Breastfeeding is a natural process but it doesn’t always come naturally. Many things are known to help boost breastfeeding success. One of the most powerful ways to position you and your baby for breastfeeding success is to choose a birth team that is skilled and enthusiastic about low intervention/low-tech birth. Their expertise in natural birth will help you both emerge from your birth empowered, feeling your best, and without needing a lot of extra recovery from being ‘done to’, all of which protects your baby’s instincts and ability to breastfeed skillfully.  

In an impersonalized health care system, the professional doula has become a tremendous asset for modern birth in any setting. Doulas are experienced, trained, sensitive, labor-support privately hired by families to be with them during the labor and birth of their babies. They provide continuity of care, share knowledge of the normal process of labor and birth, and use their experience to ease the mother/baby’s birth process.

A midwife’s tongue-in-cheek poem, a Dr. Seuss take-off of all the places and ways she helped moms deliver their babies (or catch, as midwives say.)