birth coach
Delivery room guide
A birth coach is a person who provides emotional support, physical comfort, and guidance to a woman during labor and delivery.
The role may be filled by a partner, family member, friend, or trained professional such as a doula.
The coach helps with breathing techniques, positioning, and advocacy: Her husband served as her birth coach.
- doulaTrained childbirth support person
- midwifeChildbirth assistance professional
- labor supportAssistance during childbirth
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
- deliveryConveyance of goods
contractions · breathing · breathing exercises · pushing · push through · support · prenatal · childbirth · hospital · epidural · pain management · natural · partner · encouragement · you've got this · almost there · massage · warm compress
- birth attendantsdoula
- pregnancypregnancy, pregnant, prenatal care, due date, weeks
- childbirthcontractions, labor, pushing, dilation, crowning
- birth professionalsmidwife, doula, obstetrician, OB-GYN, nurse midwife
- Prenatal Educationprenatal education, prenatal classes, prenatal class, childbirth classes, childbirth education
- baby prepbaby shower, prenatal classes, lamaze class, baby registry, baby clothes
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Childbirth physician
absent father · surgeon · anesthesiologist · attending physician · hospital administrator
birth coachhospice worker
Cares for dying patients
death doula · grief counselor · funeral director · hospice nurse · bereavement counselor
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