The Stork's Apprentice
Doula Services
Antepartum - Birth - Postpartum
Helping with the most important delivery of all- yours!
The Stork’s Apprentice provides caring birth support services to expectant families of all kinds throughout the Las Vegas & Henderson area.
A Doula:
- Educates parents-to-be about childbirth
- Provides support services prenatally in certain circumstances
- Assists mom and her partner in preparing for and carrying out plans for birth
- Stays with the woman throughout the labor
- Provides emotional support, physical comfort measures and an objective viewpoint, as well as helping the mom and her partner get the information they need to make informed decisions
- Facilitates communication between the laboring woman, her partner and her clinical care providers
- Allows the woman's partner to participate at his or her comfort level
- Follows up postpartum to check on the new family
® The Stork's Apprentice March 11, 2013
“As a modern society we make more demands on first time fathers that exceed those made on medical students…we ask of them the equivalent of taking six lessons on football, then starting for a professional football team on Sunday.”
– The Doula Book