Take a look at this great read from the MatExp archive by obstetrician Florence Wilcock – whose Lithotomy Challenge enabled her to understand her patients’ experiences, and to gain some insight into the role doulas play in maternity care and the unique support they offer to their clients.
Writing about her experience, Florence said, “I have always understood the importance of support in labour but felt that women could get that from our wonderful midwives and struggled to understand why they wanted a doula too. This experience gave me some inkling of why in some situations a midwife might be focusing on other things and a doula might be able to focus on how the woman is feeling and that alone.”