Mama Bear Doula Services

Empathy | Advocacy | Empowerment

Serving areas in Central Western Oregon: Eugene/Springfield - Roseburg - Salem - Florence - Surrounding Area

A doula is a professional labor assistant who provides continuous physical, emotional, and educational support as well as advocacy to you and your partner during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.

What is a doula?

Is doula care right for me?

Doulas support all types of births. Whether you are planning to have a hospital, birth center, or home birth, medicated or not, induction, or cesarean birth, you can benefit from having doula care. Doula care is about supporting your informed choices as a birthing person.

Research shows:

People who use birth doulas are:

-Less likely to have a cesarean birth

-Less likely to need pitocin

-Less likely to use any pain meds

-More likely to rate their childbirth experience positively