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From the traditional Greek meaning "woman caregiver ", today's doula is "a woman experienced in childbirth who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to the mother before, during and just after childbirth" ( Klaus, Kennell and Klaus - Mothering the Mother ). The doula's role is to guide parents through the experiences of pregnancy, labour, birth and the early days and weeks with their new baby. Prenatal education includes what to expect during pregnancy, labour and birth...
Breastfeeding in the days following birth is characterised by frequent feedings (often every 1-2 hours). This is absolutely normal and desirable. Here's why: Breastmilk is very rapidly digested. From birth to about 5-6 days, the baby's stomach can only contain 5-7 ml of milk at a time (the size of a marble).
There are now a multitude of studies that show that mothers and babies should be together, skin to skin (baby naked, not wrapped in a blanket) immediately after birth, as well as later. The baby is happier, the baby’s temperature is more stable and more normal, the baby’s heart and breathing rates are more stable and more normal, and the baby’s blood sugar is more elevated. Not only that, skin to skin contact immediately after birth allows the baby to be colonized by the same bacteria as the mother.