Doctors, Midwives & Doulas

If I am giving birth with a midwife, why do I need a doula?
Your midwife is a medical professional. She is responsible for concentrating on the medical needs of you and your baby. If you are giving birth in a hospital, your doctor, nurse and midwife may be also caring for other women in labor. Your doula is by your side from the moment you call her to attend you in labor until after your baby is born. She provides you with continuous care.

My doctor said I do not need a doula. Why should I have one?
Unless you doctor volunteers to sit with you throughout your entire labor, massage your feet, climb into the shower and hold you up, apply counter pressure to your aching back, help you balance on the birth ball, wipe your lady-parts and change your sheets, run and fetch you cool drinks, feed your husband, mop your brow, help bathe you after your baby is born and take those first newborn photos, you may wish to hire a doula.