Desconhecido: This has been a decades-long struggle for these women.
Desconhecido: There are studies that show.
When a doula accompanied prenatal care, when a doula accompanied the birth, violence was lower, the cesarean rate was lower, and suffering was less.
Desconhecido: And the gratitude of women at such an important moment of bringing life into the world was greater.
Desconhecido: Only I know, sometimes — and it wasn't once... it wasn't twice or three times — instances of obstetric violence, and because we didn't have someone to accompany us who could, among other things, work on our psychological well-being.