Jacqueline Shepard trains for labor support
through role playing in her doula class. Stony
Brook, New York, 1999. Photo © Sylvia Plachy
"When I say support, I mean it in a
really profound sense, in a way that
we don't really give service to people
that much anymore. It means really
putting another person's needs
above your own for a period of time
and for a specific reason."
Jane Arnold, director of the Stony Brook
Midwifery and Doula Practice that supports
expectant and new mothers irrespective of
their ability to pay.
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