Doula Basics
A non-medical professional who provides emotional, physical, and informational support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
What is a doula?
The four words represented by the acronym PAIN.
What are Purposeful, Anticipated, Intermittent, and Normal?
The number of stages in labor.
What are three stages?
Positioning the knees wider apart can help open this portion of the pelvis.
What is the pelvic outlet?
The eye ointment routinely administered to newborns after birth.
What is erythromycin?
The type of support that distinguishes community-based doulas and is particularly important in marginalized communities.
What is relationship-driven support?
The three R's that can help a laboring client enter "Labor Land."
What are Relaxation, Rhythm, and Ritual?
During the first stage of labor, the cervix is doing these two things.
What are dilating and effacing?
This position is commonly recommended for back labor.
What is hands-and-knees?
The infection erythromycin eye ointment was originally intended to prevent.
What is gonorrhea?
Evidence suggests people with continuous doula support are less likely to experience this surgical birth.
What is a cesarean birth?
This theory suggests that touch, pressure, and massage can decrease the perception of pain.
What is Gate Control Theory?
The cervical dilation that marks the beginning of the second stage of labor.
What is 10 centimeters?
Squatting, standing, and lunging all use this force to aid fetal descent.
What is gravity?
The vitamin routinely given after birth to help prevent serious bleeding.
What is Vitamin K?
This is something doulas do not perform because it falls outside their scope of practice.
What are medical procedures or clinical assessments?
A woven Mexican shawl often used for comfort measures and positioning during labor.
What is a rebozo?
The stage of labor during which the placenta is delivered.
What is the third stage?
This type of labor position places one leg differently than the other to create pelvic space.
What is an asymmetrical position?
The condition that Vitamin K administration helps prevent.
What is Vitamin K Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB)?
The three forms of support that define the doula role.
What are emotional, physical, and informational support?
Massage, hydrotherapy, movement, and counterpressure are examples of these.
What are non-pharmacological pain relief methods?
The longest stage of labor for most birthing people.
What is the first stage of labor?
Knees-in pushing can help create more room in this area of the pelvis.
What is the pelvic outlet?
The vitamin newborns are naturally born with low levels of.
What is Vitamin K?