Receive expert labour and delivery support in hospitals in Toronto and the GTA!

Toronto Birth Doula supports families seeking any kind of birth, including a low-intervention or fully unmedicated labour and birth. With over 10 years of experience, we are proud to create strong partnerships between ourself, our clients and healthcare practitioners. Our job is to facilitate better education, communication, consent between providers and families. We aim to reduce friction when client wishes oppose hospital protocols or policies and facilitate calm, confident birthing!

Obstetricians, Doctors, Nurses and Midwives all look to us with respect due to our extensive experience in the field!

Downtown Toronto based Birth & Postpartum Doula, Leah Jackson of Toronto Birth Doula and Mindful Sprouts is a trained Midwife Assistant — she trained at The Farm Midwife Centre in Tennessee (home of Ina May Gaskin and Spiritual Midwifery). Leah is a ProDoula Certified Childbirth Educator offering private prenatal classes in Toronto and virtually throughout Ontario. Leah has worked in Ontario as a Birth Doula & Postpartum Doula (including Night Doula) provider since training with CAPPA in 2014, before which she has an additional decade of childcare and family support experience!

How to Reduce Unnecessary Interventions in Birth?

Become informed. Understand all perspectives of birth, birth medications, limitations & benefits, when an epidural can be helpful, birth anatomy, fetal positioning, and more. Practice breathing, yoga, and mindfulness tools. While we are not Hypnobabies practitioners, we do use aspects of meditation and focus that are similar to that of Hypnobirthing techniques.

In Toronto hospitals such as Mount Sinai and Sunnybrook, labour & delivery can easily be supported by a doula to facilitate unmedicated labour and birth. These hospitals are rather progressive and understand the benefits of doulas and doula techniques that improve the safety and experience of birth! At some hospitals and with some staff, more self-advocacy and knowing your facts about birth is important! That is why having our Childbirth Educator on your team helps you achieve a natural birth in Toronto hospitals.

Have experienced, professional support and advocacy present during labour & delivery. Birth — while labour can feel long — is a process that happens fast. Having a professional there at your side increases your confidence, helps you make informed decisions, offers opportunity for alternatives, increases the healthcare team’s flexibility and more! At Toronto Birth Doula we offer in hospital childbirth doula support at all hospitals in downtown Toronto, including St. Joe’s, Michael Garron, Sunnybrook, St. Michael’s, Mount Sinai, North York General, and others.

Know when interventions are required or desired. Our Doula services support medicated births just as much as we support unmedicated births. Sometimes, the informed decision is to have an epidural, use nitrous oxide, or what have you. What is important is that the choice is yours and things aren’t just happening to you. You are an active decision maker in your birth, from an informed, holistic, and evidence-based lens. Where medication or intervention is required, the doula adapts and supports in a different way. Facilitating fetal passage with positioning on the hospital bed, applying acupressure to labour induction points, etc.The doula also helps clients accept, mindfully, their birth experience as it unfolds.

Learn about our Toronto Birth Doula Services, based in downtown Toronto and serving the GTA!