Birth Well Doula

“The trend during the 1980s of designing hospital birth rooms to be more like bedrooms was a good one. However, some of the most important features of bedrooms were omitted - for instance, the ability to prohibit unwanted interruptions or to lower the lights. What is needed for effective labor with lowered levels of stress hormones is a comfortable, dimly lit, cozy space that allows you to access the part of your primitive brain that sets up the process of hormonal ebb and flow and facilitates the smoothest functioning of the normal birth process. We share this need for privacy during labor with virtually all other female mammals.”

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, pp. 241.