Bored214 -“100% worth getting one. There are hospitals where the midwives will not present all the time if they are very busy and will spend their time going from room to room and will sometimes leave the woman on her own. I know someone who’s midwife went out the room thinking she still had time to go, the baby came out and had the cord wrapped around it’s neck and because she was on her own and it wasnt removed immediately on delivery the baby suffered from lack of oxygen and is now severely brain damaged.”
I’m not going to quote your whole post, but I think your attitude is extremely Poor! I happen to agree to one thing -having a Doula is a nice thing. It’s not 100% necessary, but it’s nice to have one. Can e/o afford one? -Probably not.
And your two cases of where a Doula would have or did make a difference are by far Not the norm. Esp. in the case I quoted -the midwife or Doc or PA, doesn’t have to be in the room with you all the time -you aren’t paying them that much for that. It seems that it was the nurse that was negligent, because they are the ones who are constantly with the pt., even though they go in and out -noone has to be there every single second, not even a doula.
Btw, did these two cases occur in countries where they have Socialized medicine?