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Women
accompanied by a doula throughout labor experience a lower cesarean
rate, fewer medical interventions and shorter labors than those
who labor without a doula. These women also feel greater satisfaction
with their birth experience and have better success at breastfeeding.
-From
Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier,
and Healthier Birth by Marshall Klaus, M.D., John Kennell, M.D.,
and Phyllis Klaus, M.Ed., C.S.W, 1992
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