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What's a doula? Find out at Iowa City event
Since May is “International Month of the Doula,” the Iowa City Doulas are taking the time to highlight this growing profession.
Doulas offer a variety of services that allow all women to receive the care they deserve during the time from pregnancy through birth and the early postpartum period.
Trudi Shafer, a certified midwife, also working as a doula, left, looks at one-week old Evan DeRosa and his mother Jennifer Aug. 6, 2000 in Davenport, Iowa. A doula works with the family throughout the pregnancy and afterward to help guide and comfort them through the experience. (AP Photo/Quad-City Times, Jeff Cook)
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