For a fully certified, experienced birth doula in Calgary you can expect to pay between $900.00 and $1100.00. For a fully certified, experienced postpartum doula you can expect to pay between $30.00 and $40.00 an hour. We believe that every woman deserves a doula and we work to ensure that anyone who wants a doula can have one.
Your doula is with you for support. Doulas are not medically trained and respect the position of the doctors and nurses within the birth or postpartum team. Your doula is not there to offer medical advice, but to give you emotional, physical, and informational support. We have found that most medical professionals encourage the use of trained and certified doulas.
This is simply not true. The doula works together with the partner to support the labouring woman in the different ways she needs. Please see our Partners and Doulas page for further details on how doulas and partners work harmoniously together.
A doula's main goal is to make this birth a positive experience for you, whatever your definition of positive is. You meet beforehand so she can become familiar with your birth preferences and she works with you to help achieve this as much as situationally possible.
A postpartum doula does not replace your mother or other family support but has a broad range of current knowledge and a skill set that complements the love and care that you receive from family.