Birth Doula Care

"Studies have shown that having a doula decreases the overall cesarean rate by 50%, length of labor by 25%, use of oxytocin by 40% and requests for an epidural by 60%." -American Pregnancy Association

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Gem is the current Lead Educator and Head of Curriculum Development at Doula Trainings International, a worldwide premiere doula training organization. In this work, they train doulas as well as lead DTI's incredible team of educators. Gem is a birth care expert with experience deeply accompanying hundreds of reproductive journeys, including

• home birth

• LGBTQ+ parents and creatively structured families

• birthing center (Geburtshaus) birth

• trans* parents

• birth in almost every hospital in Berlin

• first time parents as well as second, third and fourth

• water birth

• induction birth 

• VBAC & VBA2C   

• planned cesarean birth       

• multiples (twins and triplets)

• perinatal loss

and families from all over the world, including Germany, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, Ireland, England, Australia, Israel, Italy, France, Spain, Finland, Holland, Estonia and Iceland.