This Doula Program, targeted to low income pregnant women, provides free perinatal services, including community-based childbirth education classes, labor and delivery support, postpartum care, and instruction focusing on mom/baby attachment, extension of breastfeeding duration, and interconception care. Participants in the program have been shown to have a decreased infant mortality rate, reduced need for medical interventions during labor and delivery, and longer duration of breastfeeding their infants.

AMCHP, 2008

Evidence Rating: I

Cost: Yes

Additional Info:

Topics:

Breastfeeding Other Prenatal Care and Education Reproductive Life Planning/Family Planning

Perinatal Periods:

Postpartum Pre-/Inter-conception Prenatal

Resource types:

Demonstration project Model programs

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