital cannot control turnaround thus they make less money. Having a doula in the room may be better for the birthing person but it isn’t good for business from a hospital’s point of view.

#pregnancy #covid19 #covidpregnancy #covidbirth #covidlabor #pregnancy #obstreticviolence #birthrights #humanrights #dignityinbirth #birth #birthdoula #labordoula #doula

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